he says, neil, i ve done a lot of bad things in my life. he ll always be my dad. either he has the worst luck in the world, or he s responsible for murdering two women. i wanted them to know the truth. i was talking to this lady. she s prettier than you. it was almost as if he considered himself like a celebrity. i didn t do it. you didn t do what? kill kathleen or make stacy disappear. it kill kathleen. or make stacey disappear. so everybody is making things up? a lot of people. or you may be here for the rest of your life. maybe, or i may not be. what keeps me going is my love, my heart. i will find her and i will bring her home. and that s my promise. i just think about, is this ever going to end, i my ever going to be able to find her and get the closure i need? in these murky training waters, a sister searches for answers. i m going to keep doing this every day i can and every day i can afford until the day i die, until i can bring home. solving t
the way he said it was so absent of emotion and i just knew, do not ask him another question. the pastures last conversation with stacey was in august, 2007. two months before she disappeared. she asked to meet, something urgent. i got there, and she was already sitting there, outside in the café, just like this. she looked concerned and she was quiet. then, very suddenly, she blurted out. she said, he did it. i said, stacey he did what? she said, drew killed kathleen. stacy told the pastor what she knew about that night in 2004. she said drew came home late. at first, he would not say where he had been, but eventually, she he told her enough to make it clear. he had just murdered his ex-wife. he talked about things he could ve done, obviously you could ve not have known what is coming. now, looking back, what are the things that should have been done?
did not find any dna under her fingernails like she had done anything, there was just absolutely know who, what, where, when, how in this case. look after attacking the physical lack of evidence, they argued the hearsay testimony was not reliable, nothing more than rumor and innuendo. the defense also denied peterson was abusive to women, as this sister in law had testified. in all the heated confrontations between peterson and kathleen, he was never charged with anything, but kathleen was charged with domestic battery, the record was later expunged. are you going to tell me you don t believe that a police officer calling his own police force to come investigate, they are not going to say, of course we believe the guy that works with us? i will say that the police had a job to investigate, they investigated, and based on that investigation they brought charges. as for the pastor, the states star witness, the defense said his testimony was hollow. the pastor story was, and his
dishing the dirt, that he could do. stacey was spoiled, stacey wanted what she got, she wanted a boot, job i got her job, she wanted a tummy tack, she got that. stacey loved militant shun, and we did all she wanted, she got it. in what had become a pattern, he repeated offensive comments about her, once he had already shared with pastor and other reporters. stacey was on an emotional rollercoaster from month to month, and i m not trying to be funny here but it seemed to go with her menstrual cycle if she was a pmf thing, she wanted a divorce. if she was, not everything was romantic and happy. reporter joe rosy troup had his own narrative where she was depressed, medicated, erratic, and it was not about him. troup did not have anything
help for her troubled marriage. stacy approached me after one of our church services and said neil, i believe that you are the counseling pastor here at the church, right? a pastor neil chery said he d be can counseling drew and stacey. one day, he said, through approached him. he said would he ever do right along with me in my police car? i said yeah, why not. he said drew drove them around, made small talk, and then got to the point. he says, i really wanted to talk to you about stacey. she really gets crazy. well, at that time of the month, and i just. he could see my displeasure with this. it felt so disrespectful. the pastor tried to change the subject. he asked to drew about his fate. he said to replied that he was not religious. he said neil, i ve done a lot of bad things in my life. i said, yeah we all have, through. he sort of looked off into the distance, it kind of looked like he went somewhere. he said neil, the difference is i have never felt bad for anything