Remembering Stacy Ann Peterson

October 28, 2009: Today marks the second anniversary of the disappearance of Stacy Peterson.

Let’s try to remember this today and mark it in some way in our own lives. Her passing has meaning. Her absence is felt. Her family and friends mourn her, yet they have no closure and no justice.

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On October 28, 2007, after ending a phone call with a friend, Stacy Ann Peterson was never seen nor heard from again. She’s lovingly and fondly remembered by her sister, family and friends as a wonderful, devoted mom, someone who loved to be with family, especially when gathering to celebrate a happy occasion, and someone who wouldn’t hesitate to help another, if needed. Stacy’s disappearance and ensuing story touched many people, including strangers who never knew or met her–strangers who devoted week after week to search for her, who became friends with her sister and family members, and vowed to keep looking for her until she was found.

Tuesday, October 27, the WE network show: “Secret Lives of Women” is airing an episode called “Loved & Controlled” which will feature three stories, one of them the Drew Peterson cases. Anna Doman and Cassandra Cales , will be talking about their sisters, Kathleen Savio and Stacy Peterson and what life was like living with Drew Peterson.

In the clip below, Cassandra looks back at Stacy’s life, and her disappearance.

And Anna Doman talks about the mysterious death of her sister.

Upcoming Air Dates:
Tuesday, October 27 at 10pm | 9c
Tuesday, November 3 at 11pm | 10c
Tuesday, November 10 at 4pm | 3c
Tuesday, November 24 at 8pm | 7c
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Searching for Stacy Peterson

The effort by today’s searchers was a sight to behold. There were men and women who heard about the need for volunteers on the news and decided to help. One man told me he was having his coffee when he heard about it, and decided to come out. Another man heard the call for volunteers on the news also. He said he wanted to be involved in trying to find Stacy, even though he said she is now in a better place. He lost his own son, only in his 20’s, when he was home from the Service on leave. He was senselessly shot and killed, so he fully understands the anguish of Stacy’s family.

It was a trying search, to say the least. The area to be covered is a Wetland Preserve. About the only way I can explain how it feels to go into something like that is to liken it to walking into a cornfield. Only, the growth is marsh and cattails, and the ground is muddy, mucky. The further you go in, the more water you encounter, sometimes more than knee deep. Sometimes I’d take a step, sink further into the muck, and find it hard to get my foot up and out to take another step. If you’d lose your footing, there was nothing to grab onto. To be safe, people had to stay in groups, because it was like being in a maze, without knowing which way to go back out.

There were a couple of places of interest, one a mound that didn’t match the area around it, as though something could have been buried there. Searchers used their hands to dig further into the ground, but it turned out to be nothing. Another time, searchers actually found a large boulder, with rope tied around it, in a waterway. As though it were an anchor to weigh something down. A group of searchers then volunteered to go back to the area where the rock was found, in water that was thigh high, with sticks to poke at the bottom. Nothing was found in the area where the rock was discovered.

All I can say is I was amongst an awesome group of people. Family, friends and strangers who want only to find Stacy and bring her home.

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Search for Stacy Peterson to take place Friday

Cassandara Cales and Pam Bosco search for Stacy Peterson

The sister of Stacy Peterson is organizing a volunteer search for Stacy this Friday, August 21st. Participants are asked to meet at the Ikea store in Bolingbrook at 10:00 am.

Be prepared to search through brush, so dress appropriately, use bug spray, and be sure to bring water and a snack.

There will be more details provided at the scene.

DATE: August 21
TIME: 10:00 am
PLACE: Ikea, 750 E Boughton Rd. Bolingbrook, IL

Google Map

Note: The searchers could make use of a jon boat with a trolling motor and sonar. If you can help, please send an email to findstacypeterson.net@gmail.com. Thanks!

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Stacy Peterson Searchers – “We Will Find Her”

Over these many, many months, there remained, and still does, a dedicated group of searchers who were steadfast in their belief that Stacy would be found. They quietly used their bonds of friendship to organize when they could, set out on ground and water, and continued to be steadfast in their belief that they could make a difference. They wanted to help Stacy’s sister through a difficult time and be supportive in any way they could, especially if they could bring her beloved sister home.

Yesterday, this very dedicated group of searchers set out to do a water and land search, yet again. They are united in hoping that the remains discovered last week are Stacy, but felt they wanted to continue to search until they are assured that Stacy has, in fact, been found.

While doing a ground search near the area where the remains were discovered last week, a bone fragment was sighted. After verifying that they had, indeed, found a piece of human skeleton, they contacted law enforcement regarding their discovery. This was overwhelming for them, as they had to come to grips with finding a skeletal portion of a human being. The searchers do not consider this discovery as being by any one particular person, because they do this as a group. However, for the searcher that did make the initial, unnerving discovery, it was a moment of distress and utter sadness.

We are told the bone fragment is significant, and will, no doubt, be important in making an identification.

We hope their kind actions and months of dedicated searches bring closure, someday, to Stacy’s family and friends.  They are the quiet warriors.

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Decomposed body found on the banks of the Des Plaines River

Could these be the remains of Lisa Stebic or Stacy Peterson?

This is what we know so far:

• The body is female
• Lower half of the body only
• Clad only in panties
• The Stacy Peterson water searchers say the body was found south of where they had previously seen a sonar image of a body in the water
• Apparently, the body moved to the location where it been discovered.
• Cales family has been contacted by ISP
• Task forces that were working on both Stacy Peterson and Lisa Stebic cases are on the scene.
• Drew Peterson is being monitored as this news is breaking. He can watch TV but cannot listen to radio
• Remains reported found in some sort of tub
• Autopsy to take place tomorrow morning
• Joel Brodsky reportedly said drew is “unconcerned” about the remains being found

We will update as we learn more.

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