Saturday, November 10, 2012
The five day search for Stacy Peterson in Shorewood's Hammel Woods ended in failure.
After tromping through Hammel Woods for five days looking for missing mom Stacy Peterson, the FBI and Illinois State Police have called it quits. The massive FBI mobile command center set up in a parking lot off a Black Road entrance to Hammel Woods was gone by Friday afternoon and there was no sign of federal agents or state troopers lurking around the Shorewood forest preserve. District 5 state police spokeswoman DeAnn Falat failed to return calls Friday about the aborted search effort. Coroner Patrick O'Neil confirmed no remains were discovered during the week-long operation. The search attracted a great deal of attention, as a couple dozen agents and troopers showed up, put a boat in the water and poked around the park with dogs Monday…
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Federal agents and Illinois State Police were back at it again in the Shorewood forest preserve Thursday.
For a supposedly routine search, the FBI and Illinois State Police are sure investing a lot of time, effort and money. A couple dozen federal agents and state troopers spent a fourth full day in Shorewood's Hammel Woods, poking around the park for some sign of missing mom Stacy Peterson. A state police source close to the five-year-old Stacy Peterson case said on Monday the operation was just one of numerous searches conducted periodically in locations investigators believe Stacy's body may have been left. But the agents and troopers—along with high-tech equipment and cadaver dogs—returned the next day, and then came back again Wednesday and Thursday, leaving many wondering just what exactly has been happening in Hammel Woods. Cable news …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Despite wet conditions, state troopers and federal agents continued their search for Stacy Peterson in Shorewood's Hammel Woods.
For a second straight day, federal agents and Illinois State Police troopers combed through Hammel Woods in Shorewood, searching for a sign of missing mom Stacy Peterson. On Monday, a state police source confirmed troopers and FBI agents had launched a search for the vanished wife of disgraced former Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson. FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde also said agents with the feds' Evidence Response Team were in the woods "working with ISP as part of an ongoing criminal investigation." Despite persistent rain, agents and troopers were back at it Tuesday. The FBI provided a large recreation vehicle. On Monday, helicopters, boats and police dogs were employed in the joint operation. It was not clear how the inclement weather would …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Forest Preserve Police are working to stymie a pattern that has developed in which people are having sex at Hammel Woods in Shorewood.
A 55-year-old New Lenox man was charged with public indecency after police found him having sex in the woods, police said. According to Tracy Phillips, a lieutenant for the Will County Forest Preserve Police, an undercover officer from the department had been stationed at Hammel Woods in Shorewood on July 26 to investigate a series of complaints about sexual activity occuring in the forest. Police said Andrew Mekstan, of New Lenox, was having public sex and fled the scene in his truck when police arrived. Get Patch newsletters and breaking news alerts. While racing away, he allegedly drove around a locked forest preserve gate, into a ditch and then into a driveway at a mobile home community, Phillips said. The truck bottomed out when it…
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Shorewood police and Troy firefighters responded to a kayaking mishap in Hammel Woods that left one person hospitalized.
Shorewood police officers rescued a group of kayakers from the DuPage River Tuesday afternoon. A group of four kayakers spilled into the drink in Hammel Woods, said police Cmdr. Eric Allen. When officers arrived shortly after 3 p.m., one of the boaters had managed to make it onto the riverbank, Allen said. Another was safely on the dam. A third, who was wearing a lifevest, was clinging to a tree limb and holding onto a fourth. The fourth kayaker had plunged under the water. After officers pulled him to safety he was transported to Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center. Allen said the hospitalized boater was responsive. The kayakers were reportedly riding over the dam when their watercrafts capsized. The boaters ranged in age from 19 years …
cindy
10:20 pm on Sunday, December 2, 2012
Drew Peterson is a cold blood killer and he knows how to get rid of a body. he needs to rot away in jail!!!!!!!!!!!!! more ›