(coming into this thread from the back end, so this may have all been expressed elsewhere)...Spooky the name comparison of Stacy Peterson to Scott’s wife/victim; and now I see by the caption that their daughter is named Lacy....beyond spooky.
Cesare has known Stacy since she was a young girl, as he dated her older sister Tina in the 1990s. The two kept in touch after Tina died last year of colon cancer.
Cesare last saw Stacy two months ago when she surprised him at work with a picture album of her sister’s from when the two had dated.
“I couldn’t imagine this family going through any more tragedy,” he said. “They’ve been through plenty.”
Stacy’s mother disappeared a decade ago, seemingly without a trace. And before that, Stacy lost two sisters, one in a house fire and another to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, according to a family friend. A brother of Stacy’s has continuing legal troubles.
Those childhood hardships may have led Stacy to marry a man 30 years her senior.
“It was the picture of a controlling older man and I was always very cautious of it because this is a guy you don’t want to mess with, so I always kept my distance,” Cesare said.
Drew Peterson made it easy for Cesare to keep his distance because Stacy’s husband limited her phone use.
“Don’t worry about calling my cell anymore, or the house phone. I have talked with Drew, so no worries,” Stacy wrote in an e-mail to Cesare.
“I don’t think she ever had time to get away from him,” he said.
According to Cesare, this included when her sister battled cancer in a downstate hospital.
“I tried to arrange to drive Stacy to see her sister,” he said. “We were going to go for the day and would be back that night but her husband wouldn’t let her go with me.
“It didn’t make sense because we were going to see her sister and he wouldn’t let her go.”
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/634423,6_1_NA04_PETERSON_S2.article