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Together, they survived their mother’s mysterious disappearance, a sister’s recent death to cancer and other trials and tribulations in their troubled family.<\/p>\nTogether, they survived their mother’s mysterious disappearance, a sister’s recent death to cancer and other trials and tribulations in their troubled family.<\/p>\n
But Cassandra Cales said her older sister, Stacy, whispered to her in one of their last talks that she feared she would not survive her attempt to divorce her Bolingbrook police sergeant husband, Drew Peterson, who monitored his wife’s every movement. <\/span><\/p>\n “She just looked at me with this blank face,” Cales testified this morning in Peterson’s ongoing hearsay hearing.<\/p>\n “She said she feared for her life and that if anything ever happened to her, Drew did something to her.”<\/p>\n Peterson is charged with the 2004 drowning murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, with whom he battled over finances while building a new life blocks away with a fourth wife, Stacy, about 30 years his junior.<\/p>\n Stacy vanished Oct. 28, 2007.<\/p>\n Peterson, 56, has not been charged in her disappearance.<\/p>\n Still, prosecutors must convince a Will County judge that Peterson made Stacy unavailable to testify before they can present any so-called hearsay statements others say she made implicating her husband in Savio’s death and the fourth wife’s disappearance.<\/p>\n At times tearful, the 24-year-old Cales described a close relationship with Stacy. The two traded up to two dozen text messages daily and spent that Friday and Saturday of the weekend Stacy disappeared together in her Bolingbrook home with the couple’s children while Peterson was on duty. Cales said a frightened Stacy opened up that Friday about her plans to divorce Drew Peterson.<\/p>\n “I said, ‘Let’s get out of here,’” Cales testified. “She said she couldn’t; she had the kids. She said he was basically above her because he had the job. She told me she wanted to go about it the legal way and do everything right.”<\/p>\n Cales continued: “She didn’t want any of his money. She just wanted her kids; to get away from him and get a restraining order.”<\/p>\n The two hung out the next night, too. Cales read their last text exchange, shortly after 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, as the two said good night. Cales said Stacy wrote:<\/p>\n I’ll call you if I can’t sleep, but I’m going to try now. Good Night. Sweet Dreams.”<\/p>\n Cales responded: “Ditto.”<\/p>\n That was their last correspondence, Cales said, choking back tears. She reported Stacy missing about 24 hours later after being unable to reach Stacy that Sunday.<\/p>\n She said Drew Peterson told her Stacy called him to say she had left him for another man, taking along $25,000, her passport, and other financial documents.<\/p>\n “He said one minute we’re having wild passionate sex and the next minute she wants to run away like your mom,” Cales testified, referring to her mother’s 1998 disappearance.<\/p>\n Cales said her sister bought a new cellular phone about one to two weeks before she disappeared because Drew Peterson had been checking her bill, then calling phone numbers to check up on her.<\/p>\n Cales said Peterson also didn’t want Stacy to have any friends and, once in front her, pushed Stacy against some furniture.<\/p>\n Upon cross examination, in an attempt to back up Drew Peterson’s explanation that Stacy left him, defense attorney George Lenard got Cales to concede a depressed Stacy had spoken of her desire to start a new life, was reconnecting with old male friends, and knew she lacked the financial means to take care of her children alone.<\/p>\n Still, Cales said, Stacy would never leave without her children.<\/p>\n The hearsay hearing, in which Will County Judge Stephen White is presiding, is in its seventh day. So far, prosecutors have called about 30 witnesses.<\/p>\n The defense team has repeatedly questioned the reliability of the witnesses, raising issues about their criminal past and bias.<\/p>\n Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Together, they survived their mother’s mysterious disappearance, a sister’s recent death to cancer and other trials and tribulations in their troubled family. 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