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another call. that was jurors reaction. >> just a few days after cassandra confronted him, drew peterson was making news again. >> and we begin with the arrest of former illinois police officer true peterson. >> true peterson was arrested not in connection with stacey's disappearance, but for the murder of his third wife, kathleen silvio, three years earlier. lastly cuter jim glasgow knew this would be no slam dunk. >> when i went to indict this case, ten out of the 12 attorneys with me said to not do it. >> why? because it was mostly circumstantial? >> because i knew we could prove it. i knew we couldn't. so we went ahead. >> normally, this is the walk of shame for the accused shuffles along, head down, ignoring reporters questions, but not in this case. when reporters shouted questions to peterson, is a face lit up as he joked about his current situation. odd? bizarre? it appears it was just drew being true. and within no time, even from jail, he was out there again

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included this shocking tidbit. drew's other woman was still in her teens. >> the thing that really stood out with kathleen was that she was a baby. she said, i do not understand why he would do this. >> come to find out, it was stacey. >> right, right. >> stacey, the future mrs. peterson. kathleen demanded a divorce. the house, and half of drew's pension. he oked the divorce, but not the terms. kathleen stood firm. >> she was a fighter. >> she was not going to give up. >> she was not going to give up, she was not going to let him win. she felt like she had the truth on her side. >> when stacey became pregnant, kathleen did make one concession. a divorce that allowed through to remarry, while lawyers worked out the finances. >> things only got worse. >> she would call me and say he would be watching her.

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from his missing wife. >> drew claimed that stacey left on her own. he said that she had taken cash and at the key, and abandon her four kids and husband to start a new life with a mystery man. but something did not add up for sister in law norma. >> why would you adopt two kids and then go off and leave all four for another man? that made no sense. >> it made no sense to the police either, who continued to investigate true. a family member told them that he helped drew remove a large blue barrel from the house the night stacey disappeared. >> he is convinced that he helped carry stacey's body down to drew's denali. he never saw a body, looked in the barrel, but -- >> another lead police followed was drew's phone. records showed it was near a canal just miles from drew and stacey's home that night. >> there would be no reason for him to be there, stacy's last night that she was seen. i know they searched the canal, that they did an extensive

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you in the morning? >> that never happened. it was odd to be sure, but the 23 year old mother had a lot on her plate. perhaps stacy was just too busy, even for cassandra. but after waiting hours, cassandra picked up her phone and dialed say see. >> her phone is never off. i do not care if she is watching the kids, or doing anything, she will answer. hey, i'm going to call you back. and she does. but, it went to voice mail and that is when my gut started going. >> as the hours ticked by and still no word from stacy, cassandra became increasingly alarmed. she reached out to other family members, stepsister carrie symonds. >> right away, when she said that she could not get a hold of, where we knew something was wrong. we all knew how close cassandra and stacey were, and of course we all felt the panic and the anxiety of, where is she?

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did she want you to go to the police? >> she certainly did not want me to, because i asked her and she said, i do not want you to do anything with my story, i just want you to know. i think things were really dire for her, by that point. i think that she probably sensed that she was in grave danger. >> it was the last time that he saw her, just before he disappeared. stacey also confided in her sister. >> stacy looked up to me and said, how do you feel about me getting a divorce? i said, i told her i was scared. she just looked up at me and was like, why? i just said, because of what happened to kathleen. that is when she told me, if anything happens to me, you know who did it. >> days later, stacey vanished. the pastor immediately thought the worst. >> i absolutely know, in my heart, what happened to her. i believe that through kilter. >> he knew that he had to tell someone about his last conversation with stacey, her story about kathleen's death. he called the police tip line. i knew that she had gone

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go ahead. >> we were very fortunate to have the attorney jim glasgow, a very strong man, would me very determined. >> two weeks after drew's fourth while stacey vanished, workers exhumed the body of his third kathleen. the pathologist got to work. >> he was able to show there were no bruises on the back of her arm where she fell backwards, and the national instinct to frail your arms, and no bruises on her back, or her buttocks. >> undercutting the original finding that kathleen had fallen just before her death. but there were bruises, -- >> she had 16 other fresh bruises on all four planes of her body. >> including her collarbone. >> there was the two bruises to her clavicle, identical bruises, how do you get those? nobody is going to come up and

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family fanned out to spread the word. stacy peterson was missing. within days, a massive volunteer effort to find stacey was underway. >> they had to put aside any motions we had, cassandra took it especially hard. her mom pam had stepped in to be the spokesperson, but there needed to be somebody who could be there every single day. there is just an overflow of people that wanted to donate, wanted to bring in supplies, wanted to help search. >> searchers blanketed the area. >> we had dozens of people that would come out every day. i think we started in boling brook and then would pick different places to meet, wherever we were deciding to search. combing fields, and woods, and rivers, and would take boats, use the docks. >> as the search for stacey's continued, stories began to emerge about her marriage. her much older husband, and what her husband's ex wives. stories that would soon transfixed the country. >> coming up. >> she was like i want to see my friend drew. >> i was like who's? drew >> she was only? 16 >> she was, 16. yes >> it was mid 40s when they met, drew peterson was old enough to be stacy peterson's father. >> we were shocked at who this man wasn't how lovey dovey he was to this. girl >> for me, it was like, what are you doing? >> and soon, stacey was playing house in a new apartment. >> everything that she could dream of, and where the -- did this come from? >> when dateline continues.

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to shy away from the media. >> i might need a job after this. >> the radio host says reporters hung on his every word. >> in my opinion, the lawyer was interested in promoting his name. everybody knows his name in chicago, now we didn't before, it worked. >> peterson now had a whole team of defense lawyers, attorney stephen greenberg was the last to join, and says he had a very different approach to speaking with the media. >> once i was in the case, there was no more of the shenanigans, there was no more calling the media or speaking to anyone. >> as both sides got ready for trial, prosecutors faced a major hurdle, they wanted to use witnesses to recount things both kathleen and stacey said to them about you. it is called hearsay testimony, but it is rarely allowed. >> and jupiter still knew from being a policeman, never give a hearsay statement that would die with the victim. >> prosecutor jim glasgow was

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out of drew. >> but the move backfired, the jury heard smith repeat the story of true confessing to stacey, that he killed kathleen, and this time, there was more. the details about you listening in on the phone call. >> harry smith said that stacey called me and she said she knew drew had committed this murder, and i could hear drew in the background yelling at her, and that was the last i heard of stacy. it is not so much what she said, but it is him yelling in the background i think that was almost more damning. >> disastrous, here was a defense witness reinforcing the pastors story, greenberg blamed lead attorney -- for gambling by putting smith on the stand. >> did you know he was going to say this?

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grieving relatives who wanted investigators to take a hard, long look at one of their own -- drew peterson. >> coming up, another gathering storm. >> how early on in their marriage did she confided in you? >> i knew that they were having difficulties. she did not hide any of that. >> i was on the couch one time, she came flying out of the room backwards and landed on her back. >> he threw her? >> he choked her. >> and stacey shares a secret. >> she just blurted out, she said, he did it. >> when dateline continues. (vo) if you have graves' disease, your eye symptoms could mean something more. that gritty feeling can't be brushed away. even a little blurry vision can distort things. and something serious may be behind those itchy eyes.

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