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Stacy Ann Peterson Missing Sunday, October 28, 2007 - Bolingbrook, Illinois Age: 23, Mother of two children ages 2 and 4 years old, adopted step-mother of two children, ages 12 and 14 years, lives at 6 Pheasant Chase Court, Bolingbrook, (Will County), Illinois, wife of former Bolingbrook Police Sergeant Drew Peterson, Bolingbrook Police Department - CALL *Illinois State Police District 5 Tip Line 815-740-0678*

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Stacy Peterson Case - The Ric Mims Files Former friend of Drew Peterson who stayed at the Peterson house for three days after Stacy disappeared http://www.acandyrose.com/stacy_peterson_witness_mims.htm

October 25, 2007 (Wednesday)

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2007-10-25

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims said Drew claimed he got credit card receipt?

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "Drew said he had gotten receipts from a T.G.I. Friday's just the Thursday [10/25/2007] before when Stacy had gone out with one guy and used his credit card," Mims told the ENQUIRER. "I said: 'Are you serious? When did this all start?' Drew said it was months ago when Stacy went back to school to take nursing classes. Drews said that's when Stacy started seeing "the f---- street rats that she hung out with before I knew her."

October 28, 2007 (Sunday)

2007-10-28

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims told story that Sharon told him about what Kris said regarding fight 10/28

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 17: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "Mims said on the night of Oct. 31, Halloween, young Kris began to open up about Drew and Stacy's final fight. The boy was out helping supervise his stepbrother Anthony, 4, and stepsister Lacy, 2, as they trick-or-treated, dressed as Spider-Man and Tinker Bell respectively." Neighbor Sharon Bychowski was also helping, and at one point, Kris pulled Sharon aside. "Sharon told me Kris looked scared," Mims told The ENQUIRER. "He said: 'I was in my bedroom and I heard mommy and daddy fighting.'" "Kris told Sharon that Stacy was yelling she wanted a divorce and that she wanted his father to move out of the house. Mims says that suddenly things got quiet at that point, according to Kris."

2007-10-28

CNN Nancy Grace

11:00 AM

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RICK MIMS: "When I asked him [Drew Peterson] when the last time he saw Stacy, he said, Well, when he got up at 11:00 AM, she was already gone. But from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM, both cars were still in the driveway." - MIKE BROOKS: "How do you know this?" - RICK MIMS: Sharon [Sharon Bychowski], the neighbor, plus all the neighbors` reports from (INAUDIBLE) all created a timeline."

2007-10-28

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

08:00 PM Ric Mims: Says Drew called Stacy and left a voice mail

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "He said: 'Well I got up about 11 o'clock, and Stacy was gone. I didn't think much of it because she was suppose to go see her grandfather.' Drew says the next time he tried calling her was at 8 p.m. He left her a voice mail and said something to the effect: 'I don't want to disturb you if you're out on a date." "I asked if Stacy was dating somebody else. He said: 'Actually I think she's dating four or five different guys from the intelligence I was gathering up." And clearly Drew had been tracking Stacy's movements, Mims says."

2007-10-28

CNN Nancy Grace

09:00 PM

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RICK MIMS: "Stacy supposedly called and told him [Drew Peterson] that she found somebody else, she`s taking a vacation, If you want the car, it`s parked over at Clow." - MIKE BROOKS: "And if that -- what did he say what time that was?" - RICK MIMS: 9:00 o`clock, 9:00 PM"

October 30, 2007 (Tuesday)

2007-10-30

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims: Steve Peterson was at Drews house when Mims arrived

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "Mims first heard about Stacy's disappearance the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 30. He called Drew who asked him to come over that night. When Mims arrived at Drew's home, his friend and the ex-cop's adult son Steve (from the first of his four marriages) were in the kitchen." "I said: 'Dude, what's going on?" He said: 'Stacy ran off with another man.' He said she called about 9 p.m. (on Sunday, Oct. 28), said she found someone she wants to be with. He said she took $25,000 from the safe in the house and left the car parked at Clow International Airport (about 400 yards from the Peterson home)."

2007-10-30

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims: Drew and Steve Peterson to get Stacy's stashed car at neighbors Young Kris comforted

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "Mims asked what he could do to help, and Drew told him to stay over, that he and Steve had to go get Stacy's car, which Drew said he'd stashed at a neighbor's house after first bringing it home from the airport Sunday night." - "I wondered why he'd moved Stacy's car somewhere else," Mims told the ENQUIRER. While Drew and Steve left, Mims sat with the Kris and the two young ones in the living room." - "In the livingroom of his Illinois home, 13-year old Kris Peterson, a champion middle school wrestler, was wrestling with a problem as he talked to family friend Richard Mims. "My one mommy died, and my other mommy went away," Kris told Mims. "I don't know what to think about this." - "Mims remembers trying to comfort Kris as they talked about his mothers. "he looked frightened, and I told him: 'Well, you just have to hope for the best,'" Mims said, assuring the boy that Stacy would be coming home."

2007-10-30

gretawire.foxnews.com November 12, 2007 Full Transcript Here

Greta Conversation w/Ric Mims: Download

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November 12th, 2007 6:20 PM Eastern, GretaCast - Listen to What Sgt. Peterson’s Friend Ric Mims Has To Say, by Greta Van Susteren - (acandyrose.com HERE listening to audio file:" GRETA: When you and I first met, she disappeared on Sunday [10/28] and you started staying at Drew's house on Tuesday [10/30], is that right? MIMS: That's correct.

October 31, 2007 (Wednesday)

2007-10-31

cbs2chicago.com October 31, 2007

Peterson's off camera comment regarding 3rd wife Kathleen Savio's death + Ric Mims

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10/31/2007 cbs2chicago.com VIDEO: "Bolingbrook Sergeant Speaks Out About Missing Wife" Mike Puccincilli Reporting: "That wife drowned in a tub in a home just down the street from here." "Drew Peterson said it was an unusual but fatal slip in the tub that cause the death of Kathleen Savio. He also took time today to lash out at the media, for in his words, "for being more interested in the death of his ex-wife than finding Stacy Peterson." Ric Mims: "He's doing the best he can in a situation like this."

2007-10-31

gretawire.foxnews.com November 12, 2007 AUDIO FILE NARRATIVE MIMS to GRETA: "I heard him [Drew] when he told you the bikini thing but he never told me that." Full Transcript Here

Greta Conversation w/Ric Mims: Download

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November 12th, 2007 6:20 PM Eastern, GretaCast - Listen to What Sgt. Peterson’s Friend Ric Mims Has To Say, by Greta Van Susteren - (acandyrose.com HERE listening to audio file:" GRETA: When you and I first met, she disappeared on Sunday [10/28] and you started staying at Drew's house on Tuesday [10/30], is that right? MIMS: That's correct. GRETA: And then on Wednesday [10/31] that's when I showed up and that's when I first met you. MIMS: Right we were both sitting there when you were interviewing Drew. GRETA: Actually when I was interviewing Drew you heard him or maybe you didn't hear him tell me that when she left that she took money and a bikini? MIMS: Yes, correct. GRETA: Have you ever heard him telling that to anyone before? MIMS: No, what he told me was that Stacy has found somebody else she wants to be with and she's taken off with him, she's took a large amount of money from the house that was cash and told him she was going on vacation for a while and to pick up the car at Clow Airport. GRETA: But you never heard the bikini thing? MIMS: I heard him when he told you the bikini thing but he never told me that. GRETA: You hear him tell that to anybody else? MIMS: No, no, I believe you're the only one he told that to."

2007-10-31

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims told story that Sharon told him about what Kris said regarding fight 10/28

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 17: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "Mims said on the night of Oct. 31, Halloween, young Kris began to open up about Drew and Stacy's final fight. The boy was out helping supervise his stepbrother Anthony, 4, and stepsister Lacy, 2, as they trick-or-treated, dressed as Spider-Man and Tinker Bell respectively." Neighbor Sharon Bychowski was also helping, and at one point, Kris pulled Sharon aside. "Sharon told me Kris looked scared," Mims told The ENQUIRER. "He said: 'I was in my bedroom and I heard mommy and daddy fighting.'" "Kris told Sharon that Stacy was yelling she wanted a divorce and that she wanted his father to move out of the house. Mims says that suddenly things got quiet at that point, according to Kris." A source close to the investigation confirmed Kris did hear that final argument and that the boy has told Illinois State Police his story."

2007-10-31

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims: Drew said he might have to ask Mims to be his hostage when cops show up

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 21: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "Mims spent that night, Oct. 30, at the house. During the next day (10/31/2007], Halloween, Drew paced a lot, fielding calls, and deciding he would let only the pretty female reporters in the house. That night after trick-or-treating was over, Drew and Mims sipped run and Cokes and the cop leaned over. What he said gave Mims the chills. "I'm going to have to ask you to be my hostage when the cops come for me. Maybe I'll have a standoff with them," said Drew. Although Drew laughed after making the shocking statement, Mims thought he was serious. "I wondered if I was gong to wake up in the night with a gun to my head," said Mims."

November 1, 2007 (Thursday)

2007-11-01

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims: said Drew showed him a gun that the police didn't find in the search."

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "Mims stayed in the house while cadaver dogs went room to room sniffing fo Stacy's body. Police took all the linens off the bed in Dw and Stacy's bedrom, and they confiscated carpet cleaner, computers, toothbrushes and Drew's guns. When Drew got home in the afternoon, Mims met him at neighbor Sharon's house as the police finished the search. Later that night inside the house, Drew showed Mims a gun he'd hidden, a small pistol that folded in half. "They (the police) didn't find this one," Drew sneered."

2007-11-01

chicagotribune.com November 1, 2007

Computer and guns taken in home search

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"Richard Mims, Peterson's longtime friend who was helping him watch his children, ages 2 and 4, said police in Peterson's home were looking at a computer. Peterson later told the Tribune the police took the computer and his guns. Mims said he "firmly believed there's no foul play here. I believe that in my heart."

2007-11-01

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims: Drew's friend brought him a cell phone as they shredded thier notes between them

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "The secret notes and the paper shredder": "On the night of Nov. 1, four days after she disappeared, there was a knock on the door of the Peterson house. "The guy at the door said: 'Tell Drew I'm here" - "We walked into Drew's office, and the first thing Drew does is mouth the words: 'Don't talk, there's bugs.' The guy throws down a cell phone and a charger and writes on a piece of paper; 'This is a cell phone for you to use.' And he writes that Drew has to answer it by saying he's from some heating and cooling company. Then they put the note in a shredder." - "I walked out, and I kept seeing Drew and the guy write notes to each other and then shredding them. The cloak and dagger stuff was starting to scare me."

November 2, 2007 (Friday)

2007-11-02

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims: Drew wrote $200,000, $10,000 check to Steve Peterson

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "On the morning of Friday, Nov. 2, Drew's son Steve came over to pick up the youngest children and Kriss, who wasn't feeling well enough to to go to school. "I watched Drew write a check for a little over $200,000 from a home equity line and give it to Steve in case something happened to him. He also gave him another $10,000 check and $500 in cash. I think this is a man who knows he's going to jail, said Mims."

2007-11-02

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims took trumpet case to Steve Peterson's house but Thomas didn't stay there

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "Pal fears he unknowningly helped get rid of evidence": "On the afternoon of November 2, Drew asked his pal Richard Mims for a favor. He wanted Mims to take to his son Steve, a police officer, a suitcase of teenage son Thomas' clothes and a trumpet case. Thomas plays in his high-school band. Drew said his younger kids were going to be staying at Steve's home. Mims met Steve near Thomas' high school, but Thomas wasn't with him. He gave him the suitcase and trumpet case. That night, Mims was surprised to see Thomas arrive at the Peterson home with his principal, who lives just a few doors away from Drew's house.. Thomas, Mims learned was actually staying with the principal's family- not with Steve. Mims got a bad feeling."

2007-11-02

nationalenquirer.com December 17, 2007

Ric Mims: Peterson sneaking out of the house then bad mouthing Stacy

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National Enquirer (12/17/2007) Page 20: "Stacy murdered in Bed. Stacy's final minutes of terror": "Late that night [11/02/2007], after making several secret exits from the home and returning through a sliding glass door at the back of the home, Drew poured more rum and Cokes and told disgusting stories about Stacy. "The evening got weird," says Mims. "We're sitting on the couch. Drew says: "You can't ever repeat this but I'll tell you some s--t about Stacy." He told Mims that he caught Stacy sunbathing topless this past summer at her brother Yelton's home. "It was all lies. I'm thinking this guy wants me to hate Stacy." - "With the children out of the house, Mims slept in Kris' room that night, locking the door, tossing and turning all night."

November 3, 2007 (Saturday)

2007-11-03

CNN Nancy Grace November 16, 2007

Peterson told friend that neighbor lied about the 10/28/2007 timeline

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RICK MIMS: "Last time I physically seen him [Drew Peterson] was the Saturday [11/03/2007] that I left his house." - MIKE BROOKS: "Now, you say you left his house?" - RICK MIMS: "After I confronted him about the timelines and he told me that the neighbor, Sharon [Sharon Bychowski], was lying about the timelines -- and I know Sharon. You know, she`s a pretty good woman. I find it very hard to believe that Sharon lied. And in the match (ph), there`s other people that confirmed the cars were there. So all these people now all of a sudden are lying to him?"

November 4, 2007 (Sunday)

2007-11-04

abclocal.go.com November 4, 2007

Ric Mims says Drew Peterson has been put on administrative leave at BPD

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"Friends Of Bolingbrook Police Sergeant Drew Peterson say he's had enough. "He just needed to clear his head, and he got the kids away from here, and I was here to watch the kids. They're in good hands. Now my job here is done," said Rick Mims, Drew Peterson's friend. Mims says Peterson has been put on administrative leave from the police department while state police search for his wife Stacy, who hasn't been seen since last Sunday. Peterson left his house on his motorcycle on Friday dressed in a disguise. "He's left the area and that's all I've got to say about that," Mims said. Mims says Drew Peterson wanted to escape from media attention and any speculation that he may have played a role in the disappearance of his wife."

November 6, 2007 (Tuesday)

2007-11-06

Greta: On The Record November 6, 2007 Ric Mims - Friend of Drew Peterson

"No, he's [Drew] very calm, cool, collected, has done nothing to make me think that there's any foul play."

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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Now, Ric, you have been standing by your friend, Sergeant Peterson, since the very beginning. You thought that Stacy ran away. Do you still think that? - RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF SGT. DREW PETERSON: Yes, I do. - VAN SUSTEREN: Why? - MIMS: It's just a tough situation to be in. He's a good friend of mine, and I just keep hoping that she's alive somewhere and will show up to clear this all up. But as time goes by, you know, everybody has their suspicions. - VAN SUSTEREN: Is there anything that Sergeant Peterson has said or done in front of you that you think is unusual? - MIMS: No, he's very calm, cool, collected, has done nothing to make me think that there's any foul play." - "I've talked to him several times on the phone since I seen him — the last time I seen him physically was Saturday evening. But I've talked to him every day a couple times on the phone, and he seems to be doing fine."

2007-11-06

Greta: On The Record November 6, 2007 Ric Mims - Friend of Drew Peterson

"Nothing he's said to me has given me any reason to doubt that what he's told me is the truth."

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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Has he done anything to make you think that he was waiting for a phone call from his wife or might be looking for his wife or used a term to show that — even that, you know, that she — that she's alive, say anything at all to you? - RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF SGT. DREW PETERSON: No. I haven't got any type of intuition or anything from what he's said that he's — there's any foul play. Nothing he's said to me has given me any reason to doubt that what he's told me is the truth. I have my own opinion of what's happened, but I'm just — like you, I'm waiting for Stacy to be found. - VAN SUSTEREN: And what's your opinion? - MIMS: I hope that she just ran off. I really do. I keep praying that that's the case. That's why I came on the show tonight, was to make sure that the search doesn't continue just here in Bolingbrook but it continues nationwide. I just want to make sure that everybody knows out there that if Stacy is at a beach, even if you think she looks like Stacy, call us. Call the tip line. Let somebody know. It's worth investigating.

November 7, 2007 (Wednesday)

2007-11-07

chicagotribune.com November 7, 2007

Hiding from the press

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"Meanwhile, amid media speculation that Drew Peterson had left the area, his close friend Richard Mims said he did not believe that to be true. "I talked to Drew three or four times today," Mims said. "Drew's not in hiding—he's just hiding from the press."

November 10, 2007 (Saturday)

2007-11-10

myfoxchicago.com November 10, 2007

Peterson's friend Ric Mims running scared

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(FOX VIDEO) RIC MIMS: "There's a lot of strange things going on with the case and the more I find out about the details I'm scared for what might happen to me. He called me and told me so you switched sides on me eh? It was a brief phone call but I got a really errie feeling from it. I think anybody he feels is a threat to him should be concerned."

November 12, 2007 (Monday)

2007-11-12

video.aol.com November 12, 2007 Richard Mims "The Early Show"

Ric Mims on CBS The "Early Show" 11/12/2007 Urn of Ashes? "This is not the Drew that I know"

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11/12/2007 (VIDEO) Hannah Storm With Rick Mims on the CBS "The Early Show" HANNAH: Ric can you tell us something about this odd behavior, on Thursday [11/08/2007] night he was freaking out, knocking on a neighbor's window and running around with a urn of ashes, did he snap? - MIMS: "That's what they were telling me, I was in a hotel room and I got called at one o'clock in the morning from Tim Miller's room and they were explaining his behavior and asking me what I thought and that's not like the Drew that I know. He's not the monster that everyone is betraying on TV to be, the one that, the Drew that I know. He's a really nice guy, a good friend, would do anything for you, he's a family man from what I seen, I never seen what went on inside, you know, with Stacy and their private life but from what I knew of Drew he was a really nice guy, family man, this is un, this is not the Drew that I know."

2007-11-12

video.aol.com November 12, 2007

Ric Mims on CBS The "Early Show"

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11/12/2007 (VIDEO) Hannah Storm With Rick Mims on the CBS "The Early Show" HANNAH: When you see him walking around and covering his face with a bandana and sunglasses, what do you think? - MIMS: "I was just as shocked about that as everybody else was, he said he was just going to go outside and see what the media was doing and he threw the bandana on and walked out." - HANNAH: "Did he tell you specifically that he had nothing to do with the disappearance with his fourth wife Stacy? - MIMS: "No he never stated that to me, he just stated that she ran off with another guy, she found somebody she wanted to be with and called him and told him to pick up the car and she took a large amount of money and that's all he said to me about it."

2007-11-12

gretawire.foxnews.com AUDIO FILE TRANSCRIPT MIMS: "Tim grabbed me and rushed me out of there and told me to get somewhere safe."

Greta Conversation w/Ric Mims: Download

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November 12th, 2007 6:20 PM Eastern, GretaCast - Listen to What Sgt. Peterson’s Friend Ric Mims Has To Say, by Greta Van Susteren - (www.acandyrose.com transcript HERE of audio file:) HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS TRANSCRIPT: - Why was Ric Mims in hiding? - Did Ric hear Drew Peterson tell Greta that Stacy left, took money, bikini? - What did Drew Peterson tell Ric about Stacy? - Did Ric know Kathleen Savio (Peterson's 3rd wife) ? - What does Ric know about Stacy's mother Christie Cales ? - How come Drew's oldest son, Eric won't talk to Drew since Kathleen died? - Why doesn't Ric believe Drew Peterson's version of the missing Stacy story ?

November 13, 2007 (Tuesday)

2007-11-13

gretawire.foxnews.com AUDIO FILE TRANSCRIPT Ric Mims

Greta Conversation w/Ric Mims: Download

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November 13th, 2007 5:42 PM Eastern, Tuesday: GretaCast #2 - With Sgt. Peterson’s Friend Ric Mims, by Greta Van Susteren - (www.acandyrose.com transcript HERE of audio file:) HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS TRANSCRIPT: - Who is Mike Robinson and what did he give Drew Peterson after Stacy disappeared? - Does Drew Peterson have other friends? - Who is Ric talking to and why doesn't he trust Bolingbrook police? - Who is Roger Claar and why does Ric trust him? - Did Drew Peterson's children say anything to Ric Mims? - Story about Drew's girlfriend Monica's brother Steve killed himself - Are there other suspicious missing person cases being looked at? - Suspicions regarding one member of the Kathleen Savio Coroner's Jury panel

November 15, 2007 (Thursday)

2007-11-15

gretawire.foxnews.com AUDIO FILE NARRATIVE

Greta Conversation w/Ric Mims: Download

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November 15th, 2007 2:27 PM Eastern, Thursday GretaCast: Eavesdrop On My Conversation with Ric Mims, by Greta Van Susteren - (acandyrose.com HERE listening to audio file:"-----"

November 16, 2007 (Friday)

2007-11-16

CNN Nancy Grace November 16, 2007

Ric Mims talks about when he met Drew Peterson 27 years ago

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MIKE BROOKS: Ric. How long have you known Drew? RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW PETERSON: "Twenty-seven years. I was working at a local carry-out grocery store. I was stocking the cooler, and all the police officers used to come in there and buy their coffee. That`s when I met him the first time. And then a few years later, I was about 18 years old, and there was a sports bar in town. He was the hired police officer in uniform to work the door, and that`s when we became really good friends."

2007-11-16

CNN Nancy Grace November 16, 2007

Ric Mims doesn't belive Drew's chain of events

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MIKE BROOKS: Drew is saying that she ran off with somebody. What do you think about that? RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW PETERSON: "I find that hard to believe. Well, at first, when Drew first told me that, and that was that Tuesday [10/30/2007] night, I was still kind of in shock about the whole thing. So the main thing was that I wanted to help take care of the kids, let him get his head together. But as details came out, like with his timeline not matching up with the cars being in the driveway, and then the car shows up over at Clow, which is, like, a five-minute walk from his house, and then the... Stacy supposedly called and told him that she found somebody else, she`s taking a vacation, If you want the car, it`s parked over at Clow."

2007-11-16

CNN Nancy Grace November 16, 2007

Ric Mims thinks Drew is in serious trouble

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MIKE BROOKS: Now, you -- initially, you were a big supporter of Drew. RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW PETERSON: "I was. And I still -- Drew`s still a friend. It`s just the facts aren`t adding up. And at one point, your common sense has got to take over. (INAUDIBLE) listen, you`re my friend, but I think you`re into some serious trouble and I`m just going to back away from you for a while."

November 18, 2007 (Sunday)

2007-11-18

CNN Nancy Grace November 16, 2007

Ric Mims and AMW flying taking pictures

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MIKE BROOKS: What are you all going to do to try to find Stacy. RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW PETERSON: "Sunday [11/18/2007], me and Jon Leiberman from "America`s Most Wanted," we`re going up, flying all day. We`ve got some high-resolution digital cameras we`re taking up with us. We`re really going to search some areas that me and Drew flew over and some areas that he frequented. And mainly, keep Stacy`s picture in the news. Keep the story alive. And I`d like to ask if there`s anybody out in the Bolingbrook area that would like to come out and volunteer or donate food for the searchers, they could donate to the Westbrook church."

November 24, 2007 (Saturday)

2007-11-24 Saturday

AMW November 24, 2007 Richard Mims

Ric Mims: "He [Drew mentioned to me that he was with the kids and that Stacy was his alibi"

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11/24/2007 America's Most Wanted featured Stacy Missing story "Ric Mims [former friend of Drew Peterson] revealed a secret to us with potential major ramifications. He told us when Kathleen Savio was found dead in the bathtub that Drew [Peterson] told the cops he had an alibi." RIC MIMS: "He [Drew Peterson] mentioned to me that he was with the kids and that Stacy was his alibi. 'I told him sucks to be you now because Stacy's gone and they're re-opening the case.' I mean if she ran away, and that's your alibi, you're kind of screwed."

November 30, 2007 (Friday)

2007-11-30

www.newsweek.com November 30, 2007 ALSO: See Bychowski Files

Sharon Bychowski told NEWSWEEK about Peterson kids hearing Drew and Stacy fighting and then stop fighting

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"[Drew] Peterson told NEWSWEEK that police recently interviewed his 13- and 14-year-old sons by Savio for three hours. Peterson expects his sons' videotaped testimony will be submitted to a grand jury investigating Savio's death and Stacy's disappearance." "But Sharon Bychowski, next-door neighbor of the Petersons, believes the 13-year-old has information that will be helpful to the authorities. A close friend of Stacy's who often watched her kids, Bychowski said she talked to the boy after her disappearance. "I think he heard them fighting. And then he heard them stop fighting," she told NEWSWEEK. "I have no doubt that kid knows something." NOTE: Sharon is quoted in the Chicagao Tribune 12/13/07 "She {Sharon] said she never talked to Kris about his parents fighting and was offended by the article, which she said "left Kris out to dry."

December 3, 2007 (Monday)

2007-12-03

gretawire.foxnews.com December 3, 2007 AUDIO FILE NARRATIVE

Greta Conversation w/Ric Mims: Download

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December 3rd, 2007 6:30 PM Eastern, "EAVESDROP HERE ON STACY’S FRIEND RIC MIMS HERE… We Snagged Him At… The Grocery Store!!!" by Greta Van Susteren -(acandyrose.com HERE listening to audio file:"MIMS: "

2007-12-03

CNN Nancy Grace December 3, 2007

Mims says Peterson is pretty much a caveman type style

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JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, GUEST HOST: OK, I can tell you what he told "People" magazine. Maybe you can elaborate on that. - MIMS: All right. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: He told "People" magazine that his dad was a Marine and that when he was a child, when his dad woke up in the morning, his mom would make his bed immediately, the family bed, and he expected all his wives to do the same thing and was disappointed that they didn`t. - MIMS: That`s a good -- that`s about it right there. That sums it up. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: So a chauvinist? - MIMS: Just that he was the man and she was the woman type deal, you know, pretty much a caveman-type style"

2007-12-03

CNN Nancy Grace December 3, 2007

Mims thinks the trucker story is a red herring

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JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, GUEST HOST: What is your take on this whole trucker story that we`ve been hearing? - RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW AND STACY PETERSON: I really don`t even want to comment on it. I think it`s a red herring. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: You think it is a red herring. Why do you say that? You go way back with Drew Peterson. Let me ask you this. What is your relationship like now? How did it devolve or evolve given all this stuff? - MIMS: It`s strained right now. I haven`t talked to Drew in quite some time now. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: Because you think he`s guilty? - MIMS: I`m letting the state police do their job."

2007-12-03

CNN Nancy Grace December 3, 2007

Ric Mims: "The whole community is upset right now. It`s a circus out there"

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JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, GUEST HOST: Well, why wouldn`t you talk to him if you didn`t think he was guilty. - MIMS: I don`t have anything to say to him. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: Are you upset by everything that`s happened? This is a very insular community. Wife number three who died mysteriously in the bathtub lives about four blocks away from where Drew Peterson lives now. They in fact had had some run-ins. Stacy and Kathleen Savio. He was dating Stacy while he was still married to Kathleen. He`s a serial cheater, does that upset you what he has done to this community? - MIMS: The whole community is upset right now. It`s a circus out there, it is, it`s a circus between the media and just the things that`s going on out there. What Drew`s doing. - VELEZ-MITCHELL: So obviously you share the disgust of the community over what`s transpired? - MIMS: Yes."

2007-12-03

CNN Nancy Grace December 3, 2007

Fundraising benefit concert planned

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RIC MIMS, FRIEND OF DREW AND STACY PETERSON: "What we`re doing is we`re starting to have fundraising concert in a couple of weeks. What we`re doing is looking for corporate sponsors and maybe some national acts to volunteer their time and efforts to help with the cause. If they want to get involved, they can get a hold of us at findstacypeterson@gmail.com, attn: Peterson Benefit. We needs things like lighting, staging, sound equipment, anything that could help local bands, national bands, any type of corporate sponsors that would help we would really appreciate it. Once again they can reach us at findstacypeterson@gmail.com. I think they were going to put something up on the screen, too."

December 6, 2007 (Thursday)

2007-12-06

cbs2chicago.com December 7, 2007

Mims sells

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"On Thursday, his former friend, Ric Mims, acknowledged selling his story of the disappearance to the National Enquirer."

December 7, 2007 (Friday)

2007-12-07

gretawire.foxnews.com December 7, 2007

Greta Blog Posters MIMS: "to DP I SAY kISS my street a***"

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GRETAWIRE: December 7th, 2007 6:44 AM Eastern, Subject "FRIDAY: Ric Mims Sold Story to National Enquirer????" by Greta Van Susteren Comment by Ric Mims, December 7th, 2007 at 11:18 pm, Hey Daniel, & GRETA "Just wanted to sound in. I was not a “street kid” , I come from upper middle class, at the age of 13 was youngest producer working for the Villiage of Bolingbrook comunity Television station, I was on of the first members worked every villiage board meeting from the age of 14 to 18, I was board member for the Young Republicans, President of Dupage Township youth commitee. The youngest person to recieve full pres credentials for three differant Presidential apperances. and many many more contrubutions to the development of this villiage. so to DP I SAY kISS my street a***, Ric Mims"

December 8, 2007 (Saturday)

2007-12-08

findstacypeterson.com December 8, 2007 Internet Forum posting found from Randy Mucha

Randy Mucha comments on 12/17 National Enquirer article

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www.findstacypeterson.com forum posting by "rmucha" Jr. Member, Posts: 88, Thread titled, "Re: Mims breaks his silence, GretaWire, chilling if true", Reply #49 on: Today [12/08/2007] at 11:02:06 AM, Quote, "I know that Steve Peterson has cooperated fully with investigators and testified twice before the Grand Jury. I know that Steve was at a party at a friends house the night Stacy disappeared. I read the enquirer piece and I read the supposed comments from Mims. I don't know if that is really Mims commenting. If so, it does sound like Steve was there at some point not long after Stacy's disappearance, but I can't say for sure if he was or not. I know Steve had the 4 kids for a week or so a few days after Stacy disappeared, but gave them back to Drew before Steve went to Mexico which was approximately November 10th."

December 12, 2007 (Wednesday)

2007-12-12

chicagotribune.com December 13, 2007 Sharon told NEWSWEEK [11/30/2007] that she did talk to Kris

Ric Mims quits Peterson Charity

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"On Wednesday night [12/12/2007], Mims quit the board of a newly established Stacy Peterson charity, he said. Sharon Bychowski, Peterson's next-door neighbor and Stacy's good friend, said she and fellow board members were furious about the National Enquirer article, which focused on Peterson's son Kris. The story quoted Mims saying Kris told Bychowski that on the day Stacy disappeared, he heard his parents fighting in their bedroom before "suddenly things got quiet." Bychowski disputed the account. She said she never talked to Kris about his parents fighting and was offended by the article, which she said "left Kris out to dry." [See 11/30/07 Newsweek]

December 13, 2007 (Thursday)

2007-12-13

abcnews.go.com December 13, 2007

MORE VIEWS OF BLUE CONTAINER PICS HERE

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"Rick Mims, Peterson's long-time friend, told a grand jury last week that he and Peterson bought three such containers for about $100 from AmeriCable, where they both worked part-time in 2003, according to a source close to the investigation. Peterson put two of the containers on a shelf in his garage, but after Stacy vanished, so did the containers, Mims testified. A state prosecutor and the grand jurors themselves questioned Mims for approximately 10 minutes about the containers, the source said, asking in particular about the items' handles. Mims turned over photographs of the containers, and ABC News obtained copies of those photos. The new pictures have reportedly prompted state investigators, local police and volunteer searchers to shift their attention from what was originally thought to be a blue barrel to a square blue container."

2007-12-13

chicagotribune.com December 13, 2007

Peterson Children Advocasy Center

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"Authorities at the Will County Children's Advocacy Center have interviewed Savio and Peterson's teenage sons. The extent of the children's knowledge about what might have happened to Stacy Peterson became a public issue this week because of a national tabloid article. Richard Mims, Drew Peterson's former friend, sold his story to the National Enquirer."

December 20, 2007 (Thursday)

2007-12-20

suburbanchicagonews December 21, 2007 Ric Mims at GJ

Ric Mims to Peterson Grand Jury Mims: "Everything in the Enquirer is true."

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"Mims, the one-time friend of embattled former cop Drew Peterson, made his second appearance before the special grand jury and said he is slated to come back for yet another at the end of next month. "They asked about the week I was there," said Mims, who holed up with Peterson immediately after the retired police sergeant's wife went missing Oct. 28. Mims then turned on Peterson and sold a story suggesting he suspects his old friend was behind the young wife's disappearance. Mims says he and Peterson have not spoken since. "I'm trying to distance myself from that whole area there," said Mims, who was accompanied to the court appearance by his son." Following his appearance, Mims said he stood by the recent Enquirer story, saying, "Everything in the Enquirer is true."

2007-12-20

chicagotribune.com December 21, 2007

Ric Mims: "15 minutes of fame is turning into 15 weeks of hell"

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"Recently, Mims sold his story to the National Enquirer, which caused tension with Stacy Peterson's supporters. Before he testified, Mims said in a phone interview that pressure surrounding the case was starting to get to him. "Fifteen minutes of fame is turning into 15 weeks of hell," he said. "I'm sick of it. I want to go back to my life." Mims, who has been living out of a hotel room since he left Drew Peterson's house, said he was asked to reappear before the grand jury the last week of January."

December 21, 2007 (Friday)

2007-12-21

gretawire.foxnews.com AUDIO FILE TRANSCRIPT

Greta Conversation w/Ric Mims: Download

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December 21st, 2007 6:13 PM Eastern, GretaCast - "Eavesdrop on Ric Mims… WHERE HAS HE BEEN?", by Greta Van Susteren - (www.acandyrose.com transcript HERE of audio file:)...

December 28, 2007 (Friday)

2007-12-28

findstacypeterson.com December 28, 2007 Internet Forum posting found from unknown individual

Ric Mims bought $250 in buttons

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www.findstacypeterson.com forum posting by "Bevchcgo" Global Moderator, Sr. Member, Posts: 902, Thread titled, "WOO HOO!!!!! RICK MIMS!!!!" on: Today [12/28/2007] at 09:02:58 PM, Quote: "Admin left my house with 50 buttons a half hour ago. He went into the bar/grill where the fundraiser was and RICK MIMS grabbed him and gave him $250.00 for the buttons and said to give one to everybody! And more where that came from! WOO HOO! (I should have sent more!) Bev"

December 29, 2007 (Saturday)

2007-12-29

mysuburbanlife.com December 29, 2007