Polygraph shows Drew Peterson '86 percent (to) 98 percent likelihood . . . not guilty'
Drew Peterson says he hasn't read the new book about him yet. He's waiting for free copies he's been promised. But he thinks other people should read it.
In Drew Peterson Exposed, author Derek Armstrong relies heavily on lie-detector tests Peterson took and concludes that the former Bolingbrook police sergeant probably wasn't involved in the October 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson.
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The tests also indicated Drew Peterson didn't play a role in the 2004 drowning death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, Armstrong argues.
In an interview, Peterson said those polygraph results prove what he's been saying since Stacy Peterson vanished last Oct. 28 -- that he had nothing to do with her disappearance or with Savio's death.
"I've been telling the truth all along," Peterson said. "Why would I take [the lie-detector tests] if I was gonna lie?"
Peterson cooperated with Armstrong, sitting for extensive interviews with the Canadian writer to provide what he called an "objective" account of Savio's death and Stacy Peterson's disappearance.
"I said, 'Let's get this story out there from an objective point of view,' " said Peterson, who said he has no financial stake in the book.
Citing the reliability of polgygraphy tests, Armstrong concluded: "There is between an 86 percent and 98 percent likelihood Drew Peterson is not guilty."
Still, Armstrong wrote, Peterson provided seemingly "deceptive" answers to three questions, including one in which he denied knowing where Stacy is.
Peterson said he answered all the questions truthfully -- and is surprised several answers were deemed questionable.
"I can't even speculate on it. I don't know why," Peterson said of the polygraph results, before speculating about one answer the author deemed deceptive.
"I have my suspicions where Stacy is. Maybe that has something to do with it," said Peterson, who has said he believes she left him voluntarily, possibly for another man.
The new book doesn't sit well with relatives of Savio or Stacy Peterson, who note the polygraph tests aren't admissible in court.
"It's meaningless," said Pam Bosco, a spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's family. "We're not changing our view of what his involvement was with Stacy and Kathleen."
Armstrong apparently views the 54-year-old Peterson differently, at one point calling him "a good father, a moral enigma, but not a killer."
To which Peterson said: "Thank you, I'll take that description."