Drew Peterson's son tells CBS 'Early Show': 'I don't believe it'
Drew Peterson dragged two of his children along with him for his latest morning show appearance Friday and sat by while one explained his murdered mother's death away, saying, "Accidents happen all the time."
The two young men appearing on the CBS "Early Show" - Thomas and Kristopher Peterson -- are the sons of Peterson's murdered third wife, Kathleen Savio.
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Kristopher, 14, was dressed in a T-shirt and sat in silence throughout the show on his father's left. His brother, Thomas, 16, sat on his father's right side. Thomas wore a black suit, black shirt and white tie, and did all the talking for the two.
Thomas said he was skeptical of accusations that his father had something to do with his mother's death.
"I don't know what else to say," he said. "I don't believe it."
Thomas also criticized his mother's sister, Anna Marie Doman, and her father, Henry J. Savio, for bringing a wrongful death lawsuit against Drew Peterson earlier this week.
"I think it's ridiculous," Thomas said. "They're trying to take money from my dad and basically give it back to us.
"Do the math," he said.
Thomas also said he had virtually no relationship with his aunt or grandfather.
"If he was walking down the street I wouldn't recognize him," he said of his mother's father.
"My aunt, I haven't seen her in six years," Thomas said of Doman.
Kathleen Savio was found drowned in a dry bathtub in March 2004. She and Peterson were in the midst of a contentious divorce when she was found dead.
State police found nothing suspicious about Savio's death and it was ultimately ruled accidental. Authorities reclassified Savio's death as a homicide after Peterson's next wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished in March 2004.
State police are investigating both cases and have named Drew Peterson their sole suspect in Stacy's disappearance, a matter they have labeled a "potential homicide."
Also appearing on the "Early Show" Friday was John Q. Kelly, a New York attorney representing Savio's family in the wrongful death suit. Kelly was disturbed by Peterson taking his children on the nationally broadcast morning program.
"To see them thrust on television, talking about their mother's death, is upsetting," Kelly said.
But thrust on television or not, Thomas Peterson was in full support of his father.
"I want to say he's the greatest dad in the whole world," Thomas said. "A lot of people don't know that."