Fatal Vows by Joseph Hosey

Author:Joseph Hosey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Published: 2008-09-01T05:00:00+00:00

By mid-2006, the once-torrid February-October romance of the teenage hotel desk clerk and the middle-age suburban cop had mellowed into marriage and parenthood. After Stacy’s half sister Tina Ryan died in September of 2006, things took a decided turn for the worse, and by the autumn of 2007, the relationship between Drew and Stacy Peterson was nothing short of rocky.

Stacy’s grief over her half sister’s death understandably put stress on the Petersons’ marriage, but Drew Peterson actually blamed the couple’s misery on his wife’s menstrual cycle. Whenever she got her period, she wanted a divorce and then settled down again when it had passed, he claimed. Others say Stacy, period or no period, was on her way out by early October 2007, if not sooner.

What’s not debatable is that ever since Stacy was last seen on October 28, 2007, several people have come forward—either through the media or the grand jury investigating her disappearance—to speak to Stacy’s activities and state of mind in the weeks before she vanished.

Candace Aikin said Stacy told her she was getting ready to leave her husband, an announcement that almost forced Aikin to alter a visit to Illinois where she planned to attend a nephew’s birthday party in October of 2007. She was going to stay in Bolingbrook with the Petersons, as she usually did.

“I was out there a lot, and I stayed with them every single time,” Aikin said. She added that she was “very close to Stacy,” having been present both at her birth and the birth of her sister, Cassandra.

Aikin found Drew Peterson to be pleasant company, but she was reluctant to stay with the couple and their children if the family was embroiled in domestic strife. While Stacy told Aikin she was going to end the marriage, she assured her aunt that her presence in the home would not be a problem. Aikin did end up staying with them.

“They were getting ready for a divorce, she said, before I came,” Aikin recalled. “She said it wouldn’t be uncomfortable, but it was different than the other times I was out there.”

Aikin wasn’t the only person with whom Stacy shared her plan to leave Peterson. Sharon Bychowski attested that Stacy also talked about wanting to leave, as did Scott Rossetto, with whom Stacy exchanged racy text messages in the months before her disappearance and who later testified before the grand jury investigating the case. Pamela Bosco, Cassandra’s legal guardian and family spokeswoman, also said Stacy wanted to take her children and get away from Peterson. She said Stacy had asked Cassandra about moving in with Bosco’s brothers in California.

But there was other information, more shocking than her intention to end her marriage, that Stacy supposedly played close to the vest in the months before October 28, reportedly confiding in only two men.

One of those men was a Wheaton, Illinois attorney named Harry Smith, whom Stacy contacted to discuss divorcing her husband. Smith represented Savio in her divorce from Peterson.

The other man was minister

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