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BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (CBS) ― Crews Friday were again searching a pond for the missing wife of a Bolingbrook police sergeant, and the woman's sister is afraid of what might have happened to her.

As CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports, Stacy Peterson was last seen on Sunday. Illinois State Police on Thursday searched the home she shared with her husband, Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson.

For a second straight day, divers scoured a retention pond near Clow Airport for any sign of Stacy Peterson. The 23-year-old hasn't been seen since Sunday morning when her husband, Sgt. Drew Peterson, says he last saw her.

It is located a short distance from their home on Pheasant Chase Court in Bolingbrook, and also near the business where Drew Peterson told family members that he found Stacy's car on Sunday night.

The veteran police officer said he believes Stacy is where she wants to be.

"Where she would want to be is with her kids," said Stacy's sister, Cassandra Cales.

Cales had been expecting her sister to help her paint with a friend on Sunday, but five hours after Stacy had been expected, she had not shown up. Cales said began "calling her cell phone, calling the house, I was calling everybody, and then finally I broke down and called Drew."

Cales says on the night Stacy disappeared, Drew left his four young kids home alone at 11 o' clock. She also says both cars were gone at that time. But, she says, they were back in the driveway three hours later. Cales said she reached Sgt. Peterson at 11:26 p.m. Sunday.

"I called him and I heard a bunch of noise and shuffling and car ignition keys like him starting a car," Cales said. "(Drew Peterson said), 'I went out running around looking for your sister. She left me,' I said, 'While what are you doing, where are you at?' He goes, 'I'm at home, where are you at?' I said, 'I'm at home in my garage,' sitting a couple blocks away."

Cales said she was certain Drew Peterson was lying when he said he was home, since she had just left the Peterson house. She went straight to police, who spent the Thursday executing warrants at the home.
Her friend called Drew Peterson, who claimed Stacy called him and told him where her car was.

"He's like, 'no she called me and told me the car's at whatchamacallit,'" Bruce Zidarich said. "I said 'Drew, what's whatchamacallit? Where'd she leave the car?' He said, 'Hold on, let me get my head straight.'"

He then claimed Stacy called him and told him her car was at the airport, and that she was flying to Jamaica with $25,000 in cash.

Cales says it's a lie and now she's haunted by her sister's last words, when she said Stacy asked her on Friday to search for her if she disappeared.

"That's what she told me, she was relying on me," Cales said. "And I'm not gonna stop until I find her, what happened."

Cales says Stacy planned to meet with a divorce attorney as early as Monday. Cales now fears her sister is dead.

"Something happened to her," Cales said.

Cales said she believed her sister was in danger and had in essence been stalked by her husband.

"When she told me Friday night she feared for her life, I was suspicious so I wanted to stay in contact her, so I saw her Saturday night," Cales said. "We spoke, we talked all day, we text messaged. When I left her Saturday night, she said she'd call me when she woke up. She never called, and I just got really worried."

"I'm doing what you asked," Cales said in tears. "I'm here to let you know that I will find you."

In an interview on The Early Show, Cales added that her greatest fear was "that he did something to her."

Drew and Stacy Peterson have been married for four years, and she was his fourth wife. In 2004 Sgt. Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in a bathtub just down the street from the Petersons' current home.

The home where the bathtub was located was just up the street. It was a whirlpool-style tub, and Savio's sister said Thursday she did not think it would be possible for her sister to drown in it.

The Will County Coroner's office ruled Savio's death an accident. The current Will County State's Attorney, James Glasgow, was not in office at the time of the incident, and has decided to take a second look.

Drew Peterson reportedly left the home earlier to "clear his head" and has not returned. The children staying elsewhere Friday night.

"I know in my heart there's no foul play," said Drew Peterson's friend, Rick Mims. "I want to say that one more time. I know in my heart there's no foul play. I stand by my friend."


CBS 2's Pamela Jones contributed to this report.

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