JOLIET, Ill., July 16 (UPI) -- Friends claim Illinois State Police missed a folding gun when they searched the home of ex-cop Drew Peterson three days after his wife Stacy vanished.
A former friend of Peterson's, Ric Mims, says Peterson showed him the gun and bragged that the officers had failed to find it, The Herald News newspaper in Joliet, Ill.,reported Wednesday.
Peterson's attorney Joel Brodsky denies the existence of any folding gun but other friends of Peterson back up Mims, the newspaper said.
Paula Stark and Len Wawczak say Peterson signed the folding gun over to Stark the day after state police took Peterson's firearm owner's identification card.
"This whole folding gun thing is ridiculous," Brodsky says. "I know Drew has told me there's never been anything about a folding gun."
State police have classified the disappearance of Stacy Peterson as a possible homicide and named Peterson as a suspect in the case.
