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BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (CBS) ― The word "pig" was scrawled Friday night in the snow in Drew Peterson's front yard. A young woman who called herself "Jen" did it.

"Because that's what he is," she said. "A complete pig."

She said she came to the house specifically to write that in the snow because "this is disgusting. This is breaking my heart about Stacy."

Moments after she and a friend sped away, Peterson left his house and talked about the incident.

"Everybody's entitled to their own opinion," he said. "It's a free country."

Peterson also offered up a scathing review of Friday afternoon's "Dr. Phil" show, on CBS. It was a special about the case of Peterson's missing wife, Stacy Peterson, called "A Killer Among Us?"

"Dr. Phil kind of ambushed me," Peterson said. "He talked to me on the phone and he sounded concerned, but Dr. Phil's selling papers too, so."

During the show the host described that phone interview with Peterson.

"He is playing the victim in this situation and at no time when I talked to him not one word of concern about his wife. Not one word of concern about his children," talk show host Phil McGraw said.

The show also featured Peterson's former fiancée, who described his rage against her.

"About two weeks after we broke up we got into an argument. It got physical and I ended up on the floor," she said. "He pushed me, he straddled me, he pinned me to the ground in a police hold, pressed his knees against my arms to keep me down."

The former fiancée went on "I could have ended up like Kathleen or Stacy. I guess I was lucky."

Drew Peterson's Shunned By Former Colleagues

The "Dr. Phil" show wasn't the only place Peterson was talked about. His face recently appeared on a piñata -- just begging someone to beat it with a stick -- and the former Bolingbrook police sergeant says his fellow officers have been shunning him.

Drew Peterson says his friends are scattering now that he's the focus of the investigation Stacy Peterson's disappearance and possible homicide.

"My real friends are still there," Peterson said to reporters Friday afternoon. "The guys that I thought were going to be there aren't. But everybody's afraid. Every time I make a phone call somebody's, you know. Somebody's getting interviewed."

And to top it off, a former close friend of Peterson's has acknowledged taking money from a tabloid weekly in exchange for his story about 23-year-old Stacy's disappearance.

The piñata appeared Saturday at a prayer vigil for Stacy, who has not been seen since she vanished Oct. 28.

"It's like they had this vigil for Stacy, and the next thing you know there's a piñata with my face on it," Peterson told the Chicago Tribune on Thursday. "All these policemen who were my friends, and I would have jumped in front of a bullet for, don't even talk to me."

Although he has not been arrested or charged, Drew Peterson, 53, has been named a suspect in the disappearance by Illinois State Police, who have labeled the case a possible homicide.

Peterson has not participated in any searches since Stacy disappeared and has contended she ran off with another man.

On Thursday, his former friend, Ric Mims, acknowledged selling his story of the disappearance to the National Enquirer.

Earlier in the day, Mims appeared before a special grand jury investigating the Stacy Peterson case.


Divers And Volunteers Plan To Keep Up Search Efforts

Meantime, state police are discounting a tip in the case involving two truck drivers. They told investigators that Peterson and another man asked them to take a package to an undisclosed location. Friday, state police said that claim was unfounded. But investigators are not giving up on the search for Stacy as the costs involved in looking for Stacy keep adding up.

John Karas, a diver for Lake County Divers Supply, Inc., has watched the progress of comrades submerged in the chilly waters of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. His colleagues did not search Friday, but they have spent about six days searching underwater for evidence in the Stacy Peterson case.

He said 'it's not easy.'

One Hobart, Ind. dive shop supplies gear for some of the divers working on the Peterson investigation and it supports a dive team that's worked on similar cases for decades. In January 2006, CBS 2 watched as the Aquatics Underwater Rescue and Recovery Unit plunged beneath a sheet of ice to search for a gun used in a murder in Gary, Ind. The murky water and debris proved treacherous.

"The underwater environment is going to pose a lot of threatening things for them such as currents, not only currents, but the water itself is going to be cold. They're going to have to deal with a lot of underwater entanglements," Karas said.

So the equipment and divers have to be even tougher. The vulcanized rubber dry suit, mask and other gear can cost from $4,500-$6,000 per diver. And we're told dozens of divers from several departments could take shifts in the search.

A huge devotion of resources CBS 2's Legal Analyst Irv Miller says is partly fueled by elements that set it apart from thousands of other missing persons and homicide investigations.

"We have a former police officer, and he has disgraced the badge and that's why all these police officers are doing their best - giving it all -- because he's disgraced the profession," Miller said.

Area prosecutors say much of the cost of an investigation like the Peterson one are costs paid everyday – like attorney salaries or state police wages. And a lot of the time, they're not totaled on a case-by-case basis. But if Illinois state police were using professional divers for hire, it could cost $45 an hour. Multiply that by at least four hours a day and that totals more than $1,000 per diver for six days of searching.

It's work Stacy Peterson's family says you can't put a price on.

CBS 2's Mike Parker and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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