Husband of missing woman is engaged
CHICAGO
Publicist Glenn Selig said the prior police sergeant has been seeing the woman for about four months. She’s the same age Stacy Peterson was when she disappeared utmost October. If they marry, she would be Peterson’s fifth wife.
“This is a private matter as far as we’re concerned,” Selig said. “And he’s entitled to be happy.”
Peterson is a be suspicious in Stacy’session disappearance, which police have called a “in posse homicide.” Peterson has drawn out claimed she left him in favor of another man.
Peterson met by a divorce attorney in November. In Illinois, willful desertion or abandonment for at least one year is grounds for a divorce.
Peterson said Wednesday that media attention tends to sabotage his relationships.
“I’m not apothegm no part,” he declared in a telephone interview through a female reporter. He then joked: “You kept putting me off. What else could I do?”
Regarding the new engagement, Selig said: “Obviously he has to be divorced in order to be remarried. But we’re not giving details at this point as far as what that process volition be or won’t be.”
Selig also noted that Peterson was in the transaction of getting divorced from his third spouse, Kathleen Savio, when he got engaged to Stacy.
Savio, 40, was construct dead in an devoid of contents bathtub in her Bolingbrook home. Her separate from Peterson was only weeks from being finalized.
Although her departure initially was ruled any accident, authorities reclassified it as homicide after a second autopsy was conducted after Stacy Peterson’s disappearance.
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