Peterson's Stepbrother Breaks Silence

NEW YORK - The stepbrother of Drew Peterson says he believes he helped Peterson dispose of his fourth wife's body.

Tom Morphey told the Herald News that he helped Peterson load a blue barrel, which he suspects contained Stacy Peterson's remains, onto a truck.

Stacy has been missing since October 2007 and her disappearance is being considered a "potential homicide." But Morphey says there is nothing "potential" about Stacy being involved in the homicide.

The night before Peterson asked Morphey for help with the blue barrel, Morphey said Peterson had a talk about Stacy. According to Morphey, Peterson told him that Stacy was cheating on him and that "he had to take care of the problem." Morphey assumed that Peterson meant he was going to kill her boyfriend.

"I didn’t think for a minute he was going to try to kill her," Morphey said. But then Peterson asked him how much he loved him and whether he would kill for him.

Morphey answered no. Then Peterson asked, "Could you live with knowing about it?" And Morphey responded, " Yeah, I guess," adding that he always figured Peterson had killed his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Savio was found dead in a bathtub in March 2004 and was initially ruled as accidental, but only recently was ruled a homicide.

Morphey attempted suicide shortly after the night he helped Peterson move the barrel, but instead has had to live with what's happened.

"It kills me," Morphey said. "There's not a day that goes by that I don't wish I could take back the events of that day."

Morphey has been offered immunity by police to tell his story, but has yet to tell it to a grand jury.