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>> judge jeanine: do you think he will testify? >> an option, something that you never really know until the state rests its case. and you have to make that decision at that time. >> judge jeanine: you have this 50-year-old married four times, one wife is dead. the other is missing and hasnt showed up in years. do you really think all this is a coincidence? >> coincidence -- coincidence the issue, the question is, is there any evidence that he ever did anything wrong? that he had any involvement...

Eventually, stacey tells friends and family, she wants out of the marriage. financially, reliant on drew, and afraid of losing her kids, she stays. the situation grows more and more tense until one week before stacey vanishes. >> she was out in the parkway crying she asked drew to leave and that he wouldnt go. >> judge jeanine: a few days later, the friends speak again. >> i suggested she start to do some kind of a journal or book so she could protect herself. she told me it was too late he was ...

With it for so many years. then he did everything he could to cover his tracks. all of a sudden he for to conceal the most important thing, the body? >> judge jeanine: was drew peterson ever charged with assaulting kathleen savio? >> never. >> judge jeanine: the police were called to that residence many times? >> i think there were 18 calls, if i remember correctly. most of those calls are hes bringing the kid late back from visitation. hes 20 minutes late. very minor stuff. only a couple of tho...

Of your sister? >> yeah. >> judge jeanine: she is one strong witness. i see two nods, three, four way do you think mark? >> i talked to her in 2007. she was a tough cookie then, very straightforward very helpful but didnt mince words about drew peterson she didnt like him then and she absolutely said he did something with my sister, he killed my sister. >> judge jeanine: joey, after that interview she told me she often saw stacey with bruises on her body. she said stacey told her that drew had t...

Back. >> judge jeanine: evidence from that, quickly mark, why a coroners jury to answer arthur and joey eastern concern as opposed to a medical examiner in illinois? >> they had a medical examiner. they had an autopsy. the detective didnt need to go to a coroner he could have determined it was homicide. >> judge jeanine: why didnt he if it is so obvious? >> from everything as i learned it was drew peterson, one of the boys on the police department. [ talking over each other ] >> a gist draws tha...

Almost an repress able enjoyment of being the center of attention even though it is negative. >> judge jeanine: he just likes the attention? >> absolutely. look at i was there almost two months. you look at the way he orchestrates it, thats his game. thats how he kept everybody off balance, just like in the kathleen savio investigation. he kept everybody off balance by his act. he was the victim. im one of the guys. i want you to do this. why would she fall in the bathtub? who would do this or h...

You establish that she was dead in the bathtub and perhaps someone as at fault and i was a homicide. the next inquiry becomes was it name did it? thats where physical evidence is important also. >> judge jeanine: motive, means and opportunity, mark? >> we do have the statement that he places himself not only in kathleen savios house he says he committed the perfect crime. hes washing womens clothes and coaches his then wife stacey to lie to the police when they are talking specifically about kat...

Call me later. >> judge jeanine: brews is the last person to speak to her. -- bruce is the last person to speak to her. after that conversation something happens to stacey. >> i texted her later in the day, no response. >> judge jeanine: sharon calls late that morning. drew tells her stacey has gone to visit grandpa. sharon tries her cell, gets no answer that day, tom drews stepbrother reportedly helps drew move a large container from the peterson bedroom to an suv. it weighs around 120 pounds. ...

Anti-depressants. i think her neurologist testified that she had -- he had treated her for dizziness, i think he called it vertigo. >> judge jeanine: how do you explain the fact that your client called the mother of his children kathleen savio a bitch and he should have had her cremated? >> first they have to believe it. if hes the murderer hes going to know instead of paying to have the body buried he would have paid to have the body cremated it was his choice. >> judge jeanine: maybe he didnt ...

>> doctor? >> seems to fit his personality, i dont think he will be allowed. >> it depends on his lawyer and what his lawyer can and cant stop him from doing. when case goes to trial theres going to be a lot of interest in stacey and what happened to stacey. irrespective of what happens during the trial do you think he will be convicted? >> i think he will be convicted if the ministers conversation with stacey comes in totality if they dont pick it apart on hearsay. if it comes in totality at th...