I voted in this poll a long time ago, but never left a comment. I voted that Drew killed Kathleen Savio, and is responsible for Stacy's disappearance. I think he killed Stacy, and wouldn't be surprised if Drew is responsible for other deaths too.
I think it's likely that Stacy was killed sometime between 10:30am and 12:00 noon on October 28, 2007. I base my conclusion on the time line given - she spoke on the phone with Bruce Zidarich until about 10:25am, and by noon, Drew was covering up the morning's events. Next door neighbor, Sharon Bychowski, reported that she went shopping at about 9:30am and when she left, both of the Peterson vehicles, Drew's Denali and Stacy's purple Pontiac Grand Prix, were in the driveway. When Sharon returned home about 11:30am, Stacy's car was gone.
I originally thought that the evidence suggested that Stacy's body was in the blue barrel/container that Drew's stepbrother, Tom Morphey, helped load into Drew's Denali the evening of October 28, 2007. But after this week's testimony, I question if Stacy's body was in that blue barrel/container.
Drew stated that Stacy had called him and told him she was leaving him for another man, and that she left her car at Clow Airport, which is walking distance from the Peterson home.
Last week in the hearsay hearing, two different people testified that they were walking on Apple Valley Road between 6:00pm and 7:00pm on the evening of October 28, 2007. They testified that they saw a suspicious man, dressed in dark clothing and wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt.
One of the witnesses was a woman who was walking her dog, and she said she left her house at 6:34pm because she looked at her clock before leaving. She described the dark clothing and the dark hooded sweatshirt, saying the hood was up and she didn't get a good look at the person's face other than the man had a gray mustache.
The other witness said he was taking a walk on Apple Valley road between 6:00pm and 7:00pm, and he testified that the suspicious man came from the direction of a purple car, a General Motors car, but he didn't identify the make or model.
The band mother who picked up Tom Peterson for a band concert sometime between 3:00pm and 3:25pm said that she noticed that Drew was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt that day. She had to wait for Tom to come out of the house and Drew was in the garage with the door open and the little girl, Lacy, was playing on the driveway.
I did a map search for Apple Valley Road and find that its several blocks away from the Peterson home, in the opposite direction from Clow Airport, and one could probably easily walk that distance in just a few minutes.
Based on the testimony at the hearing last week, I think it's possible that Drew left the house briefly, shortly after he killed Stacy, and moved her car to Apple Valley Road, and walked back home. This would shore up his story that she had left, going to visit her grandpa at the assisted living home that day.
When Sharon got home from shopping she called the Peterson home. Kris answered the phone and when Sharon asked to speak with Stacy, he got flustered. Drew took the phone and said Stacy had gone to visit her grandpa. Sharon asked if the kids could come over for some Halloween candy she had gotten them. Drew said after lunch. When Drew took the children to Sharon's house about 1:00pm, he said he had a brief errand to run and asked if Sharon could babysit. Sharon said he was only gone about 15 minutes.
If Stacy's car was parked on Apple Valley Road, and Drew needed to take something from the house to Stacy's car, he could have easily made that trip in 15 minutes.
If Stacy's car was parked on Apple Valley Road all day, it would have been out of the Peterson driveway and probably out of the way for someone driving pass the Peterson home to see if Stacy's car was there. I'm sure Drew knew that Cassandra or other family members wouldn't be driving down Apple Valley Road to get to the Peterson house.
The police stated that the cadaver dog hit on the trunk of Stacy's car, suggesting that a body was in the trunk of that car at some point.
So, I'm trying to decide...........did Drew remove Stacy's body from the Peterson's house sometime that day and put her in the trunk of her car parked a few blocks away? Or, was Stacy's body in the blue barrel/container that Tom Morphey helped move downstairs from the master bedroom and to Drew's Denali?
If Stacy's body was in the blue barrel/container, Drew could have removed her body and put it in the trunk of Stacy's car, discarded the barrel, and either buried her or put her body in a lake or river. He knew that Tom Morphey was uncomfortable with what he already knew - that Drew wanted to get rid of Stacy. He might have presumed that Tom would break down and talk. So the blue barrel/container would be a distraction.