Something Rotten in the State of Bolingbrook

Everything about the case of Drew Peterson, whose fourth wife Stacy Peterson has been missing for more than two weeks now, stinks to high heaven.

Drew met Stacy in 2001, when she was just 17 and he was 47 and still married two wife #3, Kathleen Savio.

In 2004, Kathleen turned up dead.

Now, normally when a wife who is divorcing her husband as Kathleen was turns up dead, apparently drowned in a bone-dry bathtub, the husband is an immediate suspect.

Fortunately for Drew Peterson, he is a sergeant in the Bolingbrook Police Department, and Kathleen's death raised no red flags.

Not even with Jeff "Law and Order" Tomczak, Republican State's Attorney for Will County at the time, and son of convicted City Hall insider Donald Tomczak.

"Law and Order" you may remember is the guy who tried to railroad Kevin Fox for the murder of his 3 year-old daughter, Riley.

While this Daily Herald story's headline screams "Tomczak in clear on Fox lawsuit", read between the lines in the story:

"Tomczak's attorney John Partelow declined to say why his client had been dropped from the suit. Fox's attorney Kathleen Zellner also said she was unable to comment on the dismissal against the former state's attorney"

Sounds an awful lot like an undisclosed settlement with a confidentiality agreement to me.

I hope the families of Stacy and Kathleen have hired great civil attorneys.

Update: Zorn adds his two cents.

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