Illinois Cop Proclaims Innocence In Rare Interview

[WilyWondr]

Source: CBS Broadcasting Inc

BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (CBS) ― While authorities search for Drew Peterson's fourth wife and re-investigate the death of his third, the former Bolingbrook police sergeant is again saying he had nothing to do with either incident, and blaming the media for his troubles.

Peterson's current wife, Stacy, 23, has been missing since Oct. 28. Peterson has been named a suspect in the case, and authorities suspect Stacy might have died in a homicide. Meanwhile, the body of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, has been exhumed after the Will County state's attorney's office called for a new investigation of her 2004 death.

In an interview on NBC's "Today" show, Peterson blamed the media for suggesting that he had been involved in the disappearance or death of either his current or former wife.

Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow ordered Savio's body exhumed last week, saying the original autopsy was likely incorrect and Savio's death was likely a homicide.

Savio's family has said she had predicted Peterson would kill her, and wanted authorities to pay attention in the event that she died.

Read more: http://cbs2chicago.com/national/kathleen.savio.autopsy.2.567637.html

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Cops don't lie, cheat, steal and kill do they? And cops never cover when another cop does one of these things do they?

Sarcasm intentional.

[pattmarty]

1. Uh huh, sure he didn't .

[varkam]

2. Well...he hasn't been found guilty of anything.

You know, presumption of innocence and all that.

[pattmarty]

3. YET. I'm always skeptical of police.

[varkam]

4. Just because one is a police officer does not automatically make one a murderer.

That still has to be proven in a court of law.

[pattmarty]

13. Evidently you have not dealt with the police except when they called for donations.

[varkam]

16. I've actually dealt with police on many occasions.

Regardless, one cannot take their personal experiences with police and then proceed to generalize them to the group as a whole. That's called stereotyping.

[pattmarty]

18. Nooooo, it's called fact.

If most of the times you have dealt with the police you were mistreated or treated unfairly, and others that you know for sure were treated the same way, IS NOT STEREOTYPING. The police over the past 30 yrs have become more violent, there have been more "accidents", and IF they happened to be called to account they have almost always been acquitted.

[varkam]

20. Anecdotal.

Your own experiences and even experiences of people you know translate to a relative small proportion of police relative to the entire population of police. To assert, based on this small sample, that since they were X then all police are X fails to recognize the lack of generalizability of your premise. There are good cops out there, and there are bad ones - I've met and dealt with both kinds.

[pattmarty]

21. As your skin color "fades to black" , tell me that BS again please?

Hey, Are you a cop? Any relatives cops? Are you a rent-a-cop? Why don't YOU question some people out there? Try starting with black, latin, or "other". I am not saying ALL police are bad or corrupted, but I am saying ESPECIALLY in the last 30 yrs that they have gotten progressively worse. Jesus Christ, just look at that stupid fucking show on TV called Cops and tell me it ain't so.

[varkam]

25. Looks like I hit a nerve.

No, I'm not a cop nor am I related to any cops.

Also, I don't know if you know this but television (even "reality" television) is not reality. It's closer to make-believe than it is to reality.

[pattmarty]

27. You just validated my points. No need for further replies by me.

[varkam]

28. Uh-huh.

Have a nice day :hi:

[WilyWondr]

7. Me too

Also, the fact that it followed the cop in Crandon,WI killing those 6 people. Something fishy went on/going on in that Police Dept too.

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=251534&ntpid=3

Seven hours after he shot six people to death and seriously injured a seventh, Tyler Peterson drank coffee and soda at the rural home of a family friend and mulled the possibility of giving himself up, according to 911 calls released Tuesday from last week 's shootings in Crandon.

Between 9:15 a.m. and 9:34 a.m. on Oct. 7, Mike Kegley made two calls and his wife, Mary, made one as Peterson, a Forest County sheriff 's deputy and part-time Crandon police officer, sat in one of the homes on the family 's rural town of Argonne property.

The calls are the latest of 17 made after the shootings to be released by the Department of Justice.

Peterson reportedly showed up at the Kegleys after driving aimlessly around several northern Wisconsin counties in the hours after the shooting.

Still to be determined is where Peterson was in the hours just after the shooting and what contact he had with police or other law enforcement during that time, and who wounded Peterson just before he took his own life.

Investigators say Peterson died shortly after 12:30 p.m., having apparently shot himself three times in the head.

A month later and no ones knows what the cops were doing to catch this killer cop between 3am and 12pm while they received 17 calls about his location. WTF?

[kysrsoze]

12. BTW - What's with all the murderers (and alleged murderers) with the last name, Peterson?

[angstlessk]

5. riiiiiiiigh, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck

we must await 12 citizens to tell us IT'S A DUCK!

[varkam]

6. Uh...yeah. That's generally how it works...you know, that constitution thing and all. eom

[1620rock]

8. Shot himself three times in the head??? WTF

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. Ditto.

Outside of an automatic weapon set on burst mode, how do you do that?

[varkam]

17. Headshots are not necessarily fatal. eom

[pattmarty]

22. Are you fucking kidding me? Drink some more of "your" kool-aid!!!

[varkam]

26. No, I'm not kidding you. Calm down.

AFAIK a head wound is instantly fatal if it damages the parts of the brain that are resposible for basic body functions like respiration (such as in the medulla) or if it severs the brain stem. Also, of course, someone can bleed out but that tends to take a little bit of time.

There are numerous well-documented cases of people survivng these kinds of injuries.

[pattmarty]

29. Again, no need for me to reply to this rubbish. My point was made.

[varkam]

30. Hey, if sticking your fingers in your ears is what works for you...

[kysrsoze]

11. Wrong. He is presumed guilty when he is named as a suspect, as well as...

when arraigned, when bail is determined, etc. The ONLY time a person is legally presumed innocent is during the presentation of evidence in the trial. That's it.

[varkam]

15. No. When someone is arraigned and bail is determined, they are *suspected* of comitting a crime

There is a world and a half of difference between being suspected of a crime and being found guilty of a crime. They are still presumed innocent as far as the legal system is concerned - even at those stages.

[kysrsoze]

23. They are most certainly not - as taught in one of my law courses.

[varkam]

24. So then could you please explain this to me?

As I had always thought that someone was innocent until proven guilty in a court of law...I mean, that's why we have trials and everything as well as why the burden of proof is placed on the prosecution and not the defense. In other words, the defense doesn't have to prove why the defendant is innocent but the prosecution has to prove why he/she is guilty.

Even if someone is formally presumed guilty by the legal system, they still nonetheless have to be proven guilty in a courtroom - until then they have not been convicted of anything and so consequently it makes little sense to say that they are guilty (which was the reason for my original post).

[janetle]

10. Did you see the interview?

He described both wives as being on emotional roller coasters and he blamed hormones and their menstrual cycles for the problems in the marriages. I was astounded.

[WilyWondr]

14. Yes and it made me believe him even less

Here is a link to it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21784901/

I should've included this in the OP because seeing the video is what got me on this story....again.

[shanti]

19. guilty as sin

yeah, i said it.