Murder Suspect Seals Deal For Wife #5
Drew Peterson Engaged Though Still Married to Missing Wife
By Sara Bonisteel - (FOX)
The former police officer who is a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife and whose third wife died suspiciously in a bathtub plans to walk down the aisle for a fifth time
Drew Peterson, 54, is engaged again, his lawyer and publicist confirmed Wednesday to FOXNews.com.
Though Peterson is still married to fourth wife Stacy, who was 23 when she disappeared last year, he has found a new 23-year-old fiancée, he told “Drew Peterson Exposed” author Derek Armstrong Tuesday.
“The kids have met her,” said Armstrong. “They like her and they know about this engagement.”
Peterson had two young children, Anthony, 6, and Lacy, 4, with Stacy Peterson. The missing mother’s family contends she is dead.
“Oh my God, I’m speechless,” Pam Bosco, a spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson’s family told FOXNews.com when informed of the engagement. “History repeats itself, so I imagine that that’s the same situation he had before: He’d be involved with somebody when he was getting rid of the one before.”
Armstrong said the new fiancée, whom Peterson refused to identify, lives within 15 minutes of his Bolingbrook, Ill., home. Lawyer Joel Brodsky and publicist Glenn Selig did not identify the woman either.
Selig said the engagement happened “sometime within the last couple of days.”
A sticking point for Peterson is his current marriage. Earlier this year, he met with high-profile Chicago attorney Jeffery M. Leving, a lawyer in the Elian Gonzalez case, to see what his rights to a split might be. Abandonment or desertion for at least one year is grounds for divorce under Illinois law.
“This is not uncommon for Drew,” said Selig. “When he was married to Kathleen still, he was in the process of divorcing Kathleen when he proposed to Stacy. He’s done this before and, you know, he seems very happy.”
Peterson has been at the center of the investigation into the whereabouts of Stacy Peterson, who vanished Oct. 28, 2007.
After her disappearance, the body of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, was exhumed and her 2004 bathtub drowning death was re-labeled a homicide.
Earlier this year, Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow issued a statement about the Savio and Stacy Peterson cases, indicating that a special grand jury is still weighing evidence in both.
“I fully expect there to be a resolution in at least one of these investigations in the near future,” Glasgow said.
Stacy Peterson’s family is pinning their hopes on that resolution.
“You’ve just got to stay focused on the investigation and hope that as the Illinois state prosecutor said, that they’ll have [it] resolved soon,” Bosco said.
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