Police probe ‘creepy’ notes
Drew Peterson’s neighbor also finds photos of graves

Neighbors of Drew Peterson found chilling notes in their mailboxesWednesday morning that said his missing wife, Stacy, is in a graveyard.
“Creepy. Oh my God, creepy,” said Sharon Bychowski, one of the neighborswho got the notes, along with about 50 5-by-7-inch photos of grave sitesscattered in her driveway and yard and, hung on her mailbox, a Christmasstocking with a National Enquirer taped to it.
Lt. Ken Teppel, spokesman for the Bolingbrook Police Department, saidanother neighbor got the same note Wednesday, but no photos or stocking.Responding officers turned over the items to Illinois State Police, who areinvestigating the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, 23, missing since Oct. 28.
Investigators have named her 53-year-old husband, a former Bolingbrookpolice sergeant, a suspect in the case, which has been labeled a potentialhomicide.
Bychowski said authorities were taking the incident seriously, and shedeclined to elaborate on what the note said.
“Everything’s a lead until they say it’s not,” she said, referring topolice.
On Christmas, Bychowski said, the name “Stacy” was found spray-painted onher mailbox, with the “t” painted as a cross.
Bychowski said she and her husband shrugged off the incident, which theyfigured was meant for Drew Peterson’s mailbox, and scrubbed off the graffiti.
Then about 2 a.m. Wednesday, she said, they woke up and noticed a cabcircling in their cul-de-sac.
“I said, ‘Maybe he’s doing his paperwork,’” she recalled, but her husband,who drives a limo, said no driver does paperwork at 2 a.m.
Then they saw the cab leave, so they went back to bed. They awoke to findthe pictures in the yard and the stocking on the mailbox, which was open.
Anthony Laatz, administrator of findstacypeterson.com, said a few bloggerspredicted something would happen around this time. He said he planned toforward the posts to state police.
A state police spokesman, Trooper Mark Dorencz, confirmed that they wereinvestigating the incident but declined to comment further.
Stacy Peterson was reported missing by her sister, Cassandra Cales. DrewPeterson has maintained that his wife left him and their children. He has notbeen charged with a crime and denies any wrongdoing.
The investigation has led authorities to re-examine the 2004 death of DrewPeterson’s third wife, Kathleen Savio, whose body was found in her bathtub inBolingbrook just weeks before the financial terms of the couple’s divorce wereto be finalized.
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