Peterson's Mother, Stepfather Go Before Grand Jury

DP was a police officer. He knows that invetigations they usually talk to everyone involved or within a circle of a suspect. Why would he question the grand jury wanting to ask his mother and step-father questions? It is part of the process. It would be different if they brought them into the police station and brow-beat them like police officers sometimes do in interrogations. If you have nothing to hide - there is nothing to worry about having his parents,children, family, and friends questioned.

I agree with you TAI, but I do find myself feeling sorry for his Mother. Like all Mother's, you stick up for your Children. For all we know he could have been the apple of her eye. Drew has mentioned her more than once in terms of what a great house keeper she was. No one wants to except the fact that their Child could be a Murderer. Remember Scott Peterson's Mother and Father? They swore, their son was innocent and just a wonderful Son and all around great Guy. I felt otherwise and so did a lot of
other people. Thats the sadness of life sometimes, having to deal with the unthinkable. I just think the GJ is doing their job, before the day comes and they arrest Drew. I feel for the Mother and the Children..but not one wit about Drew. As to those people who may like or Know Drew personally, I am sure it is hard for them and I can understand that. I just
am on a different page and feel he is responsible for two women's death.
It is my instinct that tells me this, and all that I have read. I don't mean to hurt anyon's feelings, but sometimes I have to tell it like it is. Avalon

I guess that my mind goes back to the beginning where rather than just saying that DP couldn't have done something bad to her - his mother took a pot shot at SP saying that she was ashamed of SP.

I agree that no matter how bad a kid is - most parents will always respond that the were "such a good boy or girl" and had a big heart (even if their kid already had a long rap sheet.)

TAI, Wow, I did not know that. On the other hand if she said (Drew's Mother) Drew, is the second coming what does one do? I would turn my head and say to myself
BS! LOL I can't tell you how hard it has been for me to hold my tongue with some people who think Drew is being framed and unfairly maligned. Thanks for the input,...and yes, I have heard other people say some not so nice things about SP. She was young, made mistakes...but all in all, I do think she was a good Mother and tried her best with a nut case like Drew.
JMO

I look at Drew's mother differently....
I wonder how she reconciles in her mind the abuse that her THIRD daughter-in-law endured from the time they were married and up to the day she died....
did she really THINK K. Savio gave HERSELF those bruises and broken bones??? black eyes, etc..?
How does she, as a mother, look at her son who is cheating on his third wife and his children with her...(her dear grandchildren), watch them suffer because of his decisions to run amok with a 16 year old girl???? How does she reconcile all of that???
I think she reconciles it by blaming the victim....because, much like her son, she cannot look at the truth of him....so she blames Stacy....and probably Kathleen before her....all the while looking at her son as if he's the perfect son...the upstanding cop....the 'regular guy'.....Mr. Mom.....
If she really saw Drew with truthful vision, do you think for ONE MINUTE, she would take a pot shot at the missing mother of her own little grandchildren???
If you look at the family dynamic of this, it says a lot about the dysfunction in Drew's own life, and where it is rooted....
A parent who refuses to see the wayward ways of their child, whether adult or not, is a parent who contributes and maybe even fostered the derailment in the first place....
"sins of the father....."

orphanannie wrote:

I look at Drew's mother differently....
I wonder how she reconciles in her mind the abuse that her THIRD daughter-in-law endured from the time they were married and up to the day she died....
did she really THINK K. Savio gave HERSELF those bruises and broken bones??? black eyes, etc..?
How does she, as a mother, look at her son who is cheating on his third wife and his children with her...(her dear grandchildren), watch them suffer because of his decisions to run amok with a 16 year old girl???? How does she reconcile all of that???
I think she reconciles it by blaming the victim....because, much like her son, she cannot look at the truth of him....so she blames Stacy....and probably Kathleen before her....all the while looking at her son as if he's the perfect son...the upstanding cop....the 'regular guy'.....Mr. Mom.....
If she really saw Drew with truthful vision, do you think for ONE MINUTE, she would take a pot shot at the missing mother of her own little grandchildren???
If you look at the family dynamic of this, it says a lot about the dysfunction in Drew's own life, and where it is rooted....
A parent who refuses to see the wayward ways of their child, whether adult or not, is a parent who contributes and maybe even fostered the derailment in the first place....
"sins of the father....."

A parent usually leans towards believing their own kid over the other person no matter how irrational it sounds. At some point though - you have to conscientiously ignore obvious signs. Who knows though - maybe DP's parents never visited with KS so they never saw any bruises. We don't know the dynamics there so it is impossible to know.

well, apparently, they have visited their grand children....so they would have had to visit K. Savio....and they obviously had some sort of opinion formed about Stacy....whether through visitations or Drew's pure unadulterated opinion of her....
I wonder how his mother can honestly look at him even with 'mother' eyes, and not shake her head.... I mean....FOUR tanked marriages....kids all over the place, and TWO wives, one a victim of homicide, and the other 'missing'.....
I wonder how his mom looks at him and doesn't see the first two wives who both stated his abusive nature...
I do think you are right....some parents will never face the truth of their children...right up to the walk to the death chamber....
you could rub their face in the DNA of the victim, and they still cannot admit to themselves that they have a child who murdered someone....
I wonder how his mom sleeps at night...
I know I couldn't do it....
For my own self...if my son or daughter ever committed a heinous crime, I would not stop loving them....but I sure as heck wouldn't blame their victim/s....
I know that sometimes, even in the best of homes, good sons and daughters 'go bad'.....
but I really wonder about a mother who has seen a lifetime of abusive relationships in her son's life, and has not been able to do anything more than blame the victim....
ugh.

orphanannie wrote:

I look at Drew's mother differently....
I wonder how she reconciles in her mind the abuse that her THIRD daughter-in-law endured from the time they were married and up to the day she died....
did she really THINK K. Savio gave HERSELF those bruises and broken bones??? black eyes, etc..?

The problem is that most women who are 'abused' get abused because they go out of their way to antagonize their men.
I once thought it was just that the men in question had 'short tempers'..... until I saw what one woman who was married to a friend (not even a close one) did to irritate him when I was at the house one time and she didn't know I was there.
She was basically CHALLENGING him to dare and hit her..... when you do that, don't expect to get ANY sympathy from me, ladies, or any other smart man or woman.

What can I say, you both make excellent points. Some people must live in "convenient" denial, if there is such a thing. How sickning, and sad. Scott Peterson's Mother just totally refused to believe Scott could kill his wife
Lacy. Scott's Sister on the other hand, saw a different side of her Brother
and felt he killed Stacy. She felt he had a smooth con type of personality that could be very easily missed, if you really did not know him well. Also,
I think Scott's Mother had a tough life, and had given her daughter up for
adoption because she got pregnant to young. Something like that. She wasn't even sure she wanted to meet her daughter after all these years..What does that tell you?

orphanannie wrote:

well, apparently, they have visited their grand children....so they would have had to visit K. Savio....and they obviously had some sort of opinion formed about Stacy....whether through visitations or Drew's pure unadulterated opinion of her....
I wonder how his mother can honestly look at him even with 'mother' eyes, and not shake her head.... I mean....FOUR tanked marriages....kids all over the place, and TWO wives, one a victim of homicide, and the other 'missing'.....
I wonder how his mom looks at him and doesn't see the first two wives who both stated his abusive nature...
I do think you are right....some parents will never face the truth of their children...right up to the walk to the death chamber....
you could rub their face in the DNA of the victim, and they still cannot admit to themselves that they have a child who murdered someone....
I wonder how his mom sleeps at night...
I know I couldn't do it....
For my own self...if my son or daughter ever committed a heinous crime, I would not stop loving them....but I sure as heck wouldn't blame their victim/s....
I know that sometimes, even in the best of homes, good sons and daughters 'go bad'.....
but I really wonder about a mother who has seen a lifetime of abusive relationships in her son's life, and has not been able to do anything more than blame the victim....
ugh.

I know people who are so at odds with in-laws that one of the people leaves before the in-laws come over. In one of the interviews with his second wife's daughter I recall that she had said something to the effect that DP did a good job of giving her mom bruises where the could be hidden. People that are beaten often take steps themself to hide their bruising with make-up, etc. They also make excuses for the bruises. But as I said -even if she was open about it people will still turn a blind eye out of the realization that if it were true that meant you raised a kid that beat women. Not something any parent wants to believe.

I hadn't heard any reports of SP being bruised, beaten, or hospitalized. Just reports of him being controlling.

AVALON EWO wrote:

What can I say, you both make excellent points. Some people must live in "convenient" denial, if there is such a thing. How sickning, and sad. Scott Peterson's Mother just totally refused to believe Scott could kill his wife
Lacy. Scott's Sister on the other hand, saw a different side of her Brother
and felt he killed Stacy. She felt he had a smooth con type of personality that could be very easily missed, if you really did not know him well. Also,
I think Scott's Mother had a tough life, and had given her daughter up for
adoption because she got pregnant to young. Something like that. She wasn't even sure she wanted to meet her daughter after all these years..What does that tell you?

Siblings probably find it easier to admit the truth than parents. I know they are blood and all but it took my parents many, many years to finally admit out loud that one of my sisters had a serious drug problem which they were enabling by giving her money all the time.

Think-About-It wrote:

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Siblings probably find it easier to admit the truth than parents. I know they are blood and all but it took my parents many, many years to finally admit out loud that one of my sisters had a serious drug problem which they were enabling by giving her money all the time.

you are so right on with this family dynamic, TAI, kids will directly tell you to your face what's what....while adults will beat around the bush, make excuses, or duck the responsibility....
this is why some people hate their brothers or sisters....because when they were growing up in the same litter, one had the internal fortitude to 'tell it like it is'...
Wonder what Drew's siblings think of him????