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Corpse Found in Chicago Isn't Peterson

But cops haven't ID'd decomposed woman

By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 27, 2008 2:43 PM CST

(Newser) – The badly decomposed body of a woman found yesterday in a Chicago industrial lot is not Stacy Peterson, reports the Chicago Tribune, the suburban mom whose husband, Drew, is suspected in her October disappearance. Officials also determined that the body was not another area housewife, Lisa Stebic, missing since April. The corpse had stab wounds, and police are treating the case as a homicide.

"It's not Stacy. I can guarantee you that," Drew Peterson's lawyer had told CNN. Chicago police described the body as that of a white female with light reddish blond hair. Police do not know how long the still-unidentified body had been in the lot, about 20 miles from the Petersons' home, before it was found, CNN reports.

Dive teams search the waters of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal as part of their investigation of the disappearance of Stacy Peterson in Lockport, Ill., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Peterson was last seen Oct. 28. Authorities have named her husband Drew Peterson as a suspect and said the case...
Dive teams search the waters of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal as part of their investigation of the disappearance of Stacy Peterson in Lockport, Ill., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Peterson was last...   (Associated Press)
A March 23, 2007, family photo shows Lisa Stebic, of Plainfield, Ill. Stebic, 37, disappeared April 30, 2007, and her estranged husband has said he last saw her when she left her house that evening. The mystery of Stebic's disappearance has residents in this village west of Chicago _ which...
A March 23, 2007, family photo shows Lisa Stebic, of Plainfield, Ill. Stebic, 37, disappeared April 30, 2007, and her estranged husband has said he last saw her when she left her house that evening. The...   (Associated Press)
An undated file photo provided by the Illinois State Police shows Stacy Ann Peterson, 23, of Bolingbrook, Ill.  Nearly two months after Stacy Peterson was last seen, the investigation into her disappearance and suspicions surrounding her husband, former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, have produced many intriguing questions. But few...
An undated file photo provided by the Illinois State Police shows Stacy Ann Peterson, 23, of Bolingbrook, Ill. Nearly two months after Stacy Peterson was last seen, the investigation into her disappearance...   (Associated Press)
Chicago criminal defense attorney Joel Brodsky ponders a question during an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007, in Chicago. Brodsky offered his services to Drew Peterson, the former Bolingbrook Ill. police sergeant who has been named a suspect in the disappearance ofhis wife, Stacy, after Peterson...
Chicago criminal defense attorney Joel Brodsky ponders a question during an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007, in Chicago. Brodsky offered his services to Drew Peterson, the...   (Associated Press)
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