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Apr 12, 2008 5:15 pm US/Central
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Stacy Peterson's Family Speaks Out During Search
Drew Peterson's Chat With Larry King Upsets Stacy's Family
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (CBS) ―
The family of Stacy Peterson is outraged by a TV interview with her husband, Drew Peterson. During a search Saturday, they called his comments on "Larry King Live" a bunch of lies.
CBS 2's West Suburban bureau chief Mike Puccinelli reports on the family's reaction.
Family and loved ones of Stacy Peterson gathered in Bolingbrook Saturday to search for the missing mother and to respond to Drew Peterson's latest turn before national television cameras.
"Drew and Mr. Brodsky's appearances in the spotlight is only for profit in the future," said family spokesperson Pamela Bosco. "Notoriety to be built upon, so that in the future there might be possible book deals."
They say the former Bolingbrook sergeant and named suspect in his wife's disappearance, used his appearance on "Larry King Live" to lie about Stacy Peterson and his past.
"I kind of challenge anybody out there to find anybody that has ever seen me mad," Drew Peterson said on King's show.
Cassandra Cales accepted that challenge today.
"I have seen him, personally, throw my sister across the room," she said.
And Cales says just last week the former police sergeant unleashed a profanity-laced tirade against her after she spoke with Stacy's young son outside the home.
"He was red and he was screaming," Cales said. "If that's not mad, I don't know what is."
Peterson also denied that he'd ever been physical with any of his wives including Kathleen Savio, who two pathologists have said was murdered in a bathtub.
"If I get involved in a domestic situation where I'm physical with my wife, I'll lose my job -- and I wouldn't never even care to come close to risking that," Peterson said.
Family members say that's a lie and they point to more than a dozen domestic disturbance reports to police over the Peterson-Savio marriage as proof.
"He did have an emergency restraining order against him, against him from Kathleen Savio that he would have lost his job on if Kathleen had not had a kind heart and dropped those charges out of concern for their unborn child," Bosco said.
That child was later born to wife number four, Stacy Peterson who's now been missing for five months.
The search for Stacy Peterson is set to resume Sunday morning. They'll be using sonar to search through bodies of water and volunteers to search on land. If you'd like to help out show up at the Bolingbrook Aquatic Center, 200 S. Lindsey Lane, at 9 a.m.
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