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Peterson’s neighbor and close friend Sharon Bychowski said volunteers will focus searches this weekend on three places police have identified as areas of interest.

“We’re going to start out with a limited search this weekend, with some ground searches until we can get the boats back in the water and other equipment,” Bychowski said.

Bychowski did not name specific areas to be searched this weekend, but said her son, Roy Taylor, will be coordinating the searches. Calls to Taylor were not immediately returned Wednesday afternoon.

This weekend’s search will be the first since the group Friends of Stacy Peterson held a fund raiser March 2 in Merrionette Park. The event raised more than $11,000 to go toward the family’s search efforts.

Peterson’s friends, headed by Bolingbrook village clerk Carol Penning, are in the beginning stages of planning another fund raiser May 17 at Ditka Dome in Bolingbrook.

http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/bolingbrook/homepage/x691148017

 

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From City Hall to Tomczak to Savio case, a tangled web
By John Kass

An opinion piece, but interesting, nonetheless.

"We called Tomczak for comment, about the Savio evidence, Tomczak's relationships with Peterson and Claar and other matters.

"Maybe I'll send my statement over, and if you don't print the whole thing and say you did print the whole thing, I'll call a press conference and tell the other reporters what you did not print," he said.

Well, three days after his latest threat, still no statement. Too bad. The Savio case he wouldn't charge has since been ruled a homicide. Glasgow calls it a murder investigation. A special grand jury is investigating that and Stacy Peterson's disappearance."

 

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Boycott bar if Drew's there: Stacy's pals
Known to frequent tavern, he scoffs at plan
By Joe Hosey March 14, 2008

Drew's favorite 'journalist' reports:

"Friends of missing mom Stacy Peterson have called for the boycott of a local tavern if they let her husband inside.

"Everybody stop going there," the Petersons' next-door neighbor, Sharon Bychowski, said of the Bolingbrook bar Tailgaters."

"But Peterson said he would not be stopped by any boycott: "Like that would bother me. They're not going to change anything that I do.""

 

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Group calls for boycott of tavern
FRIENDS OF STACY PETERSON
March 14, 2008
By JOE HOSEY Staff Writer

A longer more complete version of the previous article.

 

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Joe must be working on his book today. Here is a third article which incorporates some of the material from the first two:

Attorney says neighbor has 'vendetta'

""It is clear that any evidence or testimony they could have given against Drew is now so badly tainted by their statements and actions as to be of no value in any prosecution of Drew," Brodsky said. "Their preoccupation with Drew’s personal life is proof that they care more about pursuing an ill-advised vendetta against Drew than about finding Stacy, or law enforcement pursing a fair and untainted investigation of her disappearance."

Bychowski scoffed at Brodsky’s claim.

"Yeah, we’re terrible people," she said."

"Bychowski was also puzzled by Brodsky’s accusations, asking, "(We have) a vendetta about finding Stacy?""

"Brodsky said Peterson will not be heading back to Tailgater’s anyway. He is forgoing the Bolingbrook tavern for the more refined atmosphere of Gibsons in Chicago.

"He’ll be in a much nicer place," Brodsky said, "and he’ll be able to meet a much nicer class of people.""

 

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For months, Drew Peterson has been an official suspect in the disappearance of his wife and the subject of speculation about the drowning death of one of his previous wives.

But since Stacy Peterson vanished in late October and authorities reopened the investigation into the 2004 death of Kathleen Savio, Peterson has not set foot in a courtroom in either case.

That is expected to change Monday. At 9:30 a.m. Peterson is scheduled to appear in a Joliet courtroom on a matter concerning the disappearance of his wife. The issue on which he will appear is relatively minor -- the planned return of his cars, computers and other items that police seized as part of their investigation of his wife's disappearance -- but it may nevertheless be significant.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=6021103

 

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A group dedicated to uncovering the mystery of where Stacy Peterson went is preparing to resume its volunteer effort to find the missing mother.

"We can't wait to get out and find Stacy," said Sharon Bychowski, a member of the board of directors for the group the Friends of Stacy Peterson.

Bychowski's son, Roy Taylor, met with the state police Friday.

"The Illinois State Police are more than willing to work with us," Taylor said. "They will be communicating with the searches for Stacy Peterson and utilizing our resources."

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/843787,4_1_JO15_PETERSON_S2.article

 

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Peterson disappeared Oct. 28. State police consider her disappearance a "potential homicide" and named her husband, Drew Peterson, a suspect in the case. Drew Peterson has not participated in the volunteer searches.

Taylor said he hopes to begin the searches next weekend, weather permitting, and that he "will try to release information (on upcoming searches) early every week until we find her or the season ends."

http://cbs2chicago.com/westsuburbanbureau/stacy.peterson.lisa.2.678081.html

 

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Lawsuit could alter Savio estate
March 18, 2008
By STEWART WARREN STAFF WRITER

"JOLIET -- On April 17, Will County Judge Carmen Goodman will consider the possibility of reopening Kathleen Savio's estate.

If she allows that to happen, lawyers for Savio's family could begin investigating the way her estate was handled and the distribution of her assets, including thousands of dollars from the sale of a home and a business she owned with her ex-husband, Drew Peterson.

In the end, a wrongful death lawsuit might be filed, those lawyers said Monday morning."

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"In February, some members of Savio's family filed documents in court asking a judge to reopen her estate. They wanted to take control of it and remove Carroll as executor while considering the possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit. Other members of Savio's family also filed a similar request, and now both sides are working together, explained Lawrence Varsek of Joliet, one of the lawyers representing the relatives."

 

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Drew gets his wheels
March 18, 2008
By JOE HOSEY Staff Writer

"A judge told Drew Peterson he could have his cars back by 9 a.m. Tuesday. Peterson showed up at five minutes after the hour.

"Just picking up the car, you know,” Peterson said after he and an unidentified friend showed up at District 5 State Police headquarters to reclaim his GMC Denali and Pontiac Grand Prix."

"On Tuesday, Peterson seemed happy just to get his vehicles back. He greeted a state police special agent and attempted to shake his hand, but the agent snubbed him.

“That’s what I expected,” said Peterson, a retired Bolingbrook cop who abruptly quit after 29 years on the force when he came under scrutiny for his wife’s disappearance. “No hug, no kiss.”"

 

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Drew Peterson's lawyer says Bolingbrook neighbors harassing ex-cop

Article discusses the so-called harassment and a funny incident with the garage door opener

"Bychowski counters that she's the one being threatened. She said Peterson, who has a garage door opener that she gave to Stacy, was opening and closing her garage door to irritate her Tuesday. She changed the garage's programming.

"He's trying to torment me because I'm not giving up on finding Stacy Peterson," Bychowski said. "I'm not now, not ever, giving up on Stacy Peterson."

Brodsky said there was an explanation for the garage door opening."

 

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Tensions on Pheasant Chase Court escalated as a second police report was filed in the past five days, and one resident says her life is in jeopardy.

"I fear for my life," said Sharon Bychowski, the best friend and next-door neighbor of missing mom Stacy Peterson.

Stacy's husband, Drew Peterson, is still in the house and Bychowski said that is why she is scared.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/849615,4_1_JO19_PETERSON_S2.article

 

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There's new trouble for Drew Peterson, just a day after he reclaimed his vehicles from Bolingbrook investigators.

One of his neighbors is going to court to file a restraining order against him.

The recent controversy follows the return of two cars to Peterson that were impounded by police investigating the disappearance of his wife, Stacy.

http://www.nbc5.com/news/15639627/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

 

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Drew Peterson's former friend said he identified gun for Illinois police
Peterson allegedly still had pistol after authorities seized his weapons

"A former friend of Drew Peterson said Wednesday that he was called into an Illinois State Police station and asked to identify a gun that Peterson allegedly still had after authorities seized his weapons."

"But Mims said police apparently missed at least one gun. The night of a search in November, Mims said Peterson showed him a folding gun that was strapped to his leg. Mims, who later had a falling out with Peterson, said he alerted police and media outlets about the weapon a few weeks ago.

"Today, Illinois State Police recovered a pistol that they think was Drew's. And it is his pistol," Mims said. "It's the same one that he pulled out when I was staying at his house. They'd already seized his other guns.""

"Mims said Wednesday that police also showed him a .357-caliber pistol and asked whether he could identify it as Peterson's. Mims said that he couldn't say for sure."

 

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Police Interested in New Gun

The Will County grand jury today expects to hear from Drew Peterson's mother.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/p...n=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

video report at link

 

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Family members are fighting Peterson's mother's subpoena. They said she suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

http://www.nbc5.com/news/15656874/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

 

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Drew Peterson's parents don't know what happened to his missing fourth wife.

That's what his mother and stepfather, Betty and Al Morphey, told reporters on Thursday after they testified in front of the Will County grand jury investigating Stacy Peterson's Oct. 28 disappearance.

"I have no idea. Do you?" Al Morphey replied when asked by a reporter if the couple knew where Stacy was.

Neither would comment on what they were asked about during their grand jury appearance, though Betty Morphey said she believed Stacy still could return home safely.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/854042,drew032108.article

 

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Mother, Stepfather Called Before Grand Jury; Source Says Additional Gun Has Been Found

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"We hope so," said Betty Morphey as she and her husband walked to their car in a downtown lot.

She later asked a photographer for the pictures he was taking of her.

"We want 10 copies of each," she said. "We didn't do nothing."

Drew Peterson accused the authorities of subpoenaing his mother and stepfather just to bother him.

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Outside the courthouse earlier this week, Brodsky dismissed reports about the existence of an extra weapon that was missed by police.

But sources close to the investigation say there is an extra weapon.

The source says the gun, a Derringer, is now in possession of the Illinois State Police.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/drew.peterson.mother.2.682056.html

 

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Police confiscated a dozen guns from former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson, but say Peterson kept one hidden from investigators in the course of the search for his wife, Stacy Peterson.

CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports the gun is so small it can be concealed in a belt buckle. And a source close to the Stacy Petersen investigation says Drew Petersen concealed a mini-revolver so well in his house that Illinois state police officers never found it, despite the fact that search warrants were executed netting 11 other firearms.

The source says the gun, a Derringer, is now in possession of the Illinois State Police.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/drew.peterson.mother.2.682056.html