Peterson's Reward Too Little Too Late
Rebekah Price
May 02, 2008
In the hours, days and months that followed the separate disappearances of two young mothers, Lisa Stebic and Stacy Peterson, from Will County, Illinois, their husbands looked the other way. The wives just walked off, they wanted us to believe. At least Craig Stebic made a pathetic effort to look interested for a brief moment in time. Drew Peterson gave us none. Both obstructed the investigation. Both manipulate the media and their children. Both come across as cold and calculating. Both want the public to believe they are the ones persecuted.
Six months after the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, her husband, Drew, has finally figured out that he better look like a caring husband. Perhaps he has observed his neighborhood home boy, Craig Stebic, look a bit too disinterested in Lisa Stebic“s year old disappearance and thought to himself, "gee, that really looks bad." He is slow, but old dogs can learn new tricks.
Drew“s biggest mistake all along was to think no one would seriously question the whereabouts of a young, vibrant, 23 year old woman enough to keep the candle burning. He banked on his age, maturity and ability to offer some feasible, if lame, excuse as to her whereabouts. After all, he allegedly disposed of his third wife and never got caught. What is one more? But it all backfired. Stacy touched far more lives in her short, young life than he counted on. She was free with her words to a few select people, and she tried, even at her young age, to save herself.
Yesterday MSNBC reported Drew as saying he "hoped his wife, Stacy, would have contacted him by now". He goes on to say he "can“t fathom" why Stacy has not reached out to him. Duh. The public feels it knows very well why she has not reached out to him. Public consensus also reveals most polled think he knows where she is. Perhaps Drew should take some of the insurance money and hire Sylvia Browne or James Van Pragh to contact Stacy. Maybe he and Craig can pool their insurance monies.
Suddenly, we see Drew Peterson“s epiphany motivate him in an attempt to garner more sympathy from the public. One can only imagine what is behind this latest move. In a recent telephone interview with Carol Penning, the Bolingbrook Village Clerk, she commented on how difficult it has been for the community to lose two people "you thought you knew". First there was Stacy, who is literally missing, then Drew, whose antics have been hard to tolerate. The strain on the Bolingbrook residents is immense, and, unlike Drew, the residents just want to bring Stacy home.
Fundraising events are scheduled to help support the ongoing search for Stacy Peterson May 3rd and May 10th in the Village of Bolingbrook. That can not make Drew feel very comfortable; though now, with his latest offer of a reward, he may well show up in a feigned attempt to look more like the grieving husband. It will not be enough to change the current of mistrust Drew created throughout the past six months.
The people of Will County have to decide how to deal with Peterson and Stebic day to day until all the facts are in. What is known is that two young mothers remain missing--one after a year, another after six months--and their husbands remain the prime "persons of interest". If Drew Peterson thinks he can assuage his guilt and win over some public favor with his feeble and meager reward offering, he is once again mistaken. It is too little, too late.
Instead of returning to the same drawing board, Joel Brodsky would do well to offer his client a radical new idea. One that is so farfetched even Drew Peterson could not come up with it on his own. No, he would need legal counsel for this one, and good legal counsel if he could find it. The haphazardly choreographed, egocentric atmosphere of the Brodsky-Peterson burlesque would break all its own rules with this unconventional approach that could change everything.
All Drew has to do is tell the truth.
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