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the_archfiendIt doesn't surprise me that the Chicago area's most recent celebrity-grade murderer would probably not win too many prizes for humility or social graces; Drew Peterson has always come off as a terminally smug, preening creep (either before his arrest or after) and if you could convict people of murder on that basis, he'd be in real trouble. But that's not how the justice system works. What apparently did do him in was a combination of the their belief in Stacy Peterson's hearsay testimony and a certain decision to cover up the crime that Peterson probably shouldn't have made:
Jurors said they thought it was odd that Drew Peterson cleaned the bathtub the day after Kathleen Savio’s body was discovered.
"That is unusual; they did say murderers sometimes clean up afterward," Teresa Mathews said. "It did seem unusual that he did it."
Yeah, playing the role of Mr. Clean around the scene where your wife "accidentally" died comes off as being just a bit suspicious, doesn't it?
The bruises on Savio’s body were also telling, Mathews said.
"There was too many bruises on too many parts of the body" for it to be an accidental fall, she said.
"Her position in the tub, that's what dictated to us that it wasn't a fall," juror Jeremy Masters said.
Considering that these jurors were also dealing with a non-stop media circus from the word go and several embarassing incidents of the prosecution just plain screwing up (translation: potential mistrials), Peterson didn't escape with his smirk intact. Far from it.
The only question remaining is this: where is Stacy Peterson?
Jurors said they thought it was odd that Drew Peterson cleaned the bathtub the day after Kathleen Savio’s body was discovered.
"That is unusual; they did say murderers sometimes clean up afterward," Teresa Mathews said. "It did seem unusual that he did it."
Yeah, playing the role of Mr. Clean around the scene where your wife "accidentally" died comes off as being just a bit suspicious, doesn't it?
The bruises on Savio’s body were also telling, Mathews said.
"There was too many bruises on too many parts of the body" for it to be an accidental fall, she said.
"Her position in the tub, that's what dictated to us that it wasn't a fall," juror Jeremy Masters said.
Considering that these jurors were also dealing with a non-stop media circus from the word go and several embarassing incidents of the prosecution just plain screwing up (translation: potential mistrials), Peterson didn't escape with his smirk intact. Far from it.
The only question remaining is this: where is Stacy Peterson?
