"Fire Starter"

Today, my colleague Delilah from the Internet sites Peace4Missing, Mothers are Vanishing and Time's Up discussed how one case in particular fueled awareness and change. That case is Stacy Peterson. All rolled into one here is a case where the person has vanished, she was married to someone in law enforcement, domestic violence was a constant theme, connected a prior wife of Peterson's whom was found dead in a bathtub, a crime scene compromised and a grand jury investigation swayed towards the side of politics by a former questionable State's Attorney whom took an oath of office and buried the truth for any hope of justice in the very soil with it's victim Kathleen Savio.

In outrage over Stacy's apparent murder, sites all over Internet were born. Peace4Missing came out of a need to do more for victims and their families, Where is Stacy, Jurorthirteen, Justice Interrupted, Mothers Are Vanishing, Peterson Story, Levi Page Show on Blog talk radio, Time's Up, Justice Cafe, LostNMissing, Murphy Milano's Journal, We Want Her Found, other sites such as Behind The Blue Wall and a Candy Rose that built an amazing time-line on the entire case.

The cable network shows such as Nancy Grace, Greta, Geraldo, Larry King, Jane Valdez-Mitchell, Dana Pretzer's Scared Monkeys radio, MSNBC and others who in discussing this case brought the issue and its' victims of murder and family violence into the homes of millions of American's.

The books written by reporter Joe Hosey "Fatal Vows"and Stacy Dittrich "Murder Behind the Badge." And the upcomming book "Time's Up" was fueled and written so that victims of violence would have a fighting chance to stay alive while leaving their abusers, to be released in 2010, because of the Stacy Peterson case.

The blogs and social networking sites too many to name written by such sites as the Coalition of Crime Bloggers, Help Find The Missing, Websleuths , Women In Crime Ink.

The Illinois Hearsay law was enacted after Stacy's disappearance.

Thousands of people most whom I have never met, have changed the lives of so many others, all because of one woman, Stacy Peterson.

Think of her someplace directing traffic if you will, from the heavens. She is not sitting on some beach roasting marshmallows or eating dryed out chicken wings. Stacy's voice is finallly being heard and the world is listening.

A Year and a Half Later Bolingbrook Police Still Sleeping on the Job!

The following post is a reprint from a blog on Drew Peterson back on November 8, 2007. To read the current article over at women in crime on Kathleen Savio go to Women In Crime Ink.

The Bolingbrook Police Department never apologized, or as I have recently discovered put a policy for police perpetrated domestic violence.

Perhaps after the Savio family files suit against the Bolinbrook police department for their failure to adhere to the Federal Violence Against Women's Act, The Lautenberg Act and the shear disgreard for the life per the Illinois Domestic Violence Act the Bolingbrook Police Department will be forced to change it's current policy. Oh wait, I meant to say implement a policy- currently, there is nothing in place.

To Serve and Protect clearly was not followed within the rank and file of the Bolingbrook, Illinois Police Department. In failing to do their jobs, they have caused additional casualties. A look away mentality with one or more of their own. A sloppy death investigation. In this tight knit police department many,if not all knew that Drew Peterson was dating and having a relationship with a minor. Kathy Savio had a court order of protection and police had been at their home on numerous occasions.

Kathy Savio was a a sitting duck as Drew Peterson planned her murder. In reading brief remarks made by the late Kathy Savio, red flags, not slowly burning embers should have lead to charges and the ultimate arrest and conviction of Officer Drew Peterson. But, they did not! Why? As it is within too many police departments across the country, blue defends blue. Who defends the lives of the Officers families? Certainly, not the police. Then who can they count on when their cries for help fall on deaf ears and their voice is silenced, forever?

"When Daddy Make Mommies Vanish"

There is missed opportunity and danger when both local and national media decide to parade potential homicide suspects on the front page of the newspaper.

Inside the paper, a full two page staged layout with props showing the "perfect home life".
Sprinkled like sweet sugar four children as additional frosting on a cake that is not, fully baked.

I guess you could tag this as a "new found form of entertainment". A poor attempt in completly removing important criminal elements and facts of two women, married to a single man, both of whom have vanished.

I would like to offer my sincere apologies to those women and their families across the country who are as I write this, being stalked abused and in real imminent danger of loosing their lives. This display of "bad taste" and human tragedy has found it's way into your lives.

Please, do everything in your power to seek services for your safety. Contact the national domestic violence hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE. They will take you seriously, provide important legal, safety and shelter services at any location across the country . They won't parade the alleged offender across pages of newspapers in blood splattered ink or not take you seriously when you or a member of your family reach out for help.

The grave yard markers are filling up quickly with those whose cries for help continue to fall upon deaf ears.

We must stop this new form of victim bashing !

Shooter on the line: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VaNhBfzXN5c
Person of Interest Ha": http://youtube.com/watch?v=O6wccu40ehA

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Drew Peterson: U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, State's Attorney James Glascow Share a Common Thread?

Sua Sponte – It's Latin, meaning "of its own will." I am asking for United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's office in Illinois , to investigate in the case of Drew Peterson, of it's own will. They have the track record and the tools to investigate this case. Grand Jury or not, the State currently lack resources and expertise.

The Will County State's Attorney's Office do not have a body, a confession or a witness in the potential homicide of Stacy Peterson. And no one in the State of Illinois since 1850, has ever been convicted of murder without a body. And a damage dance of sorts is being done with regards to Kathleen Savio's murder.

But, there is a similar case on which I base my remarks, Thomas York a Chicago Police Officer, knew enough that investigators and the State's Attorney's Office would not be able to charge him with the murder of his wife or his business partner in April of 1981.

Why? As an officer he was trained not to leave evidence. As all good seasoned police are, trained not to leave a clue.

To sustain the charge of mail fraud, the government must prove the following propositions:

First, that the defendant knowingly participated in the scheme to defraud as described in the indictment.

Second, that for the purpose of carrying out the scheme or attempting to do so, the defendant caused the United States Mails to be used in the manner charged in the particular count; and

Third, that the defendant did so knowingly and with the intent to defraud.

Here is the link to the case in which Thomas York received 40 years for mail fraud:
http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/933/933.F2d.1343.89-3013.html

This in my opinion, based on research, Federal Prosecutors can charge Mr. Peterson with mail and insurance fraud. Kathleen Savio died a few weeks before she was to receive her settlement. Court documents and other related information not provided to the public regarding their divorce and the fact that Drew Peterson was already married and living a few houses away at the time, had motive. Add in the fact, Drew Peterson was a trained police officer, and a trained locksmith.

Documents pertaining to insurance, correspondence and pleadings regarding the "accidental death " of Kathleen Savio were also sent by United States mail. And that is where the feds come into this case.

State's Attorney Glascow must now look beyond a murder charge in this case. The statue for mail fraud and insurance is 5 years which comes due in February of 2009.

To The Relatives of Kathleen Savio and Stacy Peterson, my hope is that justice prevails in the deaths of your loved ones. But, to do this you must be diligent and remain on the door steps of the Will County State's Attorney's Office.

You must also send letters to Patrick Fitzgerald's office asking for them to look into your request. Then gather volunteers and begin a media campaign. Ask those stations who have given air time to both Mr. Peterson and his legal defense to allow you the same courtesy.

Prepare your remarks on paper, stand tall and allow no one to move you off the path of truth.
You have lost enough already!