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[mysteriew]

Savio's Family Reacts To Alleged Wiretap Comments
http://cbs2chicago.com/westsuburbanbureau/drew.peterson.wire.2.778512.html

 

[fran]

Friend: I Posed As Woman To Snag Drew Peterson

Len Wawczak Says He Was 'Ashley' In A Mock Online Romance With Drew Peterson


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http://cbs2chicago.com/local/drew.peterson.love.2.778811

 

[chicoliving]

SENSATIONAL ACCUSATIONS FLY AS EX-PETERSON PALS FACE THE MEDIA.

The couple claiming they spied on Drew Peterson for nearly seven months and recorded his conversations for the cops said Thursday that Peterson "disposed" of what they believe was evidence during a visit to their home in December.

"He disposed of things in my presence on my property," said Paula Stark, who with her husband, Len Wawczak, said she wore a wire at the behest of the state police and surreptitiously recorded Drew Peterson's conversations.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/1074039,4_1_JO25_PETERSON_S1.article

 

[dee10134]

PETERSON: DUO 'TAKING ADVANTAGE' OF 'ANGUISH'

MEDIA FOLLOWS A BOLINGBROOK COUPLE WHO SAY THEY WORE A WIRE TO HELP POLICE COLLECT EVIDENCE AGAINST DREW PETERSON.


July 24, 2008
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By JOE HOSEY jhosey@scn1.com
BOLINGBROOK -- Paula Stark stood on a neighbor's stoop Wednesday and smoked a cigarette as she watched photographers and reporters staking out her home down the street. She and her husband were the next big thing, and she was feeling overwhelmed.
"I'm exhausted," Stark said.


More at link: http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/1072168,4_1_JO24_PETERSON_S1.article

 

[mysteriew]

Peterson amused by former friend&#8217;s online impersonation of female

Drew Peterson said Thursday he was impressed by his former friend Len Wawczak&#8217;s online impersonation of a woman for two months and called the stunt &#8216;comical.&#8217;

http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/bolin...ormer-friend-s-online-impersonation-of-female

 

[mysteriew]

snip... Len Wawczak and his wife, Paula Stark, said they agreed to the secret wiretapping of Drew Peterson after Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, disappeared. Wawzak also claims he tricked Peterson into fake online relationship.

Peterson once worried that police had wired his SUV for sound, but Wawczak said that it was he and his wife, Paula, who police had wired.

The couple said the wires were worn at their house, at Peterson's house, in restaurants, and in the car. Wawczak and Stark said that for seven months, sometimes up to seven days a week, and up to 13 hours per day, they were working with state police.
http://www.nbc5.com/news/16982546/detail.html?rss=chi&psp=news

 

[Tom'sGirl]

Stacey Baca interviews Len Wawczak 7-25-08

Peterson, wire-wearing friend get in altercation
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BOLINGBROOK (WLS) -- Drew Peterson and the man who claims he secretly taped him are both at the Bolingbrook police station this afternoon after the two got into a fight.

 

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The man who says he wore a wire on Drew Peterson angrily confronted the former suburban cop outside a Bolingbrook barbershop today, shoving him
during a heated parking lot dustup that drew nine squad cars.

Wawczak was ultimately charged with battery and released on bail just hours after the fight.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/1075142,JO25_PETERSONFIGHT_WEB.article

 

[mysteriew]

Cops: Drew Peterson, ex-friend scuffle outside barbershop
snip: Another police source said Hosey was at the barbershop before authorities arrived. "We got a call from the state police saying, 'You guys gotta get over to this barbershop because Drew and Lenny are getting into it'," said the source. "It sort of stunk to us when we're out there to sort this out and there's already photos posted." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-080725peterson-friend,0,6198349.story

Peterson Attorney Says Police Torturing His Client
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/len.wawczak.joel.2.780859.html

http://www.prnewschannel.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=725&z=4

Drew Peterson: Our Cowardly Lion
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/69554

 

[i.b.nora]

PRESS RELEASE

Drew Peterson Sets Record Straight on Former 'Friends' Betrayal
ThePublicityAgency.com - July 27, 2008

(PRNewsChannel) / Chicago, Ill. - After a week of hearing their names on local and national news coverage, Drew Peterson says he wants to set the record straight on the couple referred by the media as his "friends," "long time friends," and "close friends." These descriptions of Len Wawczak and Paula Stark, he says, are far from accurate and he wants to the record straight, according to his publicist, Glenn Selig.

Drew Peterson released the following statement:

"I first met Len Wawczak about 16 years ago. As a Bolingbrook police officer I was involved in Wawczak arrests for multiple various petty offences, such as drunk and disorderly, misdomeanor gun charges, and battery.

"After that, as an officer, I would see Len Wawczak and Paula Stark while I was on neighborhood patrol in my police car. I would stop and talk to them. It was in the capacity of police work, but the contacts were friendly in nature. I would see Wawczak and Stark about once or twice a month in this capacity, and we would engage in friendly conversation. However, I never entered their house, and neither Wawczak or Stark ever came to my home.

"After Stacy left, and the Illinois State Police (ISP) towed my cars as 'evidence,' many of my police offier friends abandoned me, and the media surrounded my home. At that point Len Wawczak and Paula Stark showed up and offered to let me use their car when I needed it. They also offered that I could come over to their home to get away from the media, and that they would help me by watching my kids when I needed. I took them up on their offers. Len Wawczak and Paula Stark suddenly started to come over to my house quite often, and engage me in conversation, and now, looking back, pretended to be supportive and friendly so they could record conversations to give to police. Len Wawczak and Paula Stark suddenly began to pay a great deal of attention to my children and put effort into developing a close and loving relationship with the kids apparently in an effort to gain even more access to me.

"Len Wawczak and Paula Stark were never my close friends or long-time friends. Further, they are people who we now know took advantage of my children and myself when he I was most vulnerable and needed help."

Editor's Note: Drew Peterson will not be available for media interviews.

 

[fran]

Drew Peterson's wire-wearing pal charged

A man who says he cooperated with police and wore a wire during conversations with a former police sergeant considered a suspect in his wife's disappearance was charged Friday with battery after shoving Drew Peterson in a barber shop parking lot.

Len Wawczak, a former friend of Peterson's, was charged with misdemeanor battery and released after posting $100 bond.

"I pushed him twice. ... I don't have a problem with that," Wawczak told WLS-TV. "It was the best one hundred dollars I ever spent in my life. ... I'd do it again."

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http://www.bnd.com/news/state/story/412251.html

 

[mysteriew]

Peterson's Attorney: Police Torturing His Client

The attorney for Drew Peterson is accusing Illinois State Police of "psychological torture," this weekend.

Joel Brodsky claims the torture stems from the use of former friends Len Wawczak and Paula Stark.
http://cbs4.com/national/len.wawczak.joel.2.781291.html

 

[Tom'sGirl]

The segment is in two parts......reminded me of the JS Show

Drew Peterson on M&J
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[SIZE=-1]Who attacked Drew Peterson? He talks about the bizarre brawl and answers M&J’s questions about rumored wire taps and a possible indictment! [/SIZE]

 

[i.b.nora]

Judge says gun case against Drew Peterson can proceed

Former cop, a suspect in wife Stacy Peterson's diseappearance, couldn't get felony weapons charge dismissed

July 30, 2008

By DANIEL ROZEK Staff Reporter

"A Will County judge refused today to throw out a felony weapons charge that was filed in May against former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson.

Judge Richard Schoenstedt rejected an argument by Peterson’s attorneys that federal law allows the retired cop to own the assault rifle that prompted his arrest.

The ruling means Will County prosecutors can proceed with their criminal case against Peterson, who faces a maximum five-year prison sentence if he’s convicted of possessing an AR-15 rifle with an illegally short barrel."

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[mysteriew]

Grand jury hears from ex-girlfriend of Drew Peterson's son
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-drew-peterson_01aug01,0,1583439.story

 

[Tom'sGirl]

Will County Board nixes vote on medical examiner

Drew Peterson investigation put heat on elected coroner

By Erika Slife | Chicago Tribune reporter 2:32 PM CDT, August 18, 2008 After two hours of testimony, the Will County Board voted 14-12 on Monday to reject a proposal to put a referendum measure on November's ballot asking voters whether the elected coroner should be replaced by an appointed medical examiner.

The issue, which was first brought up in April, signaled the political fallout resulting from the Drew Peterson investigation.

Under the current Will County coroner, Patrick O'Neil, a coroner's jury in 2004 ruled the death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, an accident.
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On Monday the board listened to impassioned pleas from Stacy Peterson's friends and family who are in favor of the medical examiner system, including her sister Cassandra Cales, who said, "I believe in my heart that had Kathleen Savio's case been properly handled, my sister would most likely be alive today."

But in the end, the board seemed to believe it did not have enough information about the medical examiner's office to justify making the costly switch.

 

[mysteriew]

Questions abound over initial probe of Kathleen Savio's death

When Kathleen Savio's lifeless body was discovered in the empty bathtub of her Bolingbrook home in 2004, state police immediately decided her death was not suspicious, a Will County deputy coroner's report obtained by the Tribune shows.

The investigators and experts re-examining her death as a possible murder are now asking how police could have been so quick to overlook signs that something sinister may have happened to the third wife of Drew Peterson, then a sergeant for the Bolingbrook Police Department.

They are suspicious about the absence of blood residue or a sediment ring on the walls of the tub where she was found, sources said. If she had bled from a head wound while drowning in slowly draining water&#8212;as the theory went&#8212;why was the tub not stained?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-savio_18aug18,0,7919543.story

 

[fran]

Peterson attorney says Stacy talked to friend about leavingWednesday,
August 20, 2008 | 6:42 PM

Drew Peterson's lawyer is claiming he's found new evidence backing Peterson's story that his missing wife, Stacy, left on her own.

Attorney Joel Brodsky says the new information was used as evidence by the Illinois State Police when they applied for a search warrant for Peterson's home. Brodsky released the information, which he says comes from a police interview with a junior college friend of Stacy Peterson's.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6340746

 

[fran]

TV crime show will feature Stebic, Peterson cases

The popular America's Most Wanted television show next month will feature a segment called Making Noise, which will give families of missing people suggestions on how to keep their cases in the headlines.

Among those featured on the program will be the stories of missing Plainfield mother Lisa Stebic and missing Bolingbrook mom Stacy Peterson.

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http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/1121063,2_1_AU22_STEBIC_S1.article

 

[chicoliving]

Drew Peterson says he knew nothing of the Coal City man his missing wife met for drinks the night before she vanished.

"This is the first I heard about it," Peterson said of Mike Kurdenok, a Joliet Junior College classmate of his missing wife, Stacy Peterson.

Kurdenok, 38, came forward immediately after Stacy disappeared to tell police she confided in him about a scheme to abandon her husband.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/1120806,4_1_JO22_PETERSON_S1.article