Accused wife killer Drew Peterson propositioned his best friend’s spouse – unaware she was wearing a wire and that police were listening to his sleazy come-on.
And in a stunning development, ex-cop Peterson asked the woman to model bikinis belonging to his missing fourth wife Stacy – and boasted that even if cops find her remains, he has nothing to worry about.
That’s just part of the dramatic evidence to be presented when Peterson’s trial for the murder of his third wife Kathleen Savio begins in August, The ENQUIRER has learned.
Paula Stark, 38, and her husband Len Wawczak, 42 – close friends of Peterson for 16 years – agreed to be wired after they became suspicious following the disappearance of his fourth wife Stacy, 23.
Over a harrowing seven-month period while being monitored by Illinois State Police, the couple say they trapped Peterson into talking about the death of Savio – and explaining why he’d be out of danger of arrest by the time Stacy’s remains were found. In one heart-stopping moment, Paula was alarmed when Peterson suddenly hugged her and asked her to model Stacy’s fur coats and bikinis.
She knew that if she agreed, the bugging device she was wearing would be exposed. “I Tthought a few times he might have felt it,” she revealed in an interview.
Peterson tried to kiss her, she said, “rubbing up against me, whispering in my ear, ‘I love you.’” She captured the aging Romeo on tape asking her to run off with him.
When she insisted that her husband wouldn’t let her go without a fight, Peterson replied chillingly: “Don’t make me shoot him.”
Len Wawczak was secretly taping his friend at the time cops reopened the investigation into Savio’s drowning death and exhumed her body.
Peterson, he said, told him coldly: “I should have had that bitch cremated. It would have cost me less, and I wouldn’t be going through this trouble.”
And when they discussed the hunt for Stacy, “he said he wasn’t worried about them finding Stacy’s remains down the road because he figured by that time, he would have been tried and acquitted – and you can’t be tried for the same case twice.”
Asked about the undercover work of the star witnesses, Illinois State Police commander Ken Kaupus said: “In a case of this magnitude, we’re going to use every available resource.”
