(WBBM/STNG) - Just in time for Valentine's Day, retired Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson's on-again, off-again fiancee has moved back in.
Twenty-four-year-old Christina Raines and her children returned Tuesday afternoon, and Peterson attorney Joel Brodsky proclaimed them happy.
"I'm his lawyer, not his relationship advisor," Brodsky said Tuesday night. "I just know that she's moved back in, that she's engaged, and they were never not engaged."
Raines herself said in an interview on the CBS "Early Show" Feb. 2 that the "engagement" was a "publicity stunt" by the 55-year-old Peterson to draw media attention, and that she'd acted with "my heart and not my mind" when she moved in the first time last month.
Brodsky Tuesday denied that it was a stunt orchestrated by him or by Peterson.
"She was much happier living with him than in her other arrangement," Brodsky said.
Raines said last week that she came to find Peterson too controlling.
Peterson remained married to his missing fourth wife, Stacy, who was last seen Oct. 30, 2007. Peterson is the sole suspect in the disappearance. His third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in an empty bathtub in 2004. An Illinois Appellate Court panel has ruled that the findings of a second autopsy on Savio, conducted last year, were reason enough to reopen Savio's estate. That allows the co-executors, Savio's father Henry and sister, Anna Doman, to file a wrongful death suit against Peterson, who has never been charged in either Savio's death or Stacy Peterson's disappearance.
Brodsky told WBBM that Peterson and Raines began speaking again Jan. 31 -- one day after she moved out, and two days before Raines appeared on the "Early Show" with her father, declining to answer questions about Stacy's disappearance, and answering other questions in a quiet, and at times unsure-sounding voice.
Raines' father is not happy about the development. "I'm not going to let this happen," said Ernie Raines, the father of 24-year-old Christina Raines. "I'm not going to wake up and get a call and have to look for my daughter."
"I don't know what I'm going to do now," Ernie Raines said Tuesday.
"I can't trust the Bolingbrook police," he said. "He was a cop."
The woman's father was still in Chicago on Tuesday night but vowed to get his daughter away from Peterson again.
"Believe me you, if I got to die for it or go to prison, I will," Ernie Raines said. "I won't let him destroy my daughter."
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