Drew Peterson: Modern Day OJ?

You can try people in the court of public opinion. You just can’t impose a sentence. I think it’s become clear to all of us that this guy almost certainly killed two of his wives. Still, he walks free and chats with camera crews like it’s a big joke.
While OJ Simpson used wealth, fame, and racial tension to get away with two murders, it’s clear Peterson used his police connections. OJ relied on the human flaws of some very imperfect jurors. Jurors either lacked mental faculties or were simply angry enough at a perceived imbalance in the justice system to knowingly let a killer free. It was no accident. The jurors were largely picked for one reason or the other by Simpson’s crack legal team. Those with a college degree, those who are color blind, etc, need not apply to this jury. The stated reason: bigotry against a black man. The real reason: a willingness to convict.
Different but equally bad facets of human nature were at work in the Peterson case. When his third wife died, the investigators went there looking for an accident. If you look for an accident, and ignore the signs of a murder, you will find an accident. I could be wrong, but I suspect that if the story hadn’t gained national attention, they would not have exhumed his third wife. Maybe they wouldn’t have even considered him a suspect in his fourth wife’s disappearance.
I wish this would serve as a wake-up call to women. Stacy Peterson should have known better, but didn’t. As details emerge, we’re finding that he threatened his third wife. We’re also learning that Stacy Peterson knew it. According to CNN and FOXNEWS, Stacy knew he’d killed Kathleen. He told her. Read the article: Pastor: Cop told fourth wife he killed third wife - CNN.com
She was involved with him when he was still married to Kathleen. He may have told her he killed Kathleen before he married her. She’d seen how willing the police were to investigate a fellow officer. He was a man thirty years her elder, who’d had three previous marriages. She married him anyway. Is it me or did she sign her own death warrant?
Did she think he would do it to another woman but not to her? Did she think she could change him? This is no different than a woman who stays with a batterer. It may be worse, because he was a cop. At the risk of cop bashing, picture yourself as a woman married to an abusive husband. Now imagine that man is a cop. Try and get him arrested. Try and call his friends and co-workers over to arrest him. Good luck.
If you’re a woman, you’ve got to learn not to ignore these warning signs. Not to be paranoid, because most men would never hurt a woman. But, while Drew Peterson has to be prosecuted and punished, hopefully with the rest of his life, it boggles the mind of a man like me that women are routinely drawn to men like this.
Is there something in our DNA that attracts women to violent men, and men to women who use them? If so, can we do something about this? We have a medication for everything else, why not for our sexual neuroses?