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I have seen it reported that the tip to seach this location may have come from a fellow inmate. If that is the case, I wholeheartedly believe it is not a valid one. MOO is that IF Drew actually mentioned this location to a prisoner, it was to see if the inmate would nark and to watch LE running around pursuing this "lead".
Drew Peterson is a former cop, he of all people is very familiar with LE tactics, including talking to cellies, etc. MOO - That man would never in a trillion years tell anything incriminating to another soul, let alone some dude laying in a bunk next him who could use it against him or for personal gain. PERIOD
ETA I also believe Drew is enjoying all the hubbub and renewed media coverage around this search. This man is sick and thouroughly enjoys his time in the spotlight. He is also a narcissist and thinks he is the puppet master, pulling all the strings behind the scene.
I've been busy around here but my mind has been going over everything - LOL...
I feel good about this part of the article:
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But anthropologist Alan Harn believes authorities have a "really good" tip about Stacy Peterson, who disappeared in 2007. He's advised investigators to return to the area near Peoria with a device that gets images of what's underground
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/stacy-peterson-search-found-opossum-bones-20100607
but by the same token I can't believe he really expected people to believe that cadaver dogs who are highly trained animals would hit on opposum bones...
I mean really....this is a "hunting area" and I don't care if you hunt with shotguns, rifles, bow & arrow or cross bow - or whether you are hunting pheasant, duck, deer, rabbit, or possum....when you hit the animal it's going to go down and there will be blood and it will get on the ground....
So why wouldn't the dogs hit each and every square inch of a "hunting area"??
And I agree with Dr Fessel - they left the tent there and guards for opposum bones - I don't think so.....there is something else there and they are going to be back!!
:smile:
JMOO
Thanks Noway, I've got closer photos and the one I provided probably contains the search location as it's expanded. I think it's worth noting on large properties of say 155 acres. When one is sold 5 acres is all a bank will finance. It would be split at 5 acres primary residence and 150 acres land and put on two deeds and financed separately.
Now I believe I'm very close but don't have a totally exact location.
This is one that is in the same city/area as the search but don't know if related in anyway
# Chillicothe Sportmans Club, Peoria IL 61604
I haven't driven by the farm to see if LE was still standing guard
Did the link I posted to the parcel map with IDs showing help at all?
http://i46.tinypic.com/hsoz77.jpg
ETA
Created here, adding layer info from Property Data. You might see if Parcel Address shows up like the Parce ID did.
http://gis.peoriacounty.org/website/external/
Ha, Cherry Baby! Really, the location is only 5 mins from here! Not too much gas involved!
I promise to drive by tomorrow if we haven't learned any additional news.
I wish I knew where the helicopter from from. It circled while they were digging and they followed the LE vehicles and they quickly left the scene. It doesn't have the markings of typical media choppers!
Not getting my hopes up but I saw a helicopter flying over my house towards the direction of the site.
It was the same helicopter that was circling while we watched the newscast and LE leave the scene. It doesn't look like a media chopper -- it's all a beige color ... almost like it's a service helicopter (meaning, army, national guard, etc). Aren't most news channel helicopters brightly colored with their channel on it?
I haven't driven by the farm to see if LE was still standing guard.
It's been suggested that the "inmate" who may be providing information to LE might be Drew's step-brother, Tom Morphey, who was the person who helped Drew move the blue barrel/container from the upstairs master bedroom to Drew's vehicle.
I've done some thinking and research on this and I think he can be ruled out based on what's been reported.
On October 28, 2007 Drew called his step-brother and asked him to help move something at his house. After meeting Tom Morphey at a coffee shop, Drew excused himself, saying he had to run a quick errand and would be back shortly. He gave Tom his cell phone and told him that if it rang, don't answer it. A short time later Drew's cell phone rang and Tom didn't answer it as he was instructed, but noted that the caller ID said "Stacy."
When Drew returned, he took Tom to his house and had Tom help him move what Tom has described as a blue barrel or blue container from the upstairs master bedroom to Drew's Denali. Tom said the container was warm to the touch and he was scared. In the days leading up to this, Tom testified that Drew had tried to coerce him into renting a storage unit in his name and letting Drew use it. Drew told him that Stacy was making trouble and would have to go. Tom put two and two together and figured that Stacy's body was in that container.
Drew drove Tom home, and upon getting home Tom called his neighbor/best friend, Walter Martineck, and asked if he could come over and said that he had to talk to him. Walter has stated in interviews that when Tom came to his house that night he was very upset and scared. He told Walter what had happened, about helping Drew carry that container out of the house and that he thought Drew had killed Stacy and that he just helped Drew move Stacy's body. He said Drew gave him money for his help.
The next day, Tom called Walter and told him he couldn't keep the money Drew gave him.........he felt guilty about helping Drew, and tried to get Walter to take the money. Later that day, October 29, 2007, Tom attempted suicide. Tom's brother, John Morphey called Tom, and when Tom told him what had happened and said he had taken a lot of pills, John called 911.
Tom was taken to the hospital, and remained there for at least several days. When Walter Martineck learned about Tom's suicide attempt, Walter went to the state police and told them about the events of October 28th, and what Tom had told him about helping Drew Peterson move a container. What Tom had told Walter the night of October 28th, sometime after 9:00pm, came hours before Stacy was reported missing by her sister, Cassandra.
In the meantime, Drew went on his 3-day "head clearing" trip, and when he got back, next door neighbor, Sharon Bychowski, reported that Drew asked her to babysit with the children while Drew went to visit a relative in the hospital who had attempted suicide.
So, while Drew was off on his 3-day "head clearing" trip, Tom Morphey was in the hospital. I think that 3 day trip was for the purpose of disposing of Stacy's body, and we know that Tom was hospitalized during that time and couldn't have helped in the disposal.
In the aftermath, Tom Morphey disappeared for close to a year. It was later confirmed by LE that he was in some sort of protective custody. Most have presumed that Tom was in a rehab hospital. He's returned to Bolingbrook, and testified at the January pretrial hearing about the events of October 28, 2007.
I think Tom Morphey is just another victim of Drew Peterson. DP manipulated Tom into helping him move that container, and since then he and Joel have made every effort to paint Tom as a very troubled person with drug and alcohol issues, and not credible.
Clow Airport is right near his house and he supposedly went there to put new registration stickers on his plane (IIRC). I believe it's an ultralight and from what I can remember reading he wouldn't have been able to put anything with any weight into it (or something to that effect)....like a 1 person plane with no extra space....and this is from memory so if I'm wrong please someone correct me...
I just think it is really weird that the same type of helicopter you just stated landed at Clow on Saturday and my husband actually saw it. But he just thought it was "a helicopter landing - how was I supposed to know I should mention it to you?"
I just told him to get in the car and go by the airport and check to see if any unoccupied ISP cars are parked where you can see them but forgot my son has the car and won't be home till later - so we can't go check....:banghead: