Report: Stacy demanded a divorce

CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A demand for a divorce preceded the disappearance of suburban Chicago woman Stacy Peterson, a source told the Chicago Sun-Times.

The source said Peterson, 23, claimed to have told a clergyman in August her 53-year-old husband, Drew Peterson, admitted to killing his third wife and making it look like an accident.

The report also said Stacy Peterson told her police officer husband she was seeking a divorce and wanted him out of the house.

Kathleen Savio, Drew Peterson's third wife, was found dead shortly before their 2004 divorce settlement was concluded.

The source also said Peterson booked off his police shift Oct. 28 at 5 p.m. and two hours later met with his stepbrother, Tom Morphey, at a local Starbucks to discussed "the problems he was having with Stacy and how to dispose of the problem." A neighbor reported seeing Drew Peterson and another man loading a large blue plastic barred into Peterson's sport utility vehicle.

He has denied any role in his wife's disappearance and said she is likely still alive living with someone else, the report said.

Meanwhile, police and FBI agents were discussing salvage operations with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about dredging a channel where undisclosed evidence led them to believe Stacy Peterson's body might have been dumped, the newspaper said.