Feb 8, 2009 9:21 pm US/Central
Drew Peterson: 'Innocent People Go To Jail'
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Drew Peterson in his Bolingbrook home opened up to CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli about Peterson's recent breakup with Christina Raines. (Feb. 6, 2009)
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"A good father, a good man."
That's how Drew Peterson describes himself. Prosecutors call him a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson.
He's also being investigated in connection with the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in a bathtub.
Peterson, who maintains his innocence, said he doesn't know if he'll ever do time in connection with those events.
"Innocent people go to jail all the time," he told CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli. "And guilty people get set free, so I don't know."
Peterson said he's been railroaded by the media.
"In the court of public opinion, I believe everybody has me guilty," he said.
Some members of that court care enough to write, and it's not all hate mail.
Peterson says he gets several letters a week. One is from a man in Maple Park who tells him to keep fighting and that he's getting a raw deal.
But right now Peterson has to deal with evidence stacked up against him that could be provided by two men –- Neil Schori and Thomas Morphey.
Sources believe Morphey helped Peterson dispose of Stacy Peterson's body on the day she disappeared.
"I think (Morphey has) attempted to take his own life a few times, and now all of a sudden he's become a hero to his family when before he was nothing but a loser to his family," Peterson.
Neil Schori is Stacy Peterson's pastor. He's gone on the record to say she told him that Drew Peterson killed Kathleen Savio.
"If that was actually said to him, why didn't he come forth and say something back then?" Peterson said. "Instead of saying, 'Go home and make it work with your husband. If I was any type of minister or law enforcement official and someone told that to me, I would get that woman out of the house and to a safe place."
Stacy Peterson didn't get out of the house until she disappeared without a trace some 15 months ago.
Neither Pastor Schori nor Morphey is talking to the media. But sources say Morphey never attempted to take his life until the day Stacy Peterson disappeared, out of fear of what he might have helped Drew Peterson do.
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