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Peterson case: Did cops protect one of their own? - CNN.com
BOLINGBROOK, Illinois (AP) — Eighteen times in two years, Bolingbrook police were called to fellow officer Drew Peterson’s home because of trouble between husband and wife.
But Peterson’s wife could never get authorities to arrest him. In fact, she was the only one ever charged.
Now residents of this Chicago suburb are wondering whether police were protecting one of their own — and whether they bear some responsibility for what happened next.
Peterson’s wife at the time of the domestic disturbance calls, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in 2004 under mysterious circumstances. And now his current wife, Stacy, is missing and feared slain.
The way police dealt with Peterson “makes it kind of hard to trust cops,” said Pablo Delira, a 59-year-old construction worker. He said he has no doubt he would have been led away in handcuffs if police had been called to his house 18 times.
It is just so hard to believe that the police never had cause to arrest him in those 18 recorded calls. I say recorded calls because there is no way to know how many times they were out to the home and didn’t make a report. His second wife is very clear that the police were at the house during their marriage and since the officers were Peterson’s friends no reports were filed. One dead and one probably dead and they finally get off their butts and look at him. Why would it ever take two women dead for the police to get around to looking at a police officer as a suspect. One or both might be alive if the police had done their job in the first place and not let their personal feelings get in the way.
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