Father To Daughter: Don't Marry DREW PETERSON

A father who insists his daughter is the the girl engaged to suspected wife-abductor Drew Peterson is "doing everything I can to get her away from him," he told the Chicago Sun-Times.

That ain't going to happen," Ernie Raines said. "I'm doing everything I can to try to get her away from him. . . . I'd like to say to him: Stay away from my daughter, take his ring back and look for his wife before he's out trying to get another young girl."

Peterson, 54, is suspected in the 2007 disappearance and "potential homicide" of his fourth wife, Stacy, who was 23 at the time. He recently got engaged to another young woman, reportedly 24-year-old waitress Christina Raines, despite still being legally married to his missing wife.

Peterson is also being investigated in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Ernie Raines told the Sun-Times that Peterson met his daughter years ago at a Bolingbrook laundromat and that he has given her roses, taken her to "Blue Man Group" and promised to buy her a car.

Ernie Raines said his daughter told him about Peterson's proposal when he spotted a ring on her finger Friday.

"I said, 'You need to take that back. If you don't want to, I will,' " said Ernie Raines, 53. "I said, why would you want to marry someone like that anyway? He's my age for Christ's sake."
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Concerned about Peterson -- "I don't want a third one to come up missing" -- Ernie Raines said he drove to Peterson's house last month to "let him know that I'm here, that I'm around, that I know where he lives."
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Ernie Raines thinks his daughter sees security with Peterson. "He's got a house. He's got money."

But, as a father, he sees troubles.

"I said, if you don't answer your [cell] phone, don't worry about it," Raines said. "I'll drive my Cadillac right through his house."

Comments

[harriettubman]

Sounds like she's ready to sign her death certificate by marrying this dude.

[anthonylee]

A last ditch and desperate "SCREAM" for daddy's attention and concern . . . . FINALLY, dad is not ignoring her now, but is it too little, too late!?!?

[YeOldeTyme]

I grew up in a town that neighbors Bolingbrook. The pictures of this girl: drawn on eyebrows, lined lips, reminds me of many girls I knew as a teenager. That look really shouts "I'm classy," which is great, because Drew Peterson is a classy dude. I'm sure he wines and dines her at all the classy area restaurants : Chili's, Applebee's and maybe even Pizzeria Uno when he's feeling saucy.
Something tells me that this girl has been defying her daddy for years: sneaking off to smoke Newports under the carport, drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade on school nights, ditching her GED prep course, racing her 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix at stop lights, leaving the house in revealing, bejeweled polyester outfits from the popular Bolingbrook shop "Rave" (covered up by oversized sweats I'm sure).
Her dad must have known this was coming. I only hope she wakes up and smells the gas station coffee before it is too late.

[Leslib]

Hoo boy. She's entering the "whole new level of stupid" contest.

[BillMelater]

I couldn't have put that any better. Dad should perhaps lay some of the evidence on daughter.

[jedonspring]

It's amazing how some people think. WHY would she ever consider marring him??? It's a level of desperation I cannot imagine.

[Igetitnow]

Seriously. He is so creepy looking. How could she stand to kiss him? Ugh.

[skunky93]

I like what her daddy is saying. Sounds like the kind of stuff my dad would say. Except that I would never be that stupid as to marry someone with a track record of dying wives.
The sad thing is that her poor father is probably going to end up in jail for murder/attempted if his daughter disappears because he is going to freak out and hurt this man. Then this poor guy will be in trouble.
Maybe we should all secretly offer our help to him...
"you stay cool daddy, i got this..'

[ChicagoSuz]

Christina, listen to your father...

[SouthernYankeeBelle]

Christina don't be a dumbie. He is going to jail sooner or later and the money you see will be going to attorney fees. His kids will get everything and you will be out in the cold.

[Amennyc]

I am all for the sanctity of marriage!

[Begbie]

What could any woman see in that dude? Honestly. His track record alone. That creepy above the law look......­.OJ esque.

[mohawk79]

Why doesn't the woman work and make her own money.

Now there's a novel concept.

[brooklyncitizen]

It's not novel. We've been doing it for a long time.

[BartLA]

Smart father. He should pull others together and do an intervention on the girl. She needs to wake up to reality.

[bmwracer]

Whoever this woman is, she's flirting with fire.

[LMPE]

She could always pull a Lorena Bobbitt.

[roshni]

Why are these women so stupid and so gullible?? Can't they see the history behind Petersen?

[vjoseph]

Alas, our gender can be quite ridiculous.

[hapaglloyd]

Petterson is a na.sty ,di.rty .old man, no ,he is a nast.y ,nast.y dirt,y old man.