Drew Peterson engaged, wife Stacy still missing

[TitsMcGee]

The ex-cop who is a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife and whose third wife died suspiciously in a bathtub is planning to walk down the aisle for a fifth time.

Drew Peterson, 54, is engaged again, his lawyer and publicist confirmed Wednesday to FOXNews.com.

Though Peterson is still married to his fourth wife, Stacy, who was 23 when she disappeared last year, he has found a new 23-year-old fiancée, he told "Drew Peterson Exposed" author Derek Armstrong Tuesday.

Click here for photos.

"The kids have met her," said Armstrong. "They like her and they know about this engagement."

Peterson has two young children, Anthony, 6, and Lacy, 4, with Stacy Peterson. The missing mom's family contends she is dead.

"Oh my God, I’m speechless," Pam Bosco, a spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's family told FOXNews.com when informed of Drew Peterson's engagement. "History repeats itself, so I imagine that that’s the same situation he had before: He’d be involved with somebody when he was getting rid of the one before."

Armstrong said the new fiancée, whom Peterson refused to identify, lives within 15 minutes of Peterson's Bolingbrook, Ill., home. He said the couple have been dating about four months. Lawyer Joel Brodsky and publicist Glenn Selig did not identify the woman either.

Selig said the engagement happened "sometime within the last couple of days."

A sticking point for Peterson is that he is currently married.

"This is not uncommon for Drew," said Selig. "When he was married to Kathleen still, he was in the process of divorcing Kathleen when he proposed to Stacy. He’s done this before and, you know, he seems very happy."

Earlier this year, Peterson met with high-profile Chicago attorney Jeffery M. Leving, a lawyer in the Elian Gonzalez case, to see what his rights to a split might be.

Leving told FOXNews.com that Peterson had not yet filed for divorce.

Desertion for at least one year is grounds for divorce under Illinois law -- though Peterson, as the divorce petitioner, would have to show he wasn't at fault for causing his wife to leave, Leving said.

Peterson has been at the center of the investigation into the whereabouts of his wife, who vanished on Oct. 28, 2007.

After Stacy's disappearance, the body of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, was exhumed, and her 2004 bathtub drowning was re-labeled a homicide.

Earlier this year, Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow issued a statement about the Savio and Stacy Peterson cases, indicating that a special grand jury is still weighing evidence in both.

"I fully expect there to be a resolution in at least one of these investigations in the near future," Glasgow said.

Stacy Peterson's family is pinning its hopes on that resolution.

"You’ve just got to stay focused on the investigation and hope that as the Illinois state prosecutor said, that they’ll have [it] resolved soon," Bosco said.

How desperate does a woman have to be for someone to love her to end up with a man like this?

[Der Nister]

How desperate does a woman have to be for someone to love her to end up with a man like this?

That's a good question.......................I haven't been married even once let alone - 4/5 times.

Do these women even investigate his past????

[TomCat]

I may not be a genius, a detective, or even a psychiatrist but this guy is a killer, sociopath, and a scumbag. I didn't even have to sleep in a Holiday Inn last night to come up with this brilliant deduction either.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Sucker born every minute.

[Rev.Reverence]

[Onyx]

That woman is an idiot!

[jynxxxedangel]

He probably met her over the internet. *straightface*

I'll bet she's a lot like that lady from Taysteewonderbunny's drama sketch.

[TomCat]

I can see it now, how these two hooked up...on the internet

[ENTER A CHAT ROOM ON A SINGLES SITE]

Him: so wanna go out sometime?

Her: You seem to good to be true. How is it that you're single?

Him: Well, my last wife dissappeared mysteriously...sigh...(playing the sympathy card)

Her: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Was it long ago?

Him: 6 months ago.

Her: Really? Wow. That's sad. Are you sure you're ready to date again?

Him: It's ok, it's better than what happened to my wife before her. She fell down our stairs and broke her fuckin' neck. But enough about me...

Her: OMG. How many times have you been married?

Him: 4. But enough about me, you wanna meet up for chinese sometime this week?

Her: Four times?

Him: Yeah, so what's your favorite? Mandarin szchecuan or cantonese?

Her: cantonese....what happened to your first two wives?

Him: #One committed suicide with my service pistol, #2 fell out of a tree in a tragic hunting accident. I prefer Szchecuan myself...

The clues are always there...you just have to ask the right questions. Hell, as ANY questions!!!

[Joey Deadcat]

Guy's a modern-day Bluebeard. And he sure gets over his wives quickly to ever seem innocent.

[creatureofthenyte]

That woman is dumber then a brick and obviously has been living in a bubble all this time to have not heard about this guy.

[TygerLili]

Ew!

On so many levels!

[TrixieGothGirl]

First things first: THIS WOMAN IS DUMBER THAN A BAG OF FUCKING ROCKS. The second thing that caught my eye after reading the article is that they're engaged after only knowing each other for four months. Does she not know about this guys' track record with women? Either she doesn't know or doesn't care since she obviously doesn't think that she could possibly be his next victim. There are ALOT of red flags about this guy & she should run very fast away from him.

[StormKnight (1)]

Ew!

On so many levels!

*facepalms*

What sort of woman goes out with a sleezeball scumbag like this? This guy is a shame and a travesty to police everywhere. And it takes a lot for me to say that about a cop without a court of law/evidence of guilt.