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ON THE RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUSTEREN - January 12, 2009

GRETA: The former sergeant has an infamous history with wives. His third wife's
death has been ruled a homicide and his fourth wife, Stacy, is still missing.

Joining us live is Derek Armstrong, Author of the book, Drew Peterson Exposed.
Derek conducted the interview you just heard (sic). Do we have the tape? We do
have the tape. We can listen to it.

PHONE CONVERSATION EXCERPT:

ARMSTRONG: Tellme about the reasoning for the move-in so soon after you
told me that you were engaged. What happened there?

PETERSON: Well, she's coming out of an abusive environment where the ex-
boyfriend had originally moved out when they broke up. Chrissy didn't break
up with this guy to be with me. She broke up with him to not be with him. He
originally moved out and I guess, at first when we were first seeing each
other he moved back in and they were both on the lease of the apartment so
she had no legal standing to keep him out so... They shared an apartment
but there was no (inaudible) between them. The relationship became
abusive where she was physically and emotionally abused and it wasn't a
good environment for her and the kids. What had happened was early last
week he came home drunk and it had caused Chrissy to leave the house with
two small children at two, three in the morning to avoid a physical
confrontation.

ARMSTRON: Which day did this happen on?

PETERSON: It was last week some time.

VAN SUSTEREN: Derek Armstrong who has written a book, Drew Peterson Exposed,
joinsus. Derek, that's your tape, isn't it?

ARMSTRONG: Yes it is Greta, Hi.

(CROSSTALK)

VAN SUSTEREN: Go ahead.

ARMSTRONG: Sorry. I interviewed him Friday and Sunday --two different interviews.
That one was from Sunday.

GRETA: Did you have an opportunity to talk to his young fiancée?

ARMSTRONG: No. She wouldn't come on. I spent about ten minutes trying to
convince her to come on, through Drew. She would just say, "No comment." and
that she was happy she moved in. That's all I could get.
VAN SUSTEREN: How old is she and how old are her children that have also moved
into the home?

ARMSTRONG: She's 24 which I think seems to be a pattern with Drew Petersen.


He's now 55. He had his birthday last weekend. Her two kids are the same age as
lacy and Anthony, which is four and five years old--a boy and a girl.

GRETA: Now, at best I'd say that Drew has really bad karma in the marriage
department. A worst we're all suspicious of him for several reasons. Does he think
it's...I mean, how does he explain that he's now on #5 young woman moving into
his house.

ARMSTRONG: it's more than actually five. In the book I actually went through all
his romances. It goes back quite a long way. It's always with younger women. It's
quite a lot younger women as a rule, even when he was quite young himself.

VAN SUSTEREN: Do you have any idea how the investigation is going into the
homicide of wife number three? Is anyone going to be charged?

ARMSTRONG: I had information that there were going to be charges last month. It
didn’thappen so I'm a little gun-shy on that one. A source had told me that charges
were coming based on some information I had about the will - the Savio will and the
hearsay law of course, that came into play.

GRETA: What about the disappearance of his fourth wife? Is it anticipated any
charges will be brought in connection to her disappearance?

ARMSTRONG: I would anticipate at some point there will be but I don't think that
case is as far along. There's not enough traction in that case as far as I can tell.

VAN SUSTEREN : Now, Drew Peterson told me that his wife simply took off and
everybody says she'd never take off on her children. Has there been any indication,
any sightings, use of ATM or anything at all to in any way back up Drew Peterson
that she took off with a guy?

ARMSTRONG: Well there had been some early indicationsfrom the cell phone. Her
cell phone voice greeting had been changed shortly after she disappeared. There
was the story of the person from college that she met where he had indicated - this
was in a discovery motion - the defense found a document from the police that
indicated that someone had told her that if she was unhappy she should take all the
money she could, not use her credit cards and leave. And that's about all you really
have.

GRETA: All right Derek. Thank you.

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