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Piry after finding out she was seeing other men and “dancing” at bachelor parties. Piry, after denying Peterson’s allegations, upped her own and claimed her ex was so cheap that he recycled their engagement ring when he proposed to Rutkiewicz.
    No matter what the first three wives and the fiancée he failed to close the deal with said after things ultimately broke down, they must have seen something in Peterson at the beginning. It seems young Stacy was no different.
    She may have found Peterson irresistible, blown away by the dashing figure he cut in his Bolingbrook police uniform, not to mention his authoritative mustache. Or maybe it was just the attention and the gifts he showered on her: he bought her a Pontiac Grand Prix, set her up in an apartment, and furnished her new digs. Something definitely attracted Stacy to Peterson, and it was very likely a combination of both the promise of financial security and the possibility of the stable home life she’d never had.
    Whatever it was, the pull must have been powerful, because judging from the heady recklessness with which they carried out their affair, Peterson and Stacy didn’t appear to have worried too much about the repercussions of getting caught. Stacy even introduced her Aunt Candy to the older, married father-figure she was dating.
    “I met Drew in 2001, right after she met him,” Aikin said. She found the dynamics of the relationship odd but said it was not her place to discourage her niece’s budding love affair.
    “It was pretty crazy,” Aikin said. “But she was old enough to make her own choices. There was nothing I could do.
    “She didn’t have a mom. She didn’t have a lot of guidance. I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s just how her life was.”
    Perhaps even more revealing of their recklessness, in their early days Drew and Stacy would tryst in the basement of the Peterson house while his wife and boys slept upstairs. Sharon Bychowski, who became Stacy’s next-door neighbor on Pheasant Chase Court and instant dear friend in April of 2004, said the young woman took her to the house where Peterson and Savio had lived—just down the street on the nearly identically named Pheasant Chase Drive.
    Stacy told her, “‘This is where he lived, down in the basement,’” Bychowski said. “And I said, ‘So wait,’—I don’t know her very well [at this point]; I just moved here—I said, ‘So wait, he was bringing you here to the house?’ She said, ‘Yes, we would go into the basement, and I would leave in the morning before Kathleen got up.’”
    Just as when he was questioned about his alleged extramarital affairs while married to wives one and two, Peterson freely admitted that he and Stacy would have sex in the basement while his unwitting third wife and boys slept upstairs.
    Bychowski said she was shocked by her new friend’s revelation, telling her, “‘Stacy, that’s terrible. I don’t even know you that well and I can tell you that’s terrible.’ She said, ‘Oh no, no, Sharon. You don’t understand. Their marriage was over.’”
    Stacy said that Peterson and Savio, by that time, were just staying in the same house because they hadn’t yet divided up their assets and neither could afford to move.
    “I said, ‘Wait, let me tell you what else he told you,’” Bychowski continued, and proceeded to rattle off such lines as, “We haven’t slept together in a really long time” and “I’m only here for the kids.”
    “She said, ‘How did you know that?’”
    “Stacy,” Bychowski told the young woman, “because every man says that kind of shit. That’s why. It’s standard, comes with the package.”
    But by the time Bychowski shared her wisdom of the male species with her young friend, it was too late. Peterson had already snared Stacy, gotten her pregnant, and married her. Their son, Anthony, was born in July 2003, and not three months later, the new parents married in an outdoor wedding