She's back
BOLINGBROOK | Former fiancee moves back in with Peterson over her father's objections
Drew Peterson's young lady love has returned to his life.
Christina Raines, the onetime fiancee and live-in girlfriend of the former Bolingbrook cop, was seen moving back into his Bolingbrook home -- and her father is not happy about it.
(Submitted photo)
"I'm not going to let this happen," said Ernie Raines, the father of 24-year-old Christina Raines. "I'm not going to wake up and get a call and have to look for my daughter."
State Police are still looking for Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, who was 23 when she vanished in October 2007. They have labeled her disappearance a "potential homicide" and named Peterson, 55, their sole suspect.
Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in a bathtub, a death now considered a homicide.
Raines, a single mother of two, moved into Peterson's home in January. A month before that, Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, trumpeted Raines and Peterson's engagement.
Raines later claimed on national television that the engagement was nothing more than a publicity "stunt" engineered by Brodsky. Brodsky countered that Raines was "confused."
Raines broke off her relationship with Peterson less than two weeks ago. She showed up at his home with her father and a TV camera crew to collect her things. Father and daughter appeared on CBS' "The Early Show" three days later.
During that interview, Ernie Raines said he "beat the devil" when he got his daughter back from Peterson.
"I don't know what I'm going to do now," Ernie Raines said Tuesday, vowing to continue to break up the two. "Believe me you, if I got to die for it or go to prison, I will. I won't let him destroy my daughter."
Peterson declined to comment on the status of his relationship with Raines.
He did accuse his stepbrother, Thomas Morphey, of snapping photos of him and Raines outside his home Tuesday, photos later provided to the Herald News, a sister paper of the Sun-Times, by a source who confirmed Morphey took the photos.
"I walked toward him, and he ran into [a neighbor's] house," Peterson said.
Shortly after Stacy disappeared, reports emerged accusing Morphey of helping Peterson carry a warm, blue barrel from Peterson's bedroom to a waiting Yukon Denali.
When he learned Stacy had been reported missing, Morphey was hospitalized for an overdose of sleeping pills. Morphey then became scarce, with sources saying he was in protective custody.
He declined comment Tuesday. Peterson has denied any involvement in Stacy's disappearance.
Sun-Times News Group