Nov 20, 2007 5:15 am US/Central
Drew Peterson's Mother Speaks Out
Says She's "Ashamed" Of Stacy Peterson For Leaving Her Son
BOLINGBROOKE, Ill. (CBS) ―
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Drew Peterson spoke with local and national reporters no less than three times Monday; all to tell his side of the story. (File)
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Drew Peterson's mother is speaking out to defend her son. She tells the Chicago Sun-Times she believes her daughter-in-law, Stacy Peterson, left her family to be with another man.
Meanwhile, CBS station WBBM-TV reports that Drew Peterson, the man who claims to be a victim of the media, has become a man of the media.
Drew Peterson spoke with local and national reporters no less than three times Monday; all to tell his side of the story.
His mother spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times Monday and the newspaper's headline on Tuesday read: "Drew's Mom's Message To Stacy: 'I'm ashamed of her for putting her family through this.'"
Drew Peterson's mother, Betty Morphey, also said, "I could swear on a bible that he would never hurt anyone at any time."
For his own part, when Peterson was asked by reporters on Monday "What's the hurt and pain," he laughed and said "The hurt and pain is all the media in front of my house, that's the hurt and pain."
Not that his wife is missing? "Yeah, it is the wife is missing, but right now, look at what's going on here."
The disappearance of Stacy Peterson more than three weeks ago put Drew Peterson in the center of a media storm, one he says he's trying to help his children weather. Police have named him a suspect in Stacy's disappearance.
"Sometimes I have heart to hearts with them individually and try to explain it to them the best I can, but that's the best I can do," Drew Peterson said.
Call it one way to deal with all the attention he's getting for Stacy's case and for the re-investigation of the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Officials returned her body to its grave Monday after exhuming it for further autopsy work.
The result of two new autopsies? A forensic pathologist hired by the family has said he believes Savio's death was actually homicide.
A Will County Coroner's jury originally ruled it accidental. Their second autopsy confirmed it was a drowning, but has yet to rule on whether the death was accidental or murder.
Drew Peterson answered questions about reports of possible ties he might have had to someone on that jury.
"It's nothing that I called him or asked him to do ... I wasn't even aware he was on that jury," he said."
The former Bolingbrook police sergeant also took time to defend what some have criticized as odd behavior on his part.
"I've joked all my life. This is my way of dealing with hurt and pain is I joke, I laugh. I could stand here and cry for you, would that make you happy? This is who I am. I'm doing the best I can."
Peterson also posed for a spread in People Magazine on Monday.
He has said he believes Stacy, a mother of two, left him for another man and he has denied any involvement in Savio's death.
Meanwhile, WBBM-TV has learned Drew Peterson's new attorney Joel Brodsky was disciplined three years ago for failing to deposit money for a client in a separate trust account.
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