So About Drew Peterson's Childhood/Family History

[thelmadawg]

I'm curious. We've heard quite a bit about Stacy's family & background. What do we know about his family & background. Stable environment? Father in the picture? Etc.

The only comment I have heard so far from his mother sounded as though it was scripted by Scott Peterson's mother. To pharaphrase: He would never hurt anyone -- Shame on Stacy for leaving. Precious boy, imperfect wife!

Just wondering about Drew Peterson's psychology and from "wence" it came. Hopefully some of you sleuthers have more info.

[SuziQ]

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56079

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56484

[Cakegirl]

Sorry if this has already been posted somewhere else... I'm behind in reading all the posts and I'm trying to catch up.

But I was watching the news yesterday and was surprised (or not) to hear DP talk about how meticulous (sp?) his mother was in cleaning her house and how his dad liked everything just a certain way. He said when his dad got out of bed to brush his teeth, his mom would rush to make the bed before he was done. Sounded to me like his father ran a tight ship -- his mom basically sounded like the perfect housekeeper/maid.

Poor Stacy, as if it wasn't bad enough to have a uber controlling husband -- then add in the mother-in-law (and her "perfect" son story)... whew, that would make anybody ask for a divorce monthly. :mad:

[Vegas Bride]

Well he has a step brother so his mother remarried at some point, I haven't seen anything mentioned about his father so don't know if he's living or dead. I wonder if he was raised by the step-father or his bio father?
I wonder also if the family thought it to be unusual for Drew to have been married 4 times, divorced 3 or would this have been more the norm?

1 of his sons was married last summer, can you imagine the poor young woman now who has him for a father-in-law!! I'd bet money that she would have felt uneasy around him and he would be the type who would be learing at her etc.

VB

[thelmadawg]

So, we still know very little about him. A living mother, elderly. An unknown bio father and a step father.

Peterson's whole persona is swaggering, cocky, in your face, controlling, and devious.

My guess? If you scratched the glib surface, there would be some interesting family tales to tell.

[Vegas Bride]

Does he have aunts, uncles and cousins? I'm thinking when all is said and done relatives who are a little farther away may be more forthcoming about what the family is really like.

VB

[thelmadawg]

Does he have aunts, uncles and cousins? I'm thinking when all is said and done relatives who are a little farther away may be more forthcoming about what the family is really like.

VB

Amen. I'm surprised the media hasn't done a little investigating on this angle. While it may not solve the case, it might help to further a psychological profile on this man.

Has the stepbrother, Paul?, spoken out at all?

[SuziQ]

Amen. I'm surprised the media hasn't done a little investigating on this angle. While it may not solve the case, it might help to further a psychological profile on this man.

Has the stepbrother, Paul?, spoken out at all?

Paul is Drews brother. Tom is Drews stepbrother.

[Tennisfool]

Admittedly I haven't read everything so hopefully this isn't a retread thread. Several years ago I was active here (dunno what happened to my post count, maybe a site upgrade?) but we researched Scott Peterson's childhood and his upbringing in depth.

What made SP a sociopath? We delved deep.

Now in reading the esteemed Greybeard's and the always thought-provoking posts of ThoughtFox, I began wondering ... how was Drew Peterson raised? Was he the darling of the family--doted on, babied--saved from his every failure by his blinded parents?

Or perhaps he was terribly abused as a youngster, thus becoming devoid of conscience?

Drew Peterson appears to have many of the same sociopathic traits exhibited by SP.

What do we know of his early life?

[philamena]

wow, I remember reading the Laci Peterson threads here when the investigation, arrest and trial were happening. I also remember Greybeard, Tfox and Greybeard. How exciting to read your post again.

As far as D. Peterson, I haven't read anything about his childhood though I remember much 'sleuthing' was done to find information about S.P.'s childhood, school years and his early employment.

I'll try to do some searching about DP this weekend.

[Taximom]

Well, we know at some point there was at least one divorce and remarriage, right? Peterson/Morphey

Just from the little we've heard from his mom: "Little DrewP Can Do No Wrong" and "Everyone Else Is Crazy But Not My Little DrewP." (Where have we heard that before?!)

[ThoughtFox]

Hi, Tennisfool! *waves*

I think this is a good time to look into Drew's past and family life, now that we know about his troubled stepbrother, Morphey. I think Drew may have been the "successful" son, while Morphey was the one who couldn't cut it in life. But somewhere, Drew learned to be violent and to blame women for his problems, just like Scott P. These guys don't grow up in a vacuum.

Here is the article in which Drew's mother said she was "ashamed" of Stacy for somehow ruining their family. Yep - blame the victim. She seems to think that with each marriage, the fact that the women were younger was somehow to blame, instead of anything Drew actually did:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/658854,CST-NWS-drew20.article

. . . "I would tell her I'm ashamed of her for putting the family through this," Morphey said. "She knows where she is."

In a lengthy interview, Morphey, 79, spoke about how heartbreaking she finds the insinuation that her son would harm anyone. Stacy's family believes the young mother would never have left her two children and fear she is dead.

"I could swear on a Bible that he would never hurt anyone at any time," Morphey said. "I'm proud he's my son and I feel so bad he's got to go through all this because of her. She was just too young." There is a 30-year age difference between Drew and Stacy Peterson.

On Monday morning, Morphey watched her son's ex-wife Carol Brown on ''Good Morning America'' instead of Peterson and his attorney on the "Today" show.

~~~snip~~~

Carol Brown, Peterson's first wife, appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America." She said Peterson was attentive during their marriage and a good father to their two sons. "This is very unbelievable," she said. "In the beginning we had a normal relationship. We did things together," said Brown. He didn't like her to go out in the evenings with girlfriends, but Brown did not indicate she thought that was unreasonable.

"I did discover that he was having an affair. I guess that was the beginning when we started being separated," said Brown.

Asked if her ex-husband was capable of murder, she replied: "The Drew that I knew, [I] would never expect that."

Morphey said Monday that Brown was a "lovely girl" who spoke the truth about her husband on morning television.

"They got married so young," Morphey said. Drew Peterson and Carol Brown married when she was still in high school and he was a recent graduate. "That's why that didn't last. I wish he would have stayed married to her forever."

Morphey said she didn't know anything about allegations of adultery that Peterson's former wives have leveled against him.

"I can't picture him doing anything to hurt anyone," she said.

Morphey said she has lost weight over the last three weeks and is sick to her stomach over the idea that her son, a former police officer and military veteran, had anything to do with his third wife's death and fourth wife's disappearance.

"All of this is not necessary," she said. "She didn't have to walk out and leave everybody stranded and not knowing what to do. All she has to do is call and say she's fine."



To me, Mrs. Morphey just saw what she wanted to see. When you read the details of the marriages, all the wives say exactly the same things - he was controlling and wouldn't let them go out with friends; he committed adultery on all of them; he got angry when they said they were going to leave.

Stacy was his fourth wife, yet Mom acts as if she never heard any allegations against her son. Deep denial.

I would love to know more about his childhood. I'll start digging around.

[ThoughtFox]

I found some stuff here about Drew's later childhood:

http://www.acandyrose.com/stacy_peterson_timeline1.htm

Growing up with first wife Carol Brown and her second husband
http://www.suntimes.com/news/655142,111707boling.article

Another interview with Wife # 1, who says he was a "charming teenager" and "self-confident."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-brown_18_webnov18,0,7591973.story

[SuziQ]

Great thread. I'm always interested in what kind of upbringing may have contributed to creating people like Drew. Or was he just born a bad seed?

[Pocono Sleuther]

Well I've been waiting for this thread to pop up. We did dig deep into SP's childhood and IIRC we discovered JP was as much in denial as Drew's mom is. It seems we had much more to go on in Scott's situation however. I would love to know what happened between the first marriage and the second to make him do such a flip. I mean, I'm sure the violence and controlling nature have always been inside of him. I'd just like to know if there was an event we could attribute the change to. Wasn't it the first wife who's said this is not the Drew she knows? Something had to flip the switch inside of him. Perhaps something on the job? I'd love to know.

[SeriouslySearching]

It was mentioned his first wife had a miscarriage. This could have affected him adversely. Also, when was he in the military?

[Tennisfool]

Thank you for the links, ThoughtFox. I'm going to spend some time soon sifting through that first one--there are a lot of informational nuggets there.

And I'm left wondering about Drew's early childhood. My sleuthy time is limited but I have great suspicions that disfunction played a major role in his upbringing.

ps: did I read this right--that Stacy had a sister who died very young named Lacy?

She then named her daughter Lacy? Just wow. Change the Y to an I and it's wild.

[TGIRecovered]

Well I've been waiting for this thread to pop up. We did dig deep into SP's childhood and IIRC we discovered JP was as much in denial as Drew's mom is. It seems we had much more to go on in Scott's situation however. I would love to know what happened between the first marriage and the second to make him do such a flip. I mean, I'm sure the violence and controlling nature have always been inside of him. I'd just like to know if there was an event we could attribute the change to. Wasn't it the first wife who's said this is not the Drew she knows? Something had to flip the switch inside of him. Perhaps something on the job? I'd love to know.


I have read that some personality disorders and other mental illnesses sometimes don't manifest themselves until early adulthood and get progressively worse with age.

Susan

[Tennisfool]

These things progress and escalate.

[Pocono Sleuther]

Yes, Tennisfool, you sure are right on that one. Just look at how he's gone from the threatening the wife about making her death look accidental to going through with it in another marriage.
And SS mentioned the miscarriage with the first wife, that could trigger control issues having something so devastating happen which you have zero control over. I really wonder about his mother. JP's mothering and ability to detach played, imo, a huge role in SP's ability to detach himself from 'Laci's baby". I think there's something with either DP's mother or father which gave him this anger towards women. My guess is it's something of the mother. But what? I have no idea.

[Vegas Bride]

These things progress and escalate.

And everything they get away with makes them more confident they can do even more.

VB

[Pocono Sleuther]

And is sure does show VB! This is one of most arrogant wife murderers I think I've ever seen.
Still doesn't change the fact that he's a :loser: ~~!

[mysteriew]

I wonder if there was domestic abuse when DrewP was growing up. What children learn in the home as children, they often practice when they get their own home.
It may be to a greater or lesser extent than what they saw at home, but it frequently happens.
Then again, there is always the exception- the kid who never saw abuse at home, yet grew up to become an abuser. So it is hard to tell.

[Tom'sGirl]

Admittedly I haven't read everything so hopefully this isn't a retread thread. Several years ago I was active here (dunno what happened to my post count, maybe a site upgrade?) but we researched Scott Peterson's childhood and his upbringing in depth.

What made SP a sociopath? We delved deep.

Now in reading the esteemed Greybeard's and the always thought-provoking posts of ThoughtFox, I began wondering ... how was Drew Peterson raised? Was he the darling of the family--doted on, babied--saved from his every failure by his blinded parents?

Or perhaps he was terribly abused as a youngster, thus becoming devoid of conscience?

Drew Peterson appears to have many of the same sociopathic traits exhibited by SP.

What do we know of his early life?

We already have a thread Drew Peterson's Family History here
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56733

[savannahanna]

I am so curious as to what happened in DP life and what future events hold that I have began looking on web to see if anyone had tried to do an astro chart on DP. I have no idea how much information someone would need besides his birthdate but while I don't always believe in this type of forecasting-I would be eager to hear if someone has thought of doing one and what it shows---just a thought! Really would like to gain any insight from what is available.

Savannahanna

[kpass]

I am so curious as to what happened in DP life and what future events hold that I have began looking on web to see if anyone had tried to do an astro chart on DP. I have no idea how much information someone would need besides his birthdate but while I don't always believe in this type of forecasting-I would be eager to hear if someone has thought of doing one and what it shows---just a thought! Really would like to gain any insight from what is available.

Savannahanna


Does anyone know when his b/day is & when Stacy's is? I recall reading here about Laci's b/day & SP's, etc. I do remember hers is 05/04, am I correct?

[savannahanna]

Hi,
I haven't seen one mentioned yet, I was wondering if any of Stacy's family would post them.
Savannahanna

[Pocono Sleuther]

I have no idea of the bdays, but wanted to tell you I think this is a great idea. I remember someone doing this for Laci's case. Please let us know what you learn.

[kpass]

I have no idea of the bdays, but wanted to tell you I think this is a great idea. I remember someone doing this for Laci's case. Please let us know what you learn.

Here's what I found...
Divers will resume their search Thursday. In the meantime, Stacy Peterson's family is planning a fundraiser for the search effort to be held January 20, Stacy's birthday.
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/stacy.peterson.search.2.603126.html

[Littledeer]

So Stacy was born on January 20th, 1985.

Still a young vibrant female in the start of her adulthood.

[savannahanna]

Littledeer,
Thank you for the information on Stacy's BD 1/20/85, the only thing I have found for DP as far as BD is 1954. Does anyone on the list have someone close to the family that knows or would post DP's BD? I don't have the ability to do an astro chart myself but the members of this site are really awesome as far as contacts and special interests and I am hoping someone would volunteer to do a chart on Stacy and DP. I would like to see something in his chart that would give us reason for hope and cause him extreme concern. Doubt that he would believe anything that came up in chart but hey, maybe that would be to our advantage and we can be in the know and he will be out of the loop in this respect.
I am wondering should this message be on a new thread? I am old member but new at posting so might need some guidance.
Stacy, you will always be in our thoughts and hearts:angel:
Savannahanna

[Tom'sGirl]

So Stacy was born on January 20th, 1985.

Still a young vibrant female in the start of her adulthood.

Right month and day, but the correct year is 1984

[Tom'sGirl]

Littledeer,
Thank you for the information on Stacy's BD 1/20/85, the only thing I have found for DP as far as BD is 1954. Does anyone on the list have someone close to the family that knows or would post DP's BD? I don't have the ability to do an astro chart myself but the members of this site are really awesome as far as contacts and special interests and I am hoping someone would volunteer to do a chart on Stacy and DP. I would like to see something in his chart that would give us reason for hope and cause him extreme concern. Doubt that he would believe anything that came up in chart but hey, maybe that would be to our advantage and we can be in the know and he will be out of the loop in this respect.
I am wondering should this message be on a new thread? I am old member but new at posting so might need some guidance.
Stacy, you will always be in our thoughts and hearts:angel:
Savannahanna
Drew Peterson date of birth 01-05-1954

[kpass]

Drew Peterson date of birth 01-05-1954

So, he's a Capricorn & Stacy's an Aquarius. Here's what I found...

Capricorn Man & Aquarius Woman
This match is so ill-advised that it is practically over before it can even get started. You will find it almost impossible to be happy in a relationship with a Capricorn boy. You both have good confidence and strong sense of who you are, and that might be something that draws you together at first. However, the fights will start early and they will never stop. He is a very controlling guy who wants to dominate you and be totally in charge. He’ll tell you what to wear, where to go, who to hang with... you’ll want to strangle him. You are a girl who really needs her freedom, and you won’t put up with anyone trying to change your personality. You deserve a boyfriend who likes you just the way you are. This is a match that you don’t need. ( Source: Jellybean's Astro-Soulmate Guide )

Aquarius girl will respect Capricorn boy's drive and determination. In turn, Capricorn boy will be in cosmic awe of your strength and ability to stand up for what's right. Other girls may be afraid to speak their mind, but somehow, that's never your problem. It's something that Capricorn boy will probably cherish about you. ( Source: FUNgirl - Astrology )

http://www.dressking.com/horoscope/Aquarius-Capricorn.htm

SCARY!!!!!! :banghead:

[savannahanna]

Thanks for posting KPASS: Very interesting & an unfortunate union.

Capricorn Man & Aquarius Woman
This match is so ill-advised that it is practically over before it can even get started. You will find it almost impossible to be happy in a relationship with a Capricorn boy. You both have good confidence and strong sense of who you are, and that might be something that draws you together at first. However, the fights will start early and they will never stop. He is a very controlling guy who wants to dominate you and be totally in charge. He’ll tell you what to wear, where to go, who to hang with... you’ll want to strangle him. You are a girl who really needs her freedom, and you won’t put up with anyone trying to change your personality. You deserve a boyfriend who likes you just the way you are. This is a match that you don’t need.
http://www.dressking.com/horoscope/Aquarius-Capricorn.htm
The following is a prelude to the above which I found very enlightening also:

The Capricorn loves rules and regulations --- to make them, to obey them and to enforce them. Aquarius laughs at rules and looks upon them as pathetic artificial limitations to the infinity of creativity. Time stands still for the Capricorn when a rule is broken; there can be no progress for her until the rupture is healed. But the Aquarian just shrugs and walks away from the whole question. Both signs are more than capable of making their own decisions in life and these two are most likely to decide to part curtly, albeit amicably, and to go their separate ways.

http://www.dressking.com/horoscope/Aquarius-Capricorn.htm

DP lives up to his astro sign and more. I have other friends born in this sign and their personalities are not even close to being this extreme i.e. control, jealoous, etc.

Savannahanna
Idaho

[DeltaDawn]

I thought I read somewhere that one of Drew's father's, not sure rather it was step or bio, was in the military.

Has anyone seen a reference to that?

I also wonder how old he was when the parents separated or did his bio father die? I have never seen a reference to his bio father or that phase of Drew's life.

[Tom'sGirl]

I thought I read somewhere that one of Drew's father's, not sure rather it was step or bio, was in the military.


Has anyone seen a reference to that?

Yes, I read the Marines.
I also wonder how old he was when the parents separated or did his bio father die? I have never seen a reference to his bio father or that phase of Drew's life.
Either have I, but evenutally it probably will, perhaps from one of his old school classmates.