Drew Peterson's Days of Freedom are Dwindling

If you can´t stand the heat get out of the kitchen, right? Well, anyone with half an ounce of sensibility would; but not Drew Peterson. Not even when he could slither under the nearest door jamb and almost get away from the ubiquitous and unsympathetic public.

Before he debuts his current rerun of "Poor Drew & Brodsky, Too" on the local Whine channel, the recently low-lying Peterson once again reared his classless head, this time in the office of one Mr. Jeffrey Leving, Esquire. Mr. Leving is the leading legal expert in the issues of men´s custody and men´s rights in divorce proceedings and family law.

Are you getting a picture in your mind?

He´s been trolling the local waters not for his missing wife, Stacy, but for Wife #5. Drew is seriously obsessed with another stupidly unsuspecting chippy. Why else would he be schmoozing the accomplished divorce attorney, Mr. Leving? So now he wants a divorce from the missing-and-presumed-deceased Stacy Peterson. Too bad he couldn´t have offered that to her a year and a half ago when she wanted it.

Another classless moment in the sociopathic Annals of Peterson.

Drew Peterson´s behavior has been so well documented in the local community that he has now decided Bolingbrook is not the right place to raise his children. Funny, it seemed like the right place when Stacy was around. Drew Peterson´s year long antics of blatant, in-your-face and idiotic behavior have done nothing to ingratiate him with his neighbors, who are counting the days until he is gone. One would be willing to bet that if he had looked even fractionally interested in locating Stacy, the community would have circled their wagons to protect him and the children.

But that is not the way Drew Peterson played it. Rude and ridiculous, he continued his despicable behavior to the point where one could easily argue he tacitly admitted causing Stacy Peterson´s disappearance, taunting the public with his outrageous capers. Combine that with his less than stellar parenting skills, leaving the younger ones in the care of older ones--one who allegedly suffers from suspected mental health issues--and you have a rotten recipe for a disastrous outcome. All in a day´s work for Nothing-Should-Get-In-The-Way-of-My-Social-Life Peterson.

But Drew´s days of freedom and running amok are dwindling away.

The Illinois House unanimously passed the ´Hearsay Law´, after also being unanimously passed by the Illinois Senate, which allows the prosecution to utilized hearsay testimony if, in fact, it can prove a deceased witness met his or her untimely demise in order to prevent testifying. Dubbed the "Drew Peterson Law" by the rabid media, the law may very well come into play not only in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, but the murder of Kathleen Savio as well. The unfortunate Ms. Savio sent a letter to an attorney saying Peterson was likely to take their children or kill her. After Kathleen Savio´s death, Stacy Peterson revealed to her minister that her husband, Drew, admitted killing Kathleen Savio. Sounds like a witness was silenced to me.

Of course, allies of Stacy Peterson hope that this brings the festering case of the missing Bolingbrook woman to a head and charges are formally placed where most believe they should have been long ago. Kathleen Savio´s supporters are just as invested; and certainly, Lisa Stebic´s family is watching these developments with great interest, as to how the Hearsay Law may affect their cause.

Now the state has the opportunity, the information and the tools to see that justice is done. At least three families could be affected by this new law and it is time for charges to be placed squarely where they belong. You don´t need a body to convict a murderer, just a body of evidence. And to the layman it looks like that is one body that is not missing.

Buckle up, Bolingbrook. It is going to get bumpier before it gets smooth again. Joel (I-Think-I-Can) Brodsky is finally going to have to do some real layering, not just photo ops, in the not-so-distant future.