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Drew Peterson spoke out again Thursday night to "America's Most Wanted," saying he is angry at his missing fourth wife, Stacy, whose disappearance has generated a media frenzy and mounting suspicion that he is involved.
"I hope she exposes herself to be alive and well," Peterson said on the TV show.
Peterson maintains he had nothing to do with Stacy's disappearance or third wife Kathleen Savio's death. But police have named Peterson as a suspect in Stacy's death and this week they also exhumed the body of Savio to conduct a new autopsy.
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15 May 2008
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Rookie cop lied like a pro for
An Atlanta police officer accused in a botched drug raid in which a 92-year-old woman was shot to death hasn't stopped lying about his part in a cover-up, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Fulton County prosecutor Kellie S. Hill told a jury in closing arguments that Arthur Tesler only admitted his role in the shooting death of Kathryn Johnston in 2006 after he was confronted by federal agents investigating the case.
"He has got to be responsible for what he did. He doesn't get to come in here, make up excuses and go home. That's not the way it works," Hill said.
Tesler is charged with lying in an official investigation, violating his oath as an officer and false imprisonment. He could face up to 15 years in prison. The jury began deliberating early Thursday afternoon.
Tesler's attorney, William McKenney, told the jury that prosecutors have already "gotten" the two former officers responsible for Johnston's death: Jason R. Smith and Gregg Junnier pleaded guilty to state manslaughter and federal civil rights charges. Junnier testified against Tesler last week.
McKenney said convicting Tesler would be wrong because he was manipulated into lying to cover the mistakes of his senior officers.
"Don't ruin this officer," McKenney told the jury, pointing at Tesler. "Don't ruin this family."
Johnston was killed Nov. 26, 2006, when she was shot 39 times as plainclothes narcotics officers busted into her house using a "no-knock" warrant. Johnston fired one shot from a pistol as police were breaking down her door, but she did not hit any of the officers.
Prosecutors have said Tesler knew Smith lied to a judge to get the warrant and helped cover the lie until he was forced to come clean. Tesler was in the backyard during the shooting.
McKenney has said Tesler was a rookie narcotics officer manipulated by a renegade Atlanta drug unit that routinely lied to get warrants, planted drugs at crime scenes and took shortcuts. Tesler is on paid administrative leave from the department pending the trial.
The case angered many people in Atlanta who complained of aggressive police tactics and led to new policies on using confidential informants.
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