Immunity deal offered in Peterson case

[sarahhod]

Exclusive: Immunity deal offered in Peterson case

March 6, 2009

By JOE HOSEY jhosey@scn1. com

BOLINGBROOK -- Details have emerged about prosecutors' offer of a free pass to the man who may have unwittingly acted as Drew Peterson's accomplice in allegedly disposing of his wife's body, so long as he sticks to the truth, his original statement and did not play a part in actually killing the missing woman.
The Herald News has obtained a copy of the immunity deal inked by State's Attorney James Glasgow for Thomas Morphey in exchange for his testimony.
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Drew and Stacy Peterson

Glasgow signed the immunity agreement more than 17 months ago, yet sources say Morphey has never appeared before the grand jury investigating the disappearance of Peterson's wife, Stacy Peterson.
Glasgow made the agreement offer on Halloween 2007, three days after Stacy, who is Peterson's fourth wife, was last seen alive and likely while Morphey was still hospitalized following an Oct. 29 suicide attempt.
Morphey overdosed on sleeping pills after he learned Stacy vanished and he feared he may have something to do with her disappearance, sources said. Morphey's suspicions were based on his helping Peterson carry a blue barrel out of his stepbrother's bedroom, down the stairs, outside to the driveway and into the back of his waiting Yukon Denali the night of Oct. 28, sources said.
Not only that, police sources allege Morphey assisted Peterson in a scheme to set cell phone towers pinging near the home of her friend Scott Rossetto, a male nurse living in Shorewood. The sources said they suspected Peterson was trying to frame Rossetto for doing away with Stacy.
Peterson is believed to have left his cell phone with Morphey in Bolingbrook, then went to Shorewood with Stacy's cell phone. Peterson is alleged to have called his own cell with Stacy's from Shorewood to leave a record of the call, sources said.
After Morphey was released from Edward Hospital in Naperville, where Peterson says he paid his stepbrother a visit, he vanished from his Bolingbrook home. His girlfriend, Sheryl Alcox, said at the time that Morphey was in "therapy." Peterson has repeatedly said the authorities put Morphey, who has struggled with substance abuse, someplace to "dry out."
Morphey is back in his Thistle Drive home and has been for months. He declined to discuss his immunity agreement -- or anything else relating to the Peterson case -- on the record.
Immunity deal
The immunity agreement signed by Glasgow is contingent on Morphey making a "full, truthful and complete statement of all information he has concerning the disappearance of Stacy Peterson and the activities of himself and Drew Peterson immediately prior to and including the weekend of October 27th, 2007. Thomas Morphey will also testify consistently with his statement and truthfully in any future court proceedings relating to the disappearance of Stacy Peterson."
But if Morphey gets caught lying or holding back on his story regarding his "information and knowledge of the kidnapping or murder of Stacy Peterson, or if any evidence emerges indicating that Thomas Morphey personally participated in the murder of Stacy Peterson, this agreement shall be null and void."
Peterson laughed when told of the immunity offer for his stepbrother and said, "Un (expletive) believable." He would not elaborate.
Charles B. Pelkie, the spokesman for the state's attorney's office, declined to comment on Morphey's immunity deal.
Peterson is the sole suspect in the state police investigation of Stacy's disappearance. State police Capt. Carl Dobrich called the young woman's disappearance a "potential homicide."
The state police also are investigating the 2004 homicide of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found drowned in a dry bathtub.
State police originally failed to find anything suspicious about Savio's case when they first investigated it and her death was eventually ruled accidental. Soon after Stacy disappeared, authorities determined Savio was the victim of a homicide and the state police give them another chance at figuring out who killed her.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/1463485,Joliet-exclusive-Peterson-case-immunity-JO030509.article

[sarahhod]

Possible Peterson witness given immunity, report says

Friday, March 06, 2009 | 7:11 AM
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March 6, 2009 (WLS) -- A possible key witness in the Drew Peterson investigation has reportedly been given immunity.
Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow approved the immunity for Peterson's stepbrother, Thomas Morphey, shortly after Stacy Peterson, Drew Peterson's fourth wife, disappeared in October of 2007.
But the Herald News reports Morphey has not gone before the grand jury. The paper reports that Morphey may have unwittingly acted as Peterson's accomplice when he helped haul away a blue barrel out of Peterson's home.
The paper says Morphey overdosed on sleeping pills after learning Stacy vanished and fears he had something to do with it. [/URL]
Drew Peterson is a suspect in Stacy's disappearance but has not been charged with any wrongdoing. He contends that Stacy simply left him.



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[Roamer]

I'd love to see Drew finally get what he deserves!!!

[foxfarmboxers]

I'd love to see Drew finally get what he deserves!!!

Well, if he's guilty Roamer, he WILL get what he deserves, if not by man's law, then by God's. Karma's a b#@ch~! JMO. :grin:

[dega101653]

Well, if he's guilty Roamer, he WILL get what he deserves, if not by man's law, then by God's. Karma's a b#@ch~! JMO. :grin:



And what a b#@ch~ she is !!

[emmeblu]

I'd love to see Drew finally get what he deserves!!!

You and me both Roamer! It is past time for the justice due Stacey.
Maybe this immunity deal will bring someone out to close the book on Drew.

[sarahhod]

Drew's stepbrother speaks out

Morphey goes public about fateful night after suicide attempt, months of fear

March 10, 2009

By Joe Hosey, Sun-Times News Group

Believing that Stacy Peterson was in a blue barrel that he helped his stepbrother, Drew Peterson, haul to a waiting vehicle, Thomas Morphey tried to kill himself by swallowing antidepressant pills.
Morphey survived the attempt but isn't sure if that makes him lucky. Instead of death, he now endures each day in a living hell, courtesy of Peterson, he said.
"It kills me," said Morphey, who broke a near 17-month silence to speak out. "There's not a day that goes by that I dont wish I could take back the events of that day."
That day was Oct. 28, 2007. Morphey said he was on the second floor of Peterson's Bolingbrook house when Peterson appeared, pushing a blue barrel and asking Morphey to help him get it downstairs.
They took the barrel "right out the front door" and to Peterson's Yukon Denali, which was parked in the driveway, Morphey said. Part of a thick plastic bag was protruding from the lid of the barrel, he said.
Morphey said Peterson, then a Bolingbrook police sergeant, dropped him off at his home and told him, "This never happened."
"I said, Don't worry. I wont say a word."
Stacy Peterson, then 23, has not been seen since, and her disappearance has drawn national media attention - especially after it led to a new investigation of the March 2004 death of Peterson's previous wife, Kathleen Savio. Her death, initially ruled accidental, was determined to be a murder.
While recovering from his suicide attempt, Morphey spoke to Will County prosecutors and received immunity from prosecution regarding Stacy's disappearance in exchange for his testimony. Despite the immunity, Morphey has yet to testify before the county grand jury investigating the cases of Peterson's last two wives.
Nearly 18 months have passed since Morphey first told police and prosecutors his story about assisting Peterson, and he's questioning the progress of the case, leading him to speak publicly about the last time he was in his stepbrother's house.
Murder plot?
Morphey said the barrel incident was preceded by Peterson trying to enlist him in a murder plot the day before.
Peterson showed up at his home that Saturday morning, ostensibly to take him to a Meijer store where Peterson supposedly lined up a job interview for Morphey. But Peterson drove Morphey to a park.
"He looked like I'd never seen him before," Morphey said. "As if he had a frantic evening the night before and hadn't gotten any sleep. We went to that park to discuss Stacy cheating on him, and he had to take care of the problem."
He assumed Peterson planned to murder Stacy's supposed boyfriend.
"I didn't think for a minute he was going to try to kill her," Morphey said.
But then Peterson started asking strange questions.
"How much do you love me?" Peterson asked him, and Morphey answered that he loved him a lot.
"Enough to kill for me?" Peterson inquired.
"No, I couldn't live with myself," Morphey said.
"Could you live with knowing about it?" Peterson asked.
To which Morphey replied, "Yeah, I guess. We always figured you killed Kathleen."
Morphey said Peterson then drove him to a storage facility and asked him to rent a unit in Morphey's name. But Morphey had not brought his state ID, and Peterson, fearing that leaving to get it and returning would attract undue attention, dropped Morphey at home, Morphey said.
A few hours later, Morphey called Peterson and told him, "Sorry. I know you've always been there for me, but this is just something I can't get involved in."
Peterson said, "OK, I can respect that. Ill get with you later."
Morphey said he felt as if he was in "hell," fearing that a life was at stake but not knowing where to turn.
"I couldn't really go to the police," he said. "He is the police."
Now, he said, he must face the consequences of his lack of action.
"It's just something I have to live with," Morphey said. "I grew up Catholic. I believe if you take another life, you go to hell."
Cell phone calls
The night after their trip to the park and the storage center, Peterson showed up unannounced at Morphey's home to take him for a ride.
"He just started driving," Morphey said. "I didn't ask any questions."
They went to a park off Weber Road where Peterson handed him a cell phone and told him not to answer it, Morphey said. Peterson left. Morphey said he paced back and forth in the dark, wondering, "Is he killing someone?"
About 45 minutes later the phone rang. Then it rang again. Both times, the caller ID showed "Stacy's cell," Morphey said, which gave him a "pretty good idea" who was Peterson's target.
"Really, all I could think when I saw Stacy on the phone was he was killing her while I was standing there," Morphey said.
Peterson returned to the park within an hour of the calls and told him, "I need a hand at the house moving something. You got time?"
Morphey tried to beg off, explaining how his girlfriend had a medical procedure scheduled early the next morning. But Peterson wasn't taking no for an answer, Morphey said.
Suicide attempt
The day after the barrel incident, Morphey spoke on the phone with Peterson, telling him he wanted to hang himself, Morphey said. Peterson told him not to worry.
That night, Morphey started drinking again. He spoke on the phone with one of his brothers, whom he had earlier told some details about what happened over the weekend, and the brother told him that he had called the FBI about it.
"Then I said to him, 'That's it. It's over,' " Morphey said.
He hung up on his brother and swallowed the two bottles of pills. He said he tried to kill himself to protect his girlfriend and her sons - if he was dead and they knew nothing, they would be safe from Peterson, Morphey reasoned.
But Morphey's brother had called 911 and reported the suicide threat, and police and paramedics showed up at Morphey's home and rushed him to the hospital.
On his second day in the hospital, Morphey got his offer of immunity. Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow showed up himself to grant it. He had a couple state troopers with him, and they talked to Morphey in a coffee room.
"It was the first of many interrogations," he said. "They went easy on me there."
Morphey figures he has undergone about 40 hours of interrogation. "A lot of good cop-bad cop going on," he said, as well as threats to pull his immunity. Morphey said he also spent about five months away from his family for his protection.
Wondering whats up
Despite all the interrogation, state police hiding him out in small towns and his immunity agreement, Morphey has yet to testify before the grand jury probing Stacy's disappearance and Savio's death. He also has not gotten a call from the state police in quite some time, he said.
"All contact's pretty much been broken. I dont know what that's about," Morphey said, adding that he feels "betrayed."
A spokesman for the states attorneys office said he could not comment "on any aspect of a pending investigation."
Since the revelation that authorities believe Morphey helped Peterson dispose of Stacy's body, Peterson, 55, repeatedly has disparaged his stepbrother. Told of the new interview with Morphey, Peterson said Monday, "He's lying. He's hallucinating."
Last week, Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, issued a statement in which he said Morphey "has a documented history of severe mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction."
Morphey concedes he has been diagnosed as manic-depressive, was arrested twice for drunken driving and spent time in rehab after his mother's death. But he said he has straightened out his life - living with a woman and her three sons for about nine years.
"I just feel like the truth needs to be told at some point," Morphey said. "At this juncture, I don't know if I'll get my day in court."
He doesn't know if Peterson will have his day in court either.
"I never would have imagined I'd be sitting here 17 months later, and there hasn't been an arrest," he said. "I know what I know. Drew knows what I know."

http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1468473,031009peterson.article

[sarahhod]

This is one case where I truly hope justice is served for Stacy and kathleen.

[sarahhod]

Peterson's stepbrother finally tells his story

A summary of what Morphey told police about weekend of Stacy's disappearance


More at Link:- http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/genevasun/news/1468257,Peterson-stepbrother-talks_jo030909.article

[sarahhod]

Police dealing with Morphey again

State police talk to Peterson's stepbrother


More at Link:- http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/bolingbrooksun/news/1468258,Police-dealing-with-Morphey-again_jo030909.article

[Roamer]

Good. And I hope he hangs Drew out to dry. IMO

[sarahhod]

Peterson stepbrother speaks out

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | 7:23 AM


Drew Peterson's stepbrother reportedly believes that the former Bolingbrook police sergeant did kill his missing wife, Stacy. Tom Morphey told the Sun-Times that he thinks he unwittingly helped Peterson when he hauled away a blue barrel from his home.
Morphey has been granted immunity to testify but has yet to speak before a grand jury.
Peterson denies any involvement in his wife's disappearance.



More at Link:- http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6701128

[CSAFD]

Stepbrother Says He Thinks He Helped Drew Peterson Dispose of Wife's Body
Mar. 10, 2009

Drew Peterson's stepbrother fears that he had a hand in the murder of the former Illinois police sergeant's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson — telling a Chicago-area newspaper that he helped Drew Peterson dispose of a blue barrel that may have contained Stacy's remains.

Stacy Peterson disappeared in October 2007. Her husband has been the focus of a police and grand jury investigation, but he never has been charged.

Thomas Morphey, the stepbrother, told the Herald News that he thinks Stacy, 23, was in the blue barrel that he helped remove from the Petersons' home in Bolingbrook, Ill., and put into a car.

Beforehand, Morphey told the Herald News, Peterson, 55, had come to his home to take him to a nearby store where Peterson supposedly had set up an interview for him. But instead, the two went to a park, where a conversation led him to believe Peterson was planning to murder Stacy's boyfriend, Morphey said.

We went to that park to discuss Stacy cheating on him, and he had to take care of the problem,” Morphey told the newspaper. "I didn’t think for a minute he was going to try to kill her.”

Peterson started questioning Morphey's love for him and asked if he would kill for him.

When Morphey said no, Drew Peterson allegedly asked, "Could you live with knowing about it?"

Morphey told the newspaper that he responded, "Yeah, I guess," adding that he always figured Peterson had killed his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Savio's death in a bathtub was ruled a homicide after initially being deemed accidental. Savio's body was exhumed and re-examined after Stacy Peterson vanished.

Morphey told the Herald News that the night after meeting Peterson in the park, he met up with Peterson, who enlisted his help with the blue barrel.

Morphey was offered immunity by police to tell them what happened that night, but has yet to tell it to a grand jury, he said.

Peterson insists Morphey is lying.

"He’s hallucinating," he told the newspaper.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508386,00.html

[grammybears]

I read about this case earlier. Isn't it amazing that everybody else in the world has a problem but not Drew. I firmly believe in what Thomas has been saying. I can see no reason for him to lie about all of this. Tom seems like a smart man and even though he has had problems over the years does not mean he is not credible. Is there no end to DP's thinking that everybody is wrong but him. Unbelieveable.

[sarahhod]

Drew's attorney says authorities don't believe stepbrother's claims

March 11, 2009

By Dan Rozek and Joe Hosey, Sun-Times News Group


Police and prosecutors don't believe Thomas Morphey's explosive claims that he helped stepbrother Drew Peterson remove a mysterious blue barrel on the day that Peterson's fourth wife vanished, Peterson's attorney said Tuesday.
If they did, Morphey would have testified before the Will County grand jury that has spent 17 months probing Stacy Peterson's October 2007 disappearance, Joel Brodsky said.
"If they found him credible, (Morphey) would have been one of the first witnesses they would have brought in, and they would have based the entire investigation and the entire case on his testimony," Brodsky said at a news conference called to rebut Morphey's first public allegations against his stepbrother.
"The fact that they haven't done that I believe is clear evidence, they - the state's attorney and the state police - don't think he's credible," Brodsky said.
Morphey said the attacks on him by Brodsky and Peterson indicate they're fearful about the information he has disclosed.
"From the very beginning, they have done nothing but paint me in a certain light," Morphey said. "If there was nothing to hide, why would they go to the extremes that they have?"
In an interview published Tuesday in the SouthtownStar, Morphey said he helped Peterson carry a heavy blue barrel from Peterson's Bolingbrook home on the night that Stacy, then 23, vanished. Morphey believes the barrel contained her body - a thought he said drove him to unsuccessfully attempt suicide two days later.
Morphey also said that the day before the barrel incident, Peterson asked him if he loved Peterson enough "to kill for me" and whether Morphey could live knowing that Peterson had killed someone.
Morphey also said Peterson gave him a cell phone earlier on the night the barrel was moved, told him not to answer it and apparently called the phone twice from Stacy's cell phone.
Morphey has received an offer of immunity from prosecution for his testimony but said he has not been called before the grand jury probing Stacy's disappearance and the March 2004 murder of Kathleen Savio, Peterson's third wife.
Illinois State Police have described Peterson as the only suspect in Stacy's disappearance and are investigating him in Savio's murder.
A spokesman for State's Attorney James Glasgow refused to say why Morphey hasn't appeared as a witness.
But Brodsky said Morphey's history of mental illness, alcohol addiction and drug problems means that any testimony he gives is unreliable.
"A person like that has fantasies, they are delusional,'' Brodsky said. "You can't take somebody like that at their word. ... He's never going to testify, he's useless to (prosecutors)."
He said Peterson, 55, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, remains concerned that he could be charged in his fourth wife's disappearance, though he had nothing to do with it.
"Drew is obviously concerned,'' Brodsky said, adding that "anybody under the gun would have concerns."



http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1470374,031109drew.article

[LiveLaughLuv]

Too bad the authorities feel Morphy has no credibility. He had attempted suicide two days after this incident. Where is that blue barrel? Can he lead the authorities to it or has it since been moved?





"If they found him credible, (Morphey) would have been one of the first witnesses they would have brought in, and they would have based the entire investigation and the entire case on his testimony," Brodsky said at a news conference called to rebut Morphey's first public allegations against his stepbrother.
"The fact that they haven't done that I believe is clear evidence, they - the state's attorney and the state police - don't think he's credible," Brodsky said.
Morphey said the attacks on him by Brodsky and Peterson indicate they're fearful about the information he has disclosed.
"From the very beginning, they have done nothing but paint me in a certain light," Morphey said. "If there was nothing to hide, why would they go to the extremes that they have?"
In an interview published Tuesday in the SouthtownStar, Morphey said he helped Peterson carry a heavy blue barrel from Peterson's Bolingbrook home on the night that Stacy, then 23, vanished. Morphey believes the barrel contained her body - a thought he said drove him to unsuccessfully attempt suicide two days later.

A spokesman for State's Attorney James Glasgow refused to say why Morphey hasn't appeared as a witness.
But Brodsky said Morphey's history of mental illness, alcohol addiction and drug problems means that any testimony he gives is unreliable. "A person like that has fantasies, they are delusional,'' Brodsky said. "You can't take somebody like that at their word. ... He's never going to testify, he's useless to (prosecutors)." He said Peterson, 55, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, remains concerned that he could be charged in his fourth wife's disappearance, though he had nothing to do with it.
"Drew is obviously concerned,'' Brodsky said, adding that "anybody under the gun would have concerns."



Now I understand why the prosectutors feel he isn't credible.

Drew needs to remain concerned, this isn't the first time a wife of his went "missing". Hoping this all catches up to Drew and he gets his just desserts handed to him in the form of a jail cell.

Is he still with that young woman, Christina I think is her name? She needs to be very concerned about all this and move the hell out if she hasn't already. Drew got away with this once and now a second time, the third time might be the charm...get out while the getting is good! :madranting94dp:

[Roamer]

She dumped him several months ago, LLL.

[LiveLaughLuv]

She dumped him several months ago, LLL.

Roamer, they were just on I think the Today Show maybe a month ago. At first DP said it was a hoax. Her father was worried to death about his daughter and grandchild, that I saw on the Dr. Phil show. I don't know but I think up until recently she moved back into his home.

[sarahhod]

You are correct LLL.

She moved back in after about a week and claimed it was a publicity stunt.

http://www.wjla.com/news/aploader.ht...katv&id=594688 (http://www.wjla.com/news/aploader.html?js=katv&id=594688)

Drew Peterson fiancee hopes for summer wedding

A woman who previously called her engagement to a former Illinois police sergeant suspected in his wife's disappearance a publicity "stunt" says their engagement is real and she hopes to marry him this summer.Christina Raines told NBC's "Today" in an interview broadcast Friday that her father has made it clear he won't attend her wedding to Drew Peterson. The 24-year-old woman's family is scared for her safety.She didn't directly address her claim earlier this month their engagement was a publicity stunt.

Peterson has been named a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife. His third wife died in 2004, and the death was later ruled a homicide.

The 55-year-old Peterson has denied any wrongdoing.

[Roamer]

Oh, damn. Thanks. I thought she had finally grown a brain.

[sarahhod]

Drew's stepbrother appears on 'Good Morning America'
March 16, 2009


BY KARA SPAK (kspak@suntimes.com) Sun-Times Reporter


Thomas Morphey, stepbrother of former Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson, told "Good Morning America" in an interview aired Monday that he's convinced Peterson killed his fourth wife.
"I know he killed Stacy," Morphey said. "All the circumstances point to it."


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Drew Peterson's stepbrother Thomas Morphey was interviewed on "Good Morning America" this morning. Morphey told ABC, "I knew it wasn't, it wasn't good. He was planning on killing somebody."
(Tom Cruze/Sun-Times/Courtesy)



Appearing with his girlfriend Sheryl Alcox, Morphey said Peterson asked him "How much do you love me?" Morphey said he told him he loved him, but not enough to kill for him. Morphey described the hours before, during and after he helped Peterson move a blue barrel from Peterson's home into his SUV, a barrel Morphey now believes contained the body of Stacy Peterson. Morphey's first television interview followed similar revelations to the Chicago Sun-Times last week.
"I said ‘What about the smell?'" Morphey said on "Good Morning America." "He said it was in a sealed container."
Morphey added: "I knew it wasn't good. He was planning on killing someone."
Morphey said Peterson drove him home with the blue barrel in the back of his Yukon Denali. When he dropped him off, Morphey said Peterson told him that the incident never happened.
"I said ‘I won't say a word,'" Morphey said Monday.
Morphey was hospitalized after trying to kill himself following the alleged barrel moving incident. He then was put into state police custody for two months. He has yet to testify before an ongoing grand jury investigating Stacy's disappearance and the death of Peterson's third wife.
Morphey isn't the only speaking out. Peterson appeared on WIND-AM (560) Sunday with WIND personality Geoff Pinkus and newswoman Amy Jacobson, saying he and Morphey visited a storage facility the day before Stacy disappeared because he needed a place to store tires that were cluttering his garage.
He said he was just looking and didn't rent the storage space.
Morphey said on the interview airing Monday part of him wishes he had rented the unit.
"Sometimes I wish I had rented that locker just because we'd know where she was," he said, adding "I partially think the locker was put in my name so he could set me up."
Morphey called himself "the perfect target for (Peterson)" because of "credibility issues." The "Good Morning America" reporter said Morphey has a bipolar disorder, and Morphey has said he's struggled with drug and alcohol problems.
Peterson repeatedly has denied any involvement in the disappearance of Stacy, his fourth wife, or the death of his third wife Kathleen Savio. Savio was found dead in her bathtub in 2004. No charges have been filed against anyone in either of the cases.
Peterson's attorney Joel Brodsky has attacked Morphey's credibility, noting that he has yet to be called to tell his story to the grand jury despite extensive interviews with the Illinois State Police.
Morphey said in the interview Monday that Brodsky's job is to attack his credibility.



http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/1478860,drew-peterson-good-morning-america-031609.article

[sarahhod]

Drew Peterson Attorney Issues Statement on Thomas Morphey Interview on 'Good Morning America'

Joel Brodsky says he's disappointed in the decision by 'GMA' to ignore revelant facts.thepublicityagency.com (http://www.thepublicityagency.com/) - March 16, 2009



(PRNewsChannel (http://www.prnewschannel.com/)) / Chicago, Ill. / The following is a statement from Joel Brodsky on the interview of Thomas Morphey that aired this morning on ABC's 'Good Morning America.'

"I am disappointed that a network news program would choose to ignore information that would raise serious questions about Thomas Morphey’s version of events. "The correspondent, Chris Cuomo, mentioned that Morphey has not been called to testify to the grand jury but failed to mention that he has not been called because it is apparent that even authorities don’t believe him.
"Cuomo also failed to mention that people with bipolar disorder often become delusional. Morphey suffers from bipolar disorder.
"Morphey has concocted quite a tale. But it is just that: a tale… one that cannot and should not be believed. It is irresponsible for ABC to give it credibility when even authorities don’t believe it."


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