Peterson Ex: Engagement Was a 'Stunt'

Father vows to break up daughter, murder suspect

(NEWSER) - Drew Peterson’s latest galpal—who claimed last week their engagement was nothing more than a publicity stunt—has moved back in with the suspected wife killer, the Joliet Herald News reports. The move comes less than two weeks after 24-year-old Christina Raines moved out of Peterson’s house with the help of her father in front of a camera crew. “I'm not going to let this happen,” her father said. More»

(NEWSER) - Drew Peterson’s fiancée ended their relationship today and moved out—with a little help from the police, her dad, and Dr. Phil, the Chicago Tribune reports. Christina Raines first called her father for help moving. After arriving with a cameraman from Dr. Phil's show in tow, he called the police just to be safe. They sent five squad cars. More»

Murder suspect says he understands fears of fiancée's family

(NEWSER) - Drew Peterson, divorced from wives No. 1 and 2 and suspected of killing wives No. 3 and 4, understands why the family of would-be wife No. 5 is none too pleased with their engagement, ABC reports. “I would have concerns if I were the friends and family of this young girl,” Peterson, 55, told Nightline, referring to 23-year-old fiancée Christina Raines. More»

TMZ says Drew spilled the beans to a fellow inmate

(NEWSER) - In what might be the mother of all jailhouse confessions, TMZ is reporting that Drew Peterson blabbed to a fellow inmate how he killed missing wife Stacy Peterson, and who his accomplice was. The inmate allegedly told cops, who tracked down the accomplice, who took them to private hunting grounds outside Peoria, where he said the body was buried in a metal drum. Cops stuck prongs in the ground, TMZ notes, and have found something that could be a metal drum. They're expected to begin digging this morning. More»

Relic stunt was in tradition of 'Coney Island ballyhoo,' historians say

(NEWSER) - CNN happily ran a story recently on a 140-year-old hot dog and bun discovered intact, encased in ice, during demolition of the restaurant where the first hot dog was supposedly made. But the news network apparently forgetting that not everything is as it seems on Coney Island. The “1^st Hot Dog” was a hoax, and the yucksters behind the stunt are unapologetic, seeing as it was a good deed to publicize an exhibition of artifacts from the actual history of Feltman’s Kitchen. More»