Has Stacy Peterson Been Found? [Drew Peterson]

Radar Online ^ | 05/20/09

[BunnySlippers]

A barge crew discovered the remains of what is described as a “smallish female” wearing underwear in the Des Plaines River. A source told the Joliet (Ill.) Herald News that DNA testing will likely be needed to identify the body. Relatives of Stacy Peterson, who lived in nearby Bolingbrook, Ill., have been contacted by state police regarding the discovery. Stacy was the fourth wife of ex-Bolingbrook cop, Drew Peterson, who remains in custody on charges that he killed his third wife Kathleen Savio. Stacy has been missing since Oct. 28, 2007.

[Tennessee Nana]

THis story is much like that other Peterson murder...

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Wow, they just arrested him for the death of wife number 3 wierd time for this to happen.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Well it may be her, or he may have put her body elsewhere!

[Snurple]

Droop Peterson is way to smug for that to be Stacy. Whatever he did with her he is positive she wont be found.

[BunnySlippers]

If I had to guess, I’d say it’s not her. I think if she was in the river she would have appeared before, There are better places to hide her.

I’m hope I’m wrong.

[BunnySlippers]

Totally agree. Who better than a policeman to know where to hide a body?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Unfortunately there are a lot of young women who go missing in the US every year, it could be any one of them.

[Richard Kimball]

I've pulled bodies out that had been down from four hours to a week or so, and had one that had been down for five years. I've never recovered a body that had been underwater for 18 months. I have difficulty imagining them being able to identify a body as a female or tell what she was wearing.

The one that had been down for five years was in a car and was entirely bone fragments. If she hadn't been in a car, there's no way she would have been found.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

A good place would be in a car in an auto junkyard where they are crushed. Or a steel mill.

[Blogger]

But if she were in the blue barrel and the lid came off ala Lacey Petersen, the body might be more preserved???

[BunnySlippers]

I think most Americans would be shocked to know just how many people run away or are lost in a year.

[P-Marlowe]

Who better than a policeman to know where to hide a body?

A gravedigger.

[uptoolate]

From what had been reported on WLSAM890, the head and torso were not there and all they had was a badly decomposed lower half. I don’t know what’s left as far as genitals or pelvis after 18-24 months, but they did report the body was female.

I added the 24 months in because of missing Lisa Stebic of nearby Plainfield.

[Richard Kimball]

Definitely. Encasing a body preserves it. I'm no expert. I know a guy that teaches the forensic research end of it, I just pulled them out of the water.

Dumping someone in a river will decompose and spread the body quickly, but it will surface in a couple of days, before it has time to decompose and be consumed. They're more buoyant than most people think. They'll float cinderblocks, chains and small anchors. Encasing them preserves them in one place, though. Fortunately, I've never had to hide a body, so I haven't thought too much about how I'd do it.

[12Gauge687]

Could also be Lisa Stebic, who was missing the year before the announcement of Stacy’s disappearance.

[Richard Kimball]

If the body was under water, unless it was in a barrel or something, I just can't imagine anything soft being left. I suppose it's possible. In the area where I work, underwater critters eat just about anything. Bone structure can tell them a lot. They don't necessarily need soft tissue.

Again, on that end, I'm getting out of my depth. The five year old body we found, we identified through the license tag on the car, and the owner had been missing for five years. Not exactly rocket surgery.

[dalereed]

“A good place would be in a car in an auto junkyard where they are crushed. Or a steel mill.”

Better yet would be a grease rendering plant and she would have been sold for lanolin years ago and women all over the country would have smeared her all over themselves!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Creepy!

[mockingbyrd]

Just read over at websleuths.com that the body was found in a container. Sounds more and more like the Petersen case.