Shackled Drew Peterson Taken to See Dead Mother at Funeral Home

Drew Peterson got 15 minutes with his mother's body.

Shackled Drew Peterson Taken to See Dead Mother at Funeral Home

Drew Peterson got 15 minutes with his mother's body.

Will County Sheriff's deputies escorted a shackled Drew Peterson to a Darien funeral home to see his mother's body for a last time, a source said. Peterson had a brief visit with his deceased mother Thursday afternoon before he was returned to the Will County jail, where he has been locked up for the last three and a half years, the source said. Peterson was at Modell Funeral Home in Darien for about 15 minutes, the source said. Another source said Peterson was in tears while at the funeral home and under guard by several sheriff's deputies. Peterson saw his mother before the public viewing. Peterson's mother, Betty Morphey, died Monday at 84. After Peterson's father, Donald Peterson, died, Morphey married Albert Morphey, who has also …

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Drew Peterson's Mother Dies, Visitation in Darien Thursday

The mother of the former Bolingbrook police officer, convicted of killing his third wife, passed away this week.

Drew Peterson's mother died a month and two days after her son was convicted of murder. Betty Morphey, 84, never attended a single day of her son's five-week murder trial. She also never visited Peterson in the three and a half years he has been locked up in the Will County jail. Morphey suffered from severe dementia, according to a source close to the family. Morphey was married to Peterson's father, Donald Peterson, for 38 years. When her husband died she married Albert Morphey, Donald Peterson's boss at Northern Illinois Gas Company. One of Albert Morphey's sons, Thomas Morphey, has said he helped Peterson carry a blue barrel containing the dead body of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, out of his house. Thomas Morphey also said …

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