Drew confirms '07 visit to storage facility
BOLINGBROOK | Says he had tires to stash, rips in-law's claim
Drew Peterson acknowledged in a radio interview Sunday that he and a stepbrother visited a southwest suburban storage facility the day before his wife Stacy disappeared in 2007, but he insisted he was not plotting a murder.
Peterson, in an interview on WIND-AM (560), said he and Thomas Morphey visited the facility on Illinois 53 because Peterson needed a place to store tires cluttering the garage of his Bolingbrook home. He said he was just looking and did not rent a storage space.
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Morphey is expected to appear on ABC's "Good Morning America" this morning. Morphey told ABC that he and Peterson discussed a storage facility, and "I knew it wasn't, it wasn't good. He was planning on killing somebody."
Earlier this month, Morphey said he was in Peterson's home on Oct. 28, 2007.
Morphey said he saw Peterson, a former Bolingbrook cop, come out of the master bedroom with a blue barrel. Morphey said he helped Peterson carry the barrel downstairs, out the front door and into Peterson's Yukon Denali parked in the driveway.
Peterson drove Morphey home and told him, "This never happened," Morphey claimed.
Stacy, the fourth wife of Drew Peterson, hasn't been seen since that day. State Police are investigating.
In an interview Sunday night with WIND personality Geoff Pinkus and newswoman Amy Jacobson, Peterson denied he had a blue barrel and said Morphey is not believable because he suffers from alcohol and drug addiction.
Peterson added that he is not the only one whose wife has disappeared. About 15 years ago, Morphey's wife vanished, Peterson said.
Police have named Peterson as the only suspect in Stacy's "potential homicide." His third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in her bathtub in 2004 after they divorced. No charges have been brought in either case.
Contributing: Joe Hosey, Joliet Herald News