Exposing the never-before-published polygraph results of Drew Peterson’s testimony, this illuminating exposé reveals new details in one of the most provocative and high profile criminal investigations in the country.
Exposing the never-before-published polygraph results of Drew Peterson’s testimony, this illuminating exposé reveals new details in one of the most provocative and high profile criminal investigations in the country. October 28, 2008 marks the one year anniversary of Stacy Peterson’s disappearance from her home in Bollingbrook, Illinois. Since then, her husband Drew Peterson has been at the center of a media storm which shows no sign of abating—and this book is sure to stir it up. Peterson, a former police sergeant, is a person of interest in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy, and in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. He has not been charged in either case, but he has been been excoriated in the media, and found guilty in the court of public opinion. Drawing on hundreds of hours of exclusive taped interviews with Peterson and his family, this journalistic inquiry presents the arguments for and against Peterson’s involvement in these cases with an impartial eye. Drew Peterson's own timeline for the nights of Kathleen's death and Stacy's disappearance are revealed here for the first time, as well as the startling results of the two polygraph tests he agreed to undergo for this book. Peterson was questioned by examiner Lee McCord, a thirty-four-year expert in the polygraph, regarding his involvement in the death of Kathleen and the disappearance of Stacy. The results of these tests, the evidence, and testimony assembled here shed new light on the details of the police investigations, motives and alternative theories of the case. Conflicting witness accounts, false leads, widespread rumors, and red herrings that have dogged the investigation are analyzed and 140 photographs and documents (including many private family photos published here for the first time) take the reader beyond the headlines to the heart of this sensational story. The frank and often unsavory portrait of Drew Peterson that emerges is bound to provoke further controversy.
Excerpt
The first of Drew Peterson’s polygraph examinations took place in a thirty-second-floor boardroom of Chicago’s historic Willoughby Towers, on a cool and clear Sunday, May 18, 2008. The elevators rattle and wheeze alarmingly as visitors climb some four hundred feet from the street, a grim reminder of two brave firefighters who died in this very elevator shaft in the 1980s, fighting a fire in a burning elevator car.
The view from lawyer Joel Brodsky’s conference room, high atop one of the buildings that made Chicago famous as a living museum of architecture, is of unobstructed park and waterfront.
Though this was cool sweatshirt weather in Chicago, the heat in the lofty boardroom was about to shoot up a few degrees as Peterson, a suspect in the disappearance of wife Stacy Peterson and in the death of third wife Kathleen Savio, was “wired up” by examiner Lee McCord, a thirty-four-year expert in the polygraph.
After nearly ninety minutes of control questions, designed to test physiological responses to known true and false questions, McCord got right down to business.
“Did you have any involvement in the physical removal of your wife Stacy from your home on Sunday, October 28, 2007?”
Perspiration-free and unflappable, Peterson says, “No.”
Showing no emotion at all, pen poised over the chart, McCord asked, “Did you in any way physically harm your wife Stacy during the time that she disappeared?”
Without hesitation, Drew Peterson answers, “No.”
Lee McCord turns up the heat as the examination continues, the results of which are potentially explosive.
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