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Http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...&TM=40782.3 4/7/2008 11:13:00 AM Police: No Link Between Barrel, Peterson Jason Miller The News-Dispatch LONG BEACH - Things wash up on Lake Michigan's shores all the time, but a blue barrel that showed up at Stop 31 in Long Beach on Sunday alarmed residents and police. Long Beach officer Toby Bailey said Sunday he was called to the stop around noon after nearby residents called about the barrel, which fit the description of one made infamous in the high-profile case of a missing Bolingbrook, Ill., woman. Stacey Peterson went missing in October 2007, and an alleged witness told police he helped Peterson's husband - retired police officer Drew Peterson - dispose of a large plastic blue barrel shortly after. Babcock, though, said the barrel contained "nothing but lake water" when a La Porte County HAZ-MAT team opened it shortly after noon. "As general procedure, we cordoned off the area as a crime scene, just in case, and called the Illinois State Police, what with all that (the Peterson case) going on," Babcock said.

"They said they've gotten so many reports of blue barrels since that all started that we should just let them know what we found." A Long Beach resident who was walking along the beach with relatives Sunday afternoon said she'd seen the barrel Saturday night during a walk, but noticed it was gone Sunday. The woman, who wouldn't give her name, said she also was curious about two sets of tire tracks and several large paw prints that surrounded the area where she saw the barrel. "We saw it yesterday.

It looked like it was made out of plastic," she said.

"And, we noticed all those tire tracks and look at those prints.

Something went on here."

Http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldn...RSON_S1.article Did Peterson grand jury hear barrel story? April 11, 2008 By JOE HOSEY Staff Writer The man who went on television and claimed Drew Peterson's stepbrother showed up at his door and blurted out that he helped the Bolingbrook cop get rid of his missing wife's body was called before the grand jury Thursday. Walter Martineck, a neighbor and friend of Peterson's stepbrother, Thomas Morphey, declined to discuss his grand jury appearance. In December, Martineck was more talkative and went on the network news show "Dateline" to detail his late October conversation with Morphey. Hours after Peterson's wife, Stacy Peterson, was last seen alive Oct.

28, Morphey showed up at his front door, Martineck said, and told him, "I think I just helped move Stacy with Drew." Martineck said Morphey told him, "We lifted a blue container out of -- out of his room down into his truck." Martineck asked Morphey how he knew Stacy was in the container, and said his friend told him the container was "warm." "And the way he said 'warm,' it's like it was warm," Martineck said. Peterson was not impressed by Martineck's appearance at the grand jury, or what he had to say on television months ago. "Oh, brother, that goofy guy," Peterson said.

"You have one goofy guy giving information to another goofy guy." Son suspended Martineck's appearance at the grand jury reviewing the disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, and the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, came a day after the Oak Brook Fire and Police Commission suspended Peterson's police officer son, Stephen Peterson, for eight days. Stephen Peterson, an Oak Brook cop, drove his marked squad car to Joliet in December to appear before the grand jury reviewing the fates of his stepmothers. He also showed up in his police uniform and was filmed by television crews. Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheahan said he sought the suspension because Stephen Peterson attracted negative attention to the department.

Stephen Peterson's attorney, Tamara Cummings, said Thursday she may appeal the board's decision.

Family member defends stepbrother of Drew Peterson Ex-cop's relative had told brother, neighbor that he helped move container on night Stacy Peterson disappeared By Matthew Walberg | Tribune reporter 10:59 PM CDT, April 15, 2008 Spurred by the most recent national TV appearance in which Drew Peterson sought to discredit a stepbrother who said he and Peterson moved a large container the night Peterson's wife vanished, the man's brother said the public needs to know what's really happening. Tom Morphey, Peterson's stepbrother, has put his life on hold, spending nearly six months in seclusion, as he tries to help authorities investigating the disappearance of the former Bolingbrook police sergeant's wife, said his brother John. "Tom's not a whack job," John Morphey said in his first public interview.

"It just kills me to see and hear this stuff about him.

Drew says [Tom's] a liar, but Tom was coming forward with his story to me and to other people before Stacy was even reported missing." Tom Morphey, 40, has been in protective custody.

His brother, 41, said Drew Peterson enlisted Tom's help to remove a large blue container from the Peterson home Oct.

28,the night Stacy, then 23, vanished. Authorities have called her disappearance a possible homicide and Peterson a suspect.

But Peterson, 54, who has not been charged, says his wife left for another man.

Peterson has downplayed Tom Morphey's account, saying he has a drinking problem and struggles with mental illness. "I really don't want to bad-mouth Tommy," he said Friday night in an interview with CNN's Larry King.

"He has some serious emotional issues.

He was losing his house, losing his wife.

He had a drinking problem.

He had a suicidal problem.

So I really—and he is a family member—so I really don't want to bad-mouth him here." John Morphey said his brother told him substantially the same story that he told his friend and neighbor, Walter Martineck, who went public with his account in December. John Morphey said his brother told him that he met Drew at a coffee shop near Peterson's home on the night of Oct.

28. They talked awhile, then Peterson drove Tom Morphey to a nearby park and left him with a cell phone and instructions not to answer if it rang, his brother said.

Peterson drove off.

After awhile, the phone rang, and the name "Stacy" appeared on the caller ID, Morphey said. "I believe he set my brother up with that phone call," John Morphey said. When Peterson returned, the two men reportedly went to his house and moved the container from the home to the back of Peterson's 2005 GMC Yukon.

John Morphey said his brother told him Peterson seemed very nervous as he drove him back to his home, a few minutes away in Bolingbrook. The following evening, Tom attempted suicide, John Morphey said. "I was on the phone that night when my brother swallowed those pills," he said.

"He told me, 'That's it, I'm done.

I'm taking a bunch of pills.

[Peterson] is going to get me anyway.' "He said that he thought he may have inadvertently helped dispose of Stacy's body," John Morphey said.

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing." John Morphey said he quickly hung up the phone and called 911, and paramedics took his brother to a hospital for treatment. Morphey noted that for almost six months he has not spoken about Peterson or his brother, but after testifying for two hours Thursday before a special grand jury investigating Stacy's disappearance—and after seeing Peterson's CNN interview—he wanted to counter what he said is an inaccurate portrait of his brother. Morphey acknowledged his brother struggled with alcoholism and manic depression but said he quit drinking after completing a six-month rehabilitation program in the mid-1990s and began taking medicine for depression. "He became this totally different person.

He became a different Tom, a Tom I'm proud of," John Morphey said.

"He has a past, like anybody, but for the past 10 years or so, he's been a responsible citizen, taking care of [his longtime girlfriend's] three boys, showing them right from wrong." John Morphey said he believes Peterson reached out to Tom for help because he has always been too trusting and loyal.

"He doesn't say no to people, even when he should," John Morphey said.

"He's loyal to a fault.

Put it this way: His sophomore year of high school, he was playing football [at Hinsdale South High School] and one of the guys on his team picked up the ball and ran the wrong way.

Tom blocked for him." For his part, John Morphey said he supports the search efforts led by Stacy Peterson's sister, Cassandra Cales, and Roy Taylor, the son of Drew Peterson's neighbor. "Cassandra and Roy are heroes," he said.

"I'm behind them 100 percent." He recently let searchers use a boat he and Tom, both avid fishermen, restored together.

Embedded in the varnish is a picture of John and his brother as young kids, holding up fish they'd caught. "We are very happy that we have his support in finding Stacy," said Pam Bosco, a spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's relatives.

"I think it makes a big statement on the case, and backs up what we've been saying all along." Peterson's neighbor, Sharon Bychowski, said John Morphey called several weeks ago. "He said, 'I would like to offer you my boat.' It's been used pretty much every day this week," she said. Morphey said he believes his brother will be "thrilled" to know the boat is being used to help find Stacy. "The boat's a lot like my brother.

When we got it, people didn't think it could ever amount to anything, and now it's being used for such an honorable purpose as this." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/c...0,1549239.story

Quote: http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heral....RSON_S1.article Peterson's stepbrother is back home Recommended (1) Comments November 1, 2008 By JOE HOSEY Staff Writer and DAN ROZEK BOLINGBROOK -- A potential key piece to the Stacy Peterson puzzle is back in the neighborhood. Tom Morphey, the stepbrother of Drew Peterson and the man believed to have helped the serial marrier carry a suspiciously warm barrel out of his house hours after his fourth wife was last seen alive, is home again in Bolingbrook. Peterson even claims to have recently bumped into his stepbrother in a local Meijer store, and says his stepbrother was so scared he went "poof" and disappeared. Morphey's girlfriend, Sheryl Alcox, disputes this account.

She said she was with Morphey when they saw Peterson and, while Peterson has never been shy when he has seen her solo, he steered clear when he spotted her in the company of her live-in boyfriend. "He didn't come near us that time," Alcox said, adding, "Every single time he's walked up to me in that store when I was by myself." Morphey's tie-in State police named Drew Peterson a suspect in the "potential homicide" of his fourth wife, Stacy, who vanished just over a year ago. Shortly after she disappeared, reports claimed Morphey helped Peterson carry a warm, blue barrel from Peterson's bedroom to the driveway and his waiting Yukon Denali. Upon learning Stacy had been reported missing, Morphey was hospitalized after overdosing on sleeping pills.

Peterson visited him in Naperville's Edward Hospital. Morphey then became scarce. Alcox, at the time, said he was in "therapy." Other sources said he was in police protective custody.

Peterson has repeatedly said the authorities had put Morphey someplace to "dry out." If Morphey is an important element in unraveling the mystery of what happened to Stacy, he has yet to tell his story to the special grand jury empaneled for that very purpose nearly a year ago, Alcox said. Back home State police spokesman Lt.

Luis Gutierrez declined to comment on Morphey's role in the investigation or whether he had been in police custody. "We're not going to give that information out," Gutierrez said.

"We can't comment on that issue." Regardless of where he has been, Morphey is back now in his Thistle Drive home.

Alcox would not say where Morphey was when he was gone, or why he wasn't, but said the separation from her boyfriend was difficult. And Morphey was not the only one displaced after Stacy disappeared. "Me and my kids had to be gone for a while," Alcox said. 'She was fantastic' Alcox said she met Stacy Peterson soon after taking up with Morphey in 2000. "Stacy, yeah, she was wonderful, she was fantastic," Alcox said as she insisted the young mother would never abandon her children to run off with another man, as Drew Peterson has accused her of doing. Even though her boyfriend has returned home, Alcox has said her life has not returned to normal. She does not know if it ever will, unless Peterson is charged with Stacy's murder, she said. "I pray to God he will be," she said.

"I'll be in court every day."

Quote: http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/1255166,CST-NWS-boling02.article Months later, step-brother of Drew Peterson returns Said to have helped him move blue barrel Recommend (1) Comments November 1, 2008 BY DAN ROZEK AND JOE HOSEY Staff Reporters drozek@suntimes.com After disappearing for months, former Bolingbrook police Sgt.

Drew Peterson's step-brother has resurfaced in Bolingbrook, attending the one-year anniversary vigil for Peterson's missing fourth wife, Stacy. Thomas Morphey had gone into seclusion last November after sources reported he allegedly helped Drew Peterson load a large, blue barrel into Peterson's SUV on the day 23-year-old Stacy vanished from the couple's Bolingbrook home. Peterson has been named a suspect in the still-unsolved Oct.

28, 2007, disappearance of his wife but has not been charged in that case. The day after Stacy Peterson vanished, Morphey was hospitalized for a suspected overdose of sleeping pills, then disappeared from public view.

Sources said the 40-year-old Morphey had been placed in protective police custody, but authorities never confirmed those reports. Morphey reappeared this past week but could not be located for an interview.

His girlfriend, Sheryl Alcox, wouldn't say where he was or why he's back at the couple's Bolingbrook house.

Previously, she had said he was receiving "therapy." Morphey could be a key witness for authorities investigating Stacy Peterson's disappearance, but Alcox and a law enforcement source said he hasn't appeared before a special grand jury trying to determine what happened to her. Illinois State Police Lt.

Luis Gutierrez declined to comment about Morphey. Alcox said she and Morphey already have run into Drew Peterson at a local store, but neither man spoke to the other. "He didn't come near us that time," Alcox said. Joe Hosey is a reporter for the Joliet Herald News.

Peterson's step-brother: Drew is guilty February 15, 2009 By MIKE PUCCINELLI CBS 2 Chicago John Morphey says his brother, Tom, believes Drew Peterson killed his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. Drew Peterson has long been considered a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy.

And while he's gone before the cameras many times, the man many consider to be the linchpin of the case against Peterson has never talked publicly. After Stacy Peterson disappeared, Thomas Morphey also disappeared for months.

But he was being hidden away, sources say, by police. His brother, John Morphey, will only say he was in a safe place.

But on the crucial issue of what happened on the evening of Oct.

28, 2007, he's saying a lot more. Sources say Tom Morphey helped Drew Peterson move a barrel containing Stacy Peterson's body from an upstairs bedroom into the back of her husband's Yukon Denali. Tom Morphey has been ordered by investigators not to talk to the media.

So, his brother, John, is talking for a man who many consider to be the main witness in case.

The brother said his sibling's conscience is bothering him. "I think he would do anything to take back the events of that night," John Morphey, of St.

Charles, said. What made him think Stacy was inside that barrel? "He said he just knew," John Morphey said. He says his brother's conscience was bothering him so much on the day after he helped Drew Peterson move the blue barrel that he ended up in a hospital after taking a handful of pills and attempting to kill himself. "He realized what he had done that night by helping dispose of Stacy's body and realized that Drew would probably do whatever it took to keep him quiet," John Morphey said.

"He thought he would kill him or his family." Peterson says that's ridiculous and that Tom, who is his step-brother, has mental health issues. "He's attempted to take his own life a few times," Peterson told CBS 2 recently.

"And now all of a sudden he's become a hero to his family when before he was nothing but a loser to his family." John Morphey says that's a lie and his brother never tried to kill himself before that day.

And he says Peterson never showed any real concern for Tom until after his suicide attempt and showed up at his step-brother's hospital bed on the same day Stacy was reported missing to police. "On the day his wife went missing, what motivated him to go to the hospital to visit my brother?" John Morphey said.

"Everyone can draw their own conclusions." Does Tom Morphey think Drew Peterson murdered Stacy? "He doesn't think -- he knows that (Drew) murdered Stacy," John Morphey said. Drew Peterson says there never was a blue barrel and that Stacy Peterson abandoned her kids for another man. Source: http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervi...RSON_S1.article

Http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/drew.pet...m.2.942277.html Brother Of Witness In Drew Peterson Case Speaks John Morphey says his brother, Tom, believes Drew Peterson killed his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. He may be a key witness in the investigation of Stacy Peterson.

On the night she disappeared, Tom Morphey claimed he helped Drew Peterson move a barrel into the former Bolingbrook police sergeant's truck.

The next day, Tom tried to kill himself, but survived.

Tom isn't talking to the media.

But his brother John is - only with CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli. Tom Morphey is the man who says he helped Drew Peterson carry a barrel from his upstairs bedroom into a truck.

A barrel that investigators believe contained the body of Stacy Peterson.

Tom Morphey has been ordered not to talk by investigators so his brother John is speaking for him. Puccinelli: "What did your brother tell you about that night and what he did? John Morphey: "He thought he helped dispose of Stacy's dead body in a blue barrel." That was on October 28, 2007 - the last day Stacy Peterson was seen alive. Puccinelli: "What made him think Stacy was inside that barrel? John Morphey: "He said he just knew." John Morphey says his brother has no idea where Drew Peterson drove with the barrel. Puccinelli: "Does your brother think Drew murdered Stacy. John Morphey: "He doesn't think - he knows." Drew Peterson has been charged with no crime and says he's innocent.

But John Morphey says his brother believes Peterson thought about killing his wife and then did just that. Puccinelli: "Sources say that Drew had a conversation with your brother where he said Stacy was becoming a problem that he needed to take care of.

Did your brother say he had a conversation that went like that? John Morphey: "Yes." Puccinelli: "Can you tell me anything more about it?" John Morphey: "I wish I could." Sources say it was in a Bolingbrook park where a so-called problem conversation took place. Hours before Tom Morphey says he helped Peterson load the barrel into his truck, John Morphey says his brother was asked by Peterson to hold his cell phone and wait for him in the park.

He was instructed not to answer the phone.

After waiting a while, the phone rang two separate times indicating Stacy was calling.

John Morphey says his brother believes Drew Peterson actually made those calls. Puccinelli: "Does he think Drew made those calls to cover his tracks? John Morphey: "I don't know the answer to that question." Puccinelli: "Is it a question you don't know the answer of or is it a question you can't answer?" John Morphey: "I can't answer it." John Morphey says his brother would never have wittingly done anything to harm Stacy.

Now he says his brother will do anything to see to it that Drew Peterson is convicted and never released from prison. Drew Peterson says there is no blue barrel and that Tom Morphey is making the whole story up.

Peterson says Morphey has mental and substance abuse issues and wants to make himself into a hero.

Exclusive: Immunity deal offered in Peterson case March 6, 2009 By JOE HOSEY BOLINGBROOK -- Details have emerged about prosecutors' offer of a free pass to the man who may have unwittingly acted as Drew Peterson's accomplice in allegedly disposing of his wife's body, so long as he sticks to the truth, his original statement and did not play a part in actually killing the missing woman. The Herald News has obtained a copy of the immunity deal inked by State's Attorney James Glasgow for Thomas Morphey in exchange for his testimony. Glasgow signed the immunity agreement more than 17 months ago, yet sources say Morphey has never appeared before the grand jury investigating the disappearance of Peterson's wife, Stacy Peterson. Glasgow made the agreement offer on Halloween 2007, three days after Stacy, who is Peterson's fourth wife, was last seen alive and likely while Morphey was still hospitalized following an Oct.

29 suicide attempt. Morphey overdosed on sleeping pills after he learned Stacy vanished and he feared he may have something to do with her disappearance, sources said.

Morphey's suspicions were based on his helping Peterson carry a blue barrel out of his stepbrother's bedroom, down the stairs, outside to the driveway and into the back of his waiting Yukon Denali the night of Oct.

28, sources said. Not only that, police sources allege Morphey assisted Peterson in a scheme to set cell phone towers pinging near the home of her friend Scott Rossetto, a male nurse living in Shorewood.

The sources said they suspected Peterson was trying to frame Rossetto for doing away with Stacy. Peterson is believed to have left his cell phone with Morphey in Bolingbrook, then went to Shorewood with Stacy's cell phone.

Peterson is alleged to have called his own cell with Stacy's from Shorewood to leave a record of the call, sources said. After Morphey was released from Edward Hospital in Naperville, where Peterson says he paid his stepbrother a visit, he vanished from his Bolingbrook home.

His girlfriend, Sheryl Alcox, said at the time that Morphey was in "therapy." Peterson has repeatedly said the authorities put Morphey, who has struggled with substance abuse, someplace to "dry out." Morphey is back in his Thistle Drive home and has been for months.

He declined to discuss his immunity agreement -- or anything else relating to the Peterson case -- on the record. Immunity deal The immunity agreement signed by Glasgow is contingent on Morphey making a "full, truthful and complete statement of all information he has concerning the disappearance of Stacy Peterson and the activities of himself and Drew Peterson immediately prior to and including the weekend of October 27th, 2007.

Thomas Morphey will also testify consistently with his statement and truthfully in any future court proceedings relating to the disappearance of Stacy Peterson." But if Morphey gets caught lying or holding back on his story regarding his "information and knowledge of the kidnapping or murder of Stacy Peterson, or if any evidence emerges indicating that Thomas Morphey personally participated in the murder of Stacy Peterson, this agreement shall be null and void." Peterson laughed when told of the immunity offer for his stepbrother and said, "Un (expletive) believable." He would not elaborate. Charles B.

Pelkie, the spokesman for the state's attorney's office, declined to comment on Morphey's immunity deal. Peterson is the sole suspect in the state police investigation of Stacy's disappearance.

State police Capt.

Carl Dobrich called the young woman's disappearance a "potential homicide." The state police also are investigating the 2004 homicide of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found drowned in a dry bathtub. State police originally failed to find anything suspicious about Savio's case when they first investigated it and her death was eventually ruled accidental.

Soon after Stacy disappeared, authorities determined Savio was the victim of a homicide and the state police give them another chance at figuring out who killed her. http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldn...O030509.article

I'm glad that they are offering this poor guy complete immunity.

It's pretty clear why Drew chose him to help. Little

I'm not sure how much the deal is really worth though, unless he actually saw Stacy's body.

It seems like all he can testify to is that he helped transport a barrel and dispose of it, and that he received a phone call on Stacy's phone.

Chances are, wherever he and Drew left the barrel, Drew most likely moved it almost immediately. I think the phone call testimony might carry some weight, since Drew claims the call was from Stacy.

If Morphey says under oath that he spoke to Drew on that call, then it could at least create a doubt for a jury.

Peterson's Stepbrother Breaks Silence Last Edited: Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009, 6:58 PM CDT Created On: Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009, 5:51 PM CDT By LILY FU, MyFox National NEW YORK - The stepbrother of Drew Peterson says he believes he helped Peterson dispose of his fourth wife's body. Tom Morphey told the Herald News that he helped Peterson load a blue barrel, which he suspects contained Stacy Peterson's remains, onto a truck. Stacy has been missing since October 2007 and her disappearance is being considered a "potential homicide." But Morphey says there is nothing "potential" about Stacy being involved in the homicide. The night before Peterson asked Morphey for help with the blue barrel, Morphey said Peterson had a talk about Stacy.

According to Morphey, Peterson told him that Stacy was cheating on him and that "he had to take care of the problem." Morphey assumed that Peterson meant he was going to kill her boyfriend. "I didn’t think for a minute he was going to try to kill her," Morphey said.

But then Peterson asked him how much he loved him and whether he would kill for him. Morphey answered no.

Then Peterson asked, "Could you live with knowing about it?" And Morphey responded, " Yeah, I guess," adding that he always figured Peterson had killed his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Savio was found dead in a bathtub in March 2004 and was initially ruled as accidental, but only recently was ruled a homicide. Morphey attempted suicide shortly after the night he helped Peterson move the barrel, but instead has had to live with what's happened. "It kills me," Morphey said.

"There's not a day that goes by that I don't wish I could take back the events of that day." Morphey has been offered immunity by police to tell his story, but has yet to tell it to a grand jury. Source: http://www.myfoxal.com/dpp/news/dpgo_drew_...pbrother2245221

Stepbrother: Drew tries to discredit me March 11, 2009 By JOE HOSEY BOLINGBROOK — If he is supposed to be such an unreliable, delusional, mentally ill alcoholic, Thomas Morphey wants to know, then why has Drew Peterson gone to such lengths to discredit him? "From the very beginning, they have done nothing but paint me in a certain light," said Morphey, the stepbrother of the celebrated murder suspect.

"If there was nothing to hide, why would they go to the extremes that they have?" It might have something to do with Morphey recently accusing Peterson of asking him to kill for him the day before Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, was last seen alive. And on the next day — Oct.

28, 2007 — Morphey said he helped Peterson carry a blue barrel out of the Peterson home and down to a waiting sport utility vehicle.

Morphey believes Stacy Peterson's body was in the barrel. Morphey said the experience left him despondent and fearful for the welfare of his longtime girlfriend and her three children.

He attempted suicide two days after Stacy vanished, he said, in hopes they might escape Peterson's malice. Morphey survived the drug overdose.

The next day, he said, State's Attorney James Glasgow offered him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony.

The Herald News has obtained a copy of the immunity offer, which demands the full story of what he was up to with Peterson the weekend of Oct.

27, 2007, along with his disclosure of any knowledge he has of the "kidnapping or murder of Stacy Peterson." Peterson's pattern Since then, Morphey said, Peterson and his attorney Joel Brodsky have done their best to smear and discredit him. In fact, Brodsky held a press conference Tuesday in Chicago in which he questioned why Morphey has not gone before the grand jury and his viability as a witness. "If they found him credible, (Morphey) would have been one of the first witnesses they would have brought in and they would have based the entire investigation and the entire case on his testimony," Brodsky said at the news conference called to rebut Morphey's first public allegations against his stepbrother that were first reported in The Herald News. Morphey said he sees a pattern in this, with Peterson ripping anyone who dares speak ill of him — including ex-wives, a former fiancee, a minister and two friends, Len Wawczak and Paula Stark, who worked with the state police to record his conversations. "It's been anyone who has anything negative to say from the get-go," Morphey said. Morphey also accused Peterson and his friend, Steve Carcerano, of paying one of Morphey's former girlfriends $500 for photographs depicting Morphey in a less than favorable light. Brodsky, without success, attempted to distribute the photographs, one of which allegedly showed Morphey smoking marijuana.

The woman, Holly Steele, confirmed in September that she sold the photographs to Peterson and Carcerano. Carcerano said he remembers accompanying Peterson to purchase photographs of Morphey but did not know the name of the woman they obtained them from.

He also disputed the $500 price tag for the pictures but did not give a figure for them. Morphey described the picture ploy as "the stunt that they tried to pull in the beginning, buying 10-year-old pictures and trying to make them seem recent." More witnesses? Despite the backlash from Peterson and Brodsky, Morphey said he has no regrets about breaking his 17-month silence to go public about the role he believes he played in Stacy Peterson's disappearance. "I feel like a weight's been lifted," he said. And Morphey hinted there may be more potential Peterson witnesses going public. "I don't think it will be too long before Len (Wawczak) and Paula (Stark) have had enough where they say what they need to say," he said. http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldn...o031009.article

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