Drew Peterson engaged

[galaxy21]

Drew Peterson, who is still married to his missing wife Stacy, is now engaged to a 23-year-old Chicago-area woman, his publicist said today.

Glenn Selig said the 54-year-old former police sergeant has been seeing the woman for about four months. She's the same age Stacy was when she disappeared last October. If they marry, she will be Peterson's fifth wife.

"This is a private matter as far as we're concerned," Selig said. "And he's entitled to be happy."

Peterson is a suspect in Stacy's disappearance, which police have called a "potential homicide." Peterson has long claimed that she left him for another man.

Peterson met with a divorce attorney in November. In Illinois, willful desertion or abandonment for at least one year is grounds for a divorce.

Peterson said today that media attention tends to sabotage his relationships.

"I'm not saying nothing," he said in a telephone interview with a female Tribune reporter. He then joked: "You kept putting me off. What else could I do?"

The engagement was first reported this morning in a news release by Derek Armstrong, the author of a book about Peterson.

Regarding the new engagement, Selig said: "Obviously he has to be divorced in order to be re-married. But we're not giving details at this point as far as what that process will be or won't be."

Selig also noted that Peterson was in the process of getting divorced from his third wife, Kathleen Savio, when he got engaged to Stacy.

Savio, 40, was found dead in an empty bathtub in her Bolingbrook home. Her divorce from Peterson was only weeks from being finalized.

Although her death initially was ruled an accident, authorities reclassified it as murder after a second autopsy was conducted in the wake of Stacy Peterson's disappearance.

--Erika Slife

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/drew-peterson-reported-engaged.html


Is that woman fucking nuts?

[maddezmom]

1. it was a stunt

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/02/drew-petersons-young-ex-e_n_163156.html

[babylonsister]

2. No he's not. This is an old story from December. She found her sanity

and iirc did this as a publicity stunt.

[Wapsie B]

3. Irregardless of being a publicity stunt or not

I have to think that someday he'll screw up and get caught somehow. Or some determined investigator will uncover something that gives them proof that Drew is a serial killer. It may take awhile though. I wonder though if he could seemingly get away with killing two women if there aren't a few more out there?