One man, four wives, a serial husband, leaving in his wake three divorces, one death, and a disappearance. Drew Peterson has gone from a person of interest to clearly being a suspect. Drew Peterson, cocky, arrogant.

Please go home. Please leave me alone.

A convicted killer. Twelve people did the right thing on thank God. Serving 38 years for killing his third wife, still suspected of murdering the fourth. Do you believe that Drew Peterson killed Stacy?

100 %.

And now on trial again, allegedly plotting to kill the man who put him behind bars. It's this.

Drew Peterson story. Everything's a surprise. This doesn't stop.

Married to a murderer. The Drew Peterson story. May 22, 2015, 350 miles south of Chicago, where the Mississippi River meets the Illinois Banks. Candace Aitken is about to meet up with the man she believes murdered her niece.

I want him to know that I'm still here and I'm still fighting for Stacey, that Stacey is not forgotten.

Stacey Peterson, Candace's niece, disappeared without a trace in 2007. Stacey Peterson, a 23 year old mother of two, was reported missing. Stacey Peterson was last seen wearing a red jogging suit. Her story made headlines.

New allegations about.

Her disappearance. A soap opera of sorts, Stacey was the fourth wife of Drew Peterson, who became the sole suspect in her disappearance.

I remember the last picture I took of her, and I remember the hug. She was so full of life. It's just a very precious memory.

A memory frozen in time. Candace would never see her niece again. But on this day in court, she would see Drew Peterson.

He looked right at me and smiled and called my name. He's very jovial and making jokes. It's why I don't understand where he's really coming from, how he can be so happy. Drew.

What the attention. Peterson is, after all, a convicted killer. In 2012, Peterson was sentenced to 38 years for killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Now he is facing new charges accused of ordering a hit from behind bars on one of the prosecutors who put him there.

He was a thug. He would threaten people because he had a gun.

And a badge. A conviction would mean Peterson would die in prison.

He's arrogant, cocky, self-confident.

Reporter Joe Hosey has been following the Peterson case for years.

It was just his personality. He was the best cop. He was the smartest guy. He was the best looking. Look at all the.

Women I have. A confidence that started early in life. Dan Budan first met Peterson when they worked together at a Burger King in the Chicago suburbs.

Drew was a very bright, very dependable, hardworking individual.

Something he learned at a young age.

He had a Marine father. He was really tough and also alcoholic, and they were going out to eat. And the father warned him, Be good. Behavior yourself. You're going to sit in that chair. And he just went off and didn't want to do it. Well, the discipline followed that.

Strong discipline that drove Peterson to succeed. In his early 20s, he joined the US Army's elite division of the military police, protecting visiting presidents like Gerald Ford.

The laying of the wreath, Drew was there at one time, and I think it was Gerald Ford went up and tripped, and Drew was the only one in the under guard that broke out with a chuckle and a laugh. That's Drew Peterson.

After two years, he left the army and joined the Bowlingbrook Police Department in suburban Chicago, eventually becoming an undercover narcotics officer. It was the perfect assignment for Peterson.

Drew was trained and was to be an expert at covering up and lying and presenting false information.

But at one point, Peterson went too far organizing an unauthorized investigation.

Drew was charged with misconduct. He did lose his job. He was kicked off that narcotics unit.

Despite being indicted by a grand jury, he fought and got his job back. Some say it would be only the first time Peterson got away with a crime.

Drew doesn't have a tendency to give up, and I think that's what helped him with some of these relationships. He would lock on to a person of interest.

Early on, women were definitely Peterson's people of interest.

Drew had to have a female companion devoted to him by him at all times. Typical relationship addiction.

I don't know anyone else who has married four times, maybe Henry VIII.

Carol Hamilton was the first. High school sweethearts, they soon had two sons, but Peterson strayed.

I think Drew got a lot of confidence, probably in working that undercover cop type thing because it was his job to go out there and flirt and make friends with these women.

He and his wife divorced over infidelity, which is a pattern throughout his life.

Including his second marriage to Vicky Connolly.

Everybody says I cheated, but I went out and sought female attention elsewhere after the marriages were over, but we were still legally married.

Some say there was much more at play.

Vicky was in a very serious car accident. There were some rumors, some question of whether Drew tampered with the car, with the brakes. She also said that while their marriage was ending, she woke up one night to find Drew standing over her bed in a menacing way.

That second marriage ended 10 years after it began. But would the third time be a charm? Peterson met Kathleen Savio, a beautiful accountant in her mid 20s, on a blind date.

This was the man that was going to be her prince.

Susan Doman remembers Peterson pursuing her sister.

When she was presented with all the opportunities, the trips, the gifts, and the home and having children, it was too hard to resist. He loved her, and that's all she wanted.

And she loved him, yes.

Very much.

But soon that love would once again turn to hate, infidelity, and now violence. He grabbed her.

Wrist and he just threw her against the refrigerator hard and just went after her.

A marriage ends in murder when we come back. This is the sleepyy Illinois suburb of Bowlingbrook, where Drew and Kathleen Peterson's married life began in 1992. It is also where it would later end in 2003.

The first day he gave her a picture of him and he was in uniform.

They met on a blind date. Kathleen's sister, Susan Domen.

My first reaction was, I don't understand why someone goes on a first date and gives you a picture of themselves to them. And she just laughed it off.

But there was nothing funny about what Kathleen would soon discover. Her boyfriend, Drew Peterson, was married.

She was told that he was in the process of getting a divorce, and the person that he was divorced and was a cocaine addict, she was fooled.

Foold, but also in love and eager to settle down. Kathleen and Drew were engaged six months after that first blind date and married just months after his divorce was final. But once they started a family and had two sons, the romance was over.

It's not all fun anymore. And Drew, I think, likes to have fun. I don't know if he loved their mother anymore.

Nor did he find her attractive anymore, and he didn't hesitate to say so. Saying she.

Was fat. She looked like a dog. She's ugly.

Their once-loving relationship now contentious and increasingly violent. On one occasion, Savio ended up in the emergency room with a cut to her head and black and blue marks all over her body. Kathleen told Susan Drew beat her against a table.

She was very upset that Drew was never home, never home for the children, never home for her. And when he would come home, he would lash out at her.

Hospital records echo what Kathleen told her sister. Allegations Peterson has always denied.

As a police officer, we don't have the same ability to do things as the common person. If I get involved in a domestic situation where I'm physical with a wife, I'll lose my job.

As marital tensions rose, Peterson's eyes roamed, this time literally right under his wife's nose. As Kathleen and her children slept upstairs, 47-year-old Drew Peterson was downstairs in the basement, sleeping with 17-year-old Stacey Kales. We were.

Living separate lives in the same house just for economics.

I'm sure you can justify it that way now. Everything else. What Drew talks about Kathleen, it's a very one-sided story.

A story that 17-year-old Staceys and Kales believed.

I'm not real sure what he said to her to make it okay, but Stacey was okay with that. She said that she liked him a lot.

Kathleen learned about the affair months later, in October of 2001, when she received an anonymous letter telling her about Kales. She must have been devastated.

Beyond. Beyond. When she.

Confronted Drew, Doeman says it got physical.

She called me and she said Drew was hitting her and he put her throw her against the refrigerator. And he says that it's all a lie. They're just trying to start trouble with him.

So you talked to him.

About that letter? Yes, he denied it. He denied it.

The marriage was over. By spring of 2002, Drew moved in with Stacey Kales buying a house just down the street from Kathleen. Is it fair to say that Drew and Stacey taunted Kathleen?

Yeah, by all accounts. Yes. Yes.

How?

Rollerblading past her house, give her the finger.

The divorce was contentious. They fought over child support and over Drew's pension.

He didn't want his ex-wife to have it. She wasn't going to give up that she was tough and wasn't going to give in easy.

During this time, Billingbrook police officers were called to Saavio's house 18 times for domestic incidents involving Drew and Kathleen. Some involved Kathleen on the attack. Others involved Drew on the attack. But one stood out, July fifth, 2002. He had.

Broken into the house, and he ordered her to sit on the stairs and he kept her there for hours, holding her at knife point, threatening to kill her.

And Kathleen didn't feel like she was getting any help from the police department, the same department where Drew Peterson worked.

And they would just wind up leaving. Or they would talk her into not doing anything and just saying, it's a suspect.

Frustrated and frightened. Kathleen wrote to the assistant state's attorney about the abuse on November 14th, 2002. He knows how to manipulate the system and his next step is to take my children away or kill me instead.

She begged for help. He needs to be stopped.

And what was the result of that letter?

Nothing. Nothing at all.

Nothing until Monday night, March first, 2004, a year and a half later.

She failed to respond to the door to allow me to bring the children home. I had neighbors go into the house and they found her dead in the bathtub.

People initially suspected Peterson, but he had a seemingly rock-solid alibi. He was home with Stacey, now his wife. They married five months before Kathleen died. A death investigator's ruled an accident, but that would soon change.

I thought that she had been murdered most likely by Drew.

Drew Peterson's alibi and story unravel when we come back.

My brother texted me, and he said, We can't find Stacey.

Instantly, in my gut, I knew that she was gone.

October 28th, 2007, the day Candace Atkins' niece Stacey Peterson vanished without a trace.

I thought that she had been murdered most likely by Drew.

Stacey Anne Peterson was last seen by her husband, BOLDiebrook police Sergeant Drew Peterson. His previous ex-wife was found dead. Aitken was not alone. All eyes were on Stacey's husband, Illinois police officer Drew Peterson, a man whose third wife, Kathleen Savio, had been found dead in the bathtub about three years earlier.

I walk into everywhere I go and there's this little hum that goes through the establishment. There's Drew Peterson. There's Drew Peterson. There's Drew Peterson.

Joe Hosie staked out Peterson's suburban home when news broke of Stacey's disappearance. This morning, Drew Peterson spoke to.

Reporters through his front door. The first few days, he was just peeking out his front door, but then he was letting people come in to talk to him.

Hosie was the first.

It was eerie. I had a view of the living room and I was watching the kids watching the TV and it was strange.

Stacey and Peter... Strange because they were watching the news coverage... She was last heard from on Sunday morning... About their missing mother.

The investigation remains a missing. Drew is not even paying attention to them. He's too busy talking to his lawyer and his publicity agent. I mean.

Stacey, I'm not.

Giving up.

I bring you home. Everyone seemed worried about Stacey Peterson's disappearance. Everyone accepts. What's this?

Drew Peterson. Stacey loves male attention. -she could beRan off with a guy? -ran off with a guy and she could be dancing somewhere. I don't know.

I was like, No, she doesn't want to disappear. I'm not here.

Candace knew Stacey would never abandon her children because that's exactly what Stacey's mother had done to her.

Stacey has no record of disappearing, no pattern in her life of that at all.

Instead, Candace suspected Drew got rid of Stacey before she could divorce him and fight for the kids. For years, Candace had heard about the emotional and possible physical abuse Stacey suffered.

I can tell that she was under a lot of stress. She said that he was accusing her of all these different things, and she couldn't really go anywhere or do things.

The marriage had been going through problems since.

Her sister died. As Peterson had done before, he denied the abuse and blamed his wife.

She changed very much. Where we had her under psychiatric care and we had her medicated for the problems and emotional problems that she was experienced due to her death.

There wasn't any sensitivity to what she was going through. It's like he didn't even want her to cry or process the grief.

Candace remembers the night after Stacey's sister's funeral in 2006. Stacey begged her to sleep in her bed.

And he kept coming in there and wanting her to go. But she said no. She wasn't going with him, and she didn't want me to get out of the bed. I was afraid.

There was unhealthiness and controlling and manipulation.

Pastor Neil Shory was Stacey and Drew's minister and marriage counselor.

He really had a confidence and arrogance, maybe that nothing was going to be found out that would put him in a.

Significantly bad light. After half a dozen sessions, the Peterson stopped meeting with Shory.

The same issues really seemed to continue, so I can't say that anything seemed a whole lot better.

Another Peterson marriage in trouble. But this time, instead of ending a divorce, it ended in a disappearance. A case which made authorities suspicious about the death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio. Was it really an accident? Just weeks after Stacey vanished, they reopened the once closed case of Kathleen's death. Investigators exhumed her body for a new autopsy.

There are tests that need to be done that weren't done during the first autopsy.

My children and I, we've been believing that she died in a household accident.

It seemed like pieces to the puzzle were starting to fall into place.

Named the lead suspect in both cases, Peterson immediately went on the offensive. Confident, cocky, and in control. Drew Peterson, who is a suspect. He talked to anyone who would listen.

The third wife. Okay. What happened? Don't know.

What would.

You say.

To.

Stacey, your fourth wife? Come home. I don't believe she's missing. I believe she's where she wants to be.

Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, and Peterson himself planned the media blitz. Is this damage control?

I wouldn't call it damage control. It's getting both sides of the story out here.

But the plan backfired. January 23rd, 2008, Peterson and Brodsky were giving an interview with Chicago radio host Steve Dahl, when Brodsky suggested a contest idea. Win a date with Drew.

I'll do a dating game with you.

It's up to you man.

I don't know.

It's the lawyer.

Yeah, why not?

He looked like a crumb and a heel. It didn't play well.

Didn't play well, but Peterson would have far bigger, far more serious problems. Like when his own step-brother claimed to have helped him carry a large container out of the Peterson home.

I have no idea what anybody's talking about.

Like that. He says he believes that he helped you dispose of your.

Wife's body.

And also that he helped Peterson set up a call from Stacey's cell phone to Drewes, placing Stacey near the airport around the time of her disappearance.

Everything is invented. None of that is true.

Stacey's disappearance was still a mystery, but Kathleen's death was not. February 21st, 2008, her accident was reclassified, a homicide, and a little more than a year later, Drew Peterson was arrested for and charged with murder.

Former Billingbrook police officer, Drew Peterson, now under arrest for the.

Murder of... Peterson was arrested in a traffic stop nearest.

Billingbrook, home at 5:30... We just watched it on TV. It would happen to be the National Day of Prayer, so it felt like a prayer answered.

A prayer for justice. But would it be served? The government.

Has to convince the jury that there was a homicide and that Drew Peterson committed. There was no sign of forced entry. There was no fingerprints, no DNA.

Inside the trial, when we come back.

You're not.

The girl that.

Lets marriage stop you.

By 2011, the real-life soap opera of Drew Peterson and his four wives had moved to Hollywood. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. A television movie focused on the explosive relationship between Peterson and his fourth wife, Stacey.

I was shocked that it was happening before we know any answers.

Candace Aitken's niece, Stacey, was still missing, and Peterson was about to be tried for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen. Tonight, Drew Peterson finally facing lady justice. A sensational trial. A set of characters right out of central casting. First, Peterson's legal dream team. Six lawyers, all extremely experienced, outspoken, and entertaining.

Hey, I need your sunglasses. There we go. How is.

It better? At one point, even poking fun at Stacy Peterson. Who? Stacy who? Stacy who? She's on your witness list.

Oh, that's Stacy. There was a lack of respect for the fact that this one woman is missing and this other woman's dead.

We never realized that it would be that bad.

Joel Brodski was one of Peterson's attorneys.

It seemed like we were taking this very serious situation and making light of it, which I guess we were.

We're all fired up. Peterson's team thought it was an open and shut case, defense attorney, Steve Greenberg.

Because they had nothing except for, well, they were getting.

Divorced and we don't have any other.

Suspects, so he must have done it. There was no physical evidence. There was no sign of forced entry. There was no fingerprints, no DNA, no eyewitnesses. There was simply nothing to prove that it wasn't.

An accident. But legendary prosecutor James Glasgow completely disagreed.

With 29 years of experience. There was no doubt in my mind it wasn't an accident. That was clear.

Glasgow had one of the highest conviction rates in the state, and he didn't intend to lose this time. His opening statements were powerful, claiming Peterson carried out his constant threats to kill Savio and staged it to look like an accident. Then Glasgow attacked the police force and the investigation.

Drew was treated unlike a civilian would have been treated. They let him be questioned in the break room of his own police department.

Were they experts in homicide?

No, the lead investigator had never done a homicide. A crime scene attack decided very early on, almost immediately that this was an accident and collected no evidence, preserved no evidence, really didn't do much of an investigation at all.

Glasgow argued Peterson had the opportunity and means for murder, but he needed hard evidence. For that, he called Peterson's dead and missing wives. Kathleen and Stacey were brought to life before the jury through statements they had made while they were alive. Normally, this would be called hearsay and not be admissible. But this judge allowed it.

In essence, what you're basically allowing the victim of a violent crime to do is to testify from the grave.

And what was so troubling about that evidence was that it wasn't really evidence. It never should have come in. First to take the stand, Susan Doman. Kathleen Savio's sister.

It was scary, but I was determined.

Determined to get justice by telling the jury exactly what Kathleen had told her, Drew said. He told me.

He's going to kill me. He said he's going to make it look like an accident, and no one will ever know.

As Doman spoke, a silence came over the room. Jewars were riveted. Peterson was stonefaced. And he.

Looked at me. He didn't turn away. So I looked at him briefly like I'm here. He looked.

More tired, almost resigned to whatever happened.

Pastor Neil Shory, who counseled Drew and his fourth wife was next. Shory testified that Stacey told him that Drew asked her to cover up for him the night Savio died.

He very clearly told her to lie about where he was and to cover it up. And he actually said to her, This will be the perfect crime.

An alibi demolished when jurors also learned Peterson was present when police interviewed Stacey.

He was right next to her, right on top of her, practically coaching her. And the fact that he was even present for that interview is mind-boggling.

The testimony? Damning. Yet Peterson and his dream team were still convinced there was reasonable doubt.

They haven't done anything that placed Drew Peterson at the scene of Kathy's death.

The prosecution rested. The defense took over and successfully started to challenge the prosecutor's lack of physical evidence. But then a bizarre turn of events. Kathleen Savio's divorce attorney, Harry Smith, was called to the stand by the defense to discredit Stacey.

And I literally laughed and said, no, they're not.

But they were. Smith was contacted by Stacey Peterson days before her disappearance. The defense thought Smith would testify that Stacey would say anything to get money from Drew when they divorced. Instead, Smith testified that Stacey told him Drew killed Kathleen. I could.

Not fathom how it was going to help anything I.

Was saying.

I.

Couldn't see.

What this was doing for their case.

It was the.

Worst thing.

That I've ever been a part of.

In a courtroom.

I mean, it was awful. After Smith's bombshell testimony, the defense team publicly put on a brave face. Strong day. That's a beautiful day. That's a strong day. They tried to recover with their final witness, Drew and Kathleen's own son. Thomas testified he did not believe his father killed his mother. His father, Drew Peterson, never testified.

It's very difficult to sit in there and see someone who you think maybe hurt someone close to you.

Throughout the murder trial for Kathleen Savio, Candace Aitken hoped for some clues about her missing niece, Stacey. Did your eyes ever meet?

Yes.

What did you see?

Coldness, I guess.

But were they the cold eyes of a killer? The jury deliveries. A verdict is reached when we come back. After three weeks and 44 witnesses, the only thing that could save Drew Peterson from prison was 12 jurors.

I know that this is a jury that's very thoughtful, and they're going to make sure they come to the right conclusion.

As everyone waited, emotions were running high. Would Drew Peterson be found guilty of killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio? Savio's family was anxious.

We're sitting here waiting, and every minute that we're.

Waiting is nervousness.

I was here in the beginning for my sister, and I'm here to the end.

And the end came sooner than they expected. After just two days of deliberation, a verdict. Outside, a crowd gathered. Inside, the jury assembled.

I was in that room in the court.

Candace Aitken was there when the verdict was read. What was that like?

That was a very intense moment.

I remember crying before the verdict. I'm scared to death. I heard it, and I was stunned.

It was the one word Savio's sister had waited so long to hear, guilty.

And I hugged my sister and we said we did it. We got him. Now we can't hurt anybody else.

Did he look at you?

No, he looked at the jury. He stare at them.

He turns to the deputies that are escorting him on. He says, I guess this is going to mess up the holidays. That's Drew Peterson. He deals with adverse situations by joking and comedy.

But no one outside was laughing. From the family, an emotional, bittersweet celebration. Finally, somebody heard Kathleen cry.

Twelve people did the right thing. Oh, thank God. I know that she got justice in her hands and a cold.

Bloody killer out there.

From.

Peterson's defense team, more strange humor. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Our next performance.

And from prosecutor James Glasgow, a triumphant victory lap.

He was a thug. He would threaten people because he had a gun and a.

Badge and.

Nobody ever took him on. We took him on now and he lost.

And we would soon learn why. When therewers spoke out. The lawyers.

Testimony was the one that got us the most.

Remember, divorce attorney Smith testified that Stacey Peterson told him Drew killed Kathleen. I can't tell you that before Harry Smith was called, we were going to win that case. But I can tell you after Harry Smith was called.

We were probably going to lose that case.

A loss that carried up to 60 years in prison for Drew Peterson. At the sentencing hearing, Susan Domen pleaded for the max.

He has no remorse. He killed my sister. I have to live with that. Every day I have to recover from that.

Peterson's silence at trial was replaced with anger when he addressed the judge at sentencing.

He got up on the stand and that shrill, feminine screech that he didn't kill Kathy. That's the guy that killed Kathy. You got a glimpse into his soul.

I wasn't going to take the devil. I wasn't going to let him say that. And my reply was, You're a liar.

You did kill her. Peterson is sethed, calling the trial the largest railroad job ever. He challenged Glasgow to look him in the eyes and lash doubted him to never forget what you've done here. I don't know that there was anything wrong with it. If it made him happy to vent, it made him happy to vent. But his outburst could not save him. Almost nine years after Peterson murdered Kathleen Savio, he was sentenced to 38 years, not eligible for release until he is 93 years old. The reason.

I never looked through Peterson in the eye is because I never acknowledged his existence. But I looked him in the eye today, and he knows that we did our job.

But Glasgow's job was far from over. Stacey Peterson was still missing.

We have to catch our breath and begin a review of the evidence in that case.

Do you want that? Do you want Drew to be charged with the murder of Stacey?

I do. If he is the one who has done this, I do. I do want justice. I believe in justice. And I do want justice for Stacey.

That justice may have to wait, though. Peterson and Glasgow were set to square off yet again. A shocking turn when we come back. Behind the barbed wire, armed guards, and prison bars, 61-year-old Drew Peterson is serving a 38-year sentence for murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Confined, away from the general population, this serial husband is reportedly looking for wife number five.

They say Drew is getting marriage proposals. They say women are still interested in him.

Do you think he has forgotten, Stacey?

Maybe he wants to, but I don't know that he could ever forget her.

Candace Aitken won't let him. She is in touch with Peterson frequently, exchanging letters over the years. Do you sense in his writing? What emotion? Anger? Frustration?

Probably frustration more.

That he is not free?

Yeah.

But that is something Peterson is actively trying to change. He is appealing his conviction.

He claims that even though Drew had six attorneys representing him, that the lead attorney, Joel Brodsky, was ineffective counsel. And because of that, Drew didn't get a fair trial.

That's just the typical accusation that they make. The lawyer should have done this, the lawyer should have done that. But it's a strategic decisions as a matter of law, cannot be an effective assistance.

Defense attorney Steve Greenberg is now leading the appeal. He disagrees with Brodsky. I've played it over in my head dozens of times. He argued that the defense failed on many levels. First, when they called Kathleen's divorce attorney to testify. I just can't imagine why you would ever want to call a witness to have them say that your client committed the crime. Greenberg also argued that the hearsay evidence, all that damaging testimony about what Kathleen and Stacey told others about Drew, his behavior and his guilt, should never have been admitted. The hearsay testimony doesn't place Drew at the scene of the crime. If there was a crime and there wasn't. Peterson is confident that the court will rule in his favor. And rightly so.

He should win his appeal.

A win that could make Peterson a free man, but not if this man has his way. If I have.

Anything to do.

With it, hopefully.

It will end with him getting a lot more time on top of what he's already doing.

Illinois State's attorney, Jeremy Walker, has a new case against Peterson, a revenge plot, allegedly organized by Peterson from behind bars targeting the man who put him there.

He wanted somebody killed.

And was willing to pay for it. According to sources inside the investigation, authorities used eavesdropping devices and an informant to record Peterson ordering a hit on prosecutor James Glasgow.

I mean, of course, it's a surprise. But then this Drew Peterson story, everything's a surprise. This doesn't stop.

And there is the case of missing wife, number four, Stacey Peterson. Law enforcement still follows up on tips and leads, clues that many believe will eventually point right at Drew Peterson. Do you believe that Drew Peterson.

Killed Stacey? 100 %.

Pastor Neil Shory remembers one day in 2006 before Stacey went missing that Drew Peterson made a startling confession.

You know, Neil, what's interesting about me? He said, I've done a lot of bad things in my life. And he said, But I've never felt bad for one thing I've ever done. And I've talked with many people. I've never heard somebody say before they've never felt guilty for anything they've ever done. I believe that in some ways, he was giving the safest confession that he could give.

An eerie confession that Shory now believes was a warning of things to come.

It's hard. Knowing what I do now, I would do so many things differently, and that is hard. That's extremely hard.

Listen to your gut. Your gut knows. I'm so thankful for all our times that we shared.

Candace Aitken also lives with regret. Regret when she remembers the very last time she saw Stacey alive. It was just 10 days before she disappeared.

That's when I saw the fear that was in her eyes and the stress that she was under.

Looking back, Aitken now wishes she had forced Stacey to leave with her.

She didn't feel like she had a place to go. We had said she could come to California. I don't think she felt like she had a really place to go.

And now more than seven years after she vanished, the house Stacey called home is where her two children still live. When you see them, do you talk to them about their mother?

As much as they want to talk about her, I do. We talk about good times. That's as far as we go.

Two innocent children growing up without their mother, just like Kathleen's two sons.

That is the real tragedy. You've got four children who don't have mothers anymore.

But they also lost a father.

Well, true, they did. They have.

Do you believe he murdered Stacey?

I believe that, yeah, he did. I do.

You have to be angry.

I've gone through the shock and the grief and anger, but I've forgiven him.

What gives you the strength?

I'm believing that God's going to turn this all around and bring good out of it somehow, but I really don't know how. My middle name is Faith, and now I think I know why, because I was going to need a lot of it.

Faith at one day, Stacey will be found. Faith at one day, justice will be served.