Good Friend of Big Name Republicans - Alleged Serial Rapist Greg Peterson - Commits Suicide While Out On Bail

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Is this why Republicans are so eager to redefine rape?

Greg Peterson–self-promoting glad-hander, best friend to a whole slough of Republican Big Name politicians, host of many GOP fundraisers in Utah, and vicious serial rapist–has decided to spare his victims the additional trauma of going through court proceedings, as he has apparently died in the same cabin in Heber, Utah where several of the rapes were said to have taken place. Of course, by choosing suicide, he also denied his victims their day in court.

After Peterson missed an appointment with his attorneys after being released on bail, Wasatch County, Utah sheriff's officials were dispatched and found Peterson dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Peterson, 37, was charged by authorities this July and was facing 25 charges of assault, rape and kidnapping. He apparently met his victims on Facebook, at church functions, and on Mormon dating websites. (Thump And Whip claims that the charges were "nine counts of forcible sexual abuse, seven counts of rape, three counts of object rape, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, forcible sodomy, assault, burglary and sexual battery." So, there's that. Make of it what you will.)

One Peterson Facebook invitation allegedly read: "Tell guard at gate that u r guests of Greg Peterson's Moose Lodge on Witts Lake. Doesn't that make you feel special? It should."

Peterson at his Rape Cabin

Ryan J. Reilly of TPM Muckraker reports that four of the attacks are said to have taken place in March, July and December in 2011 and April 2012; the time a fifth attack took place has not been made clear. One victim, a (Mormon) church acquaintance, says Peterson forced her inside his cabin after telling her he had a gun. Four of the victims testified that Peterson had fondled them over their clothing without their consent.

CNN adds:

Four separate times, prosecutors say, Gregory Peterson lured women under the pretext of a movie or lunch — and sexually assaulted them. He kept one captive in his mother's house for several days, they said. He threatened to report another, whose visa had expired, for deportation, charging documents alleged. And in each case, authorities said, he forced the women to engage in sex acts by pointing to guns he possessed. [...]

The first woman, identified only as S.M., described meeting Peterson at a church event in March 2011 and agreeing to go to a movie with him. Instead of going to the theater, she said, he drove her to his cabin, assaulting her both on the drive and during the night. The woman said she was scared because there were weapons both in the car and in his cabin. Peterson drove her back to her car the next morning, she said.

The other women said they met Peterson online. One said Peterson asked her to dinner in July 2011 but instead drove her to his cabin, sexually assaulting her on the way and through the night. She said he talked about her expired visa and threatened to deport her. Peterson then drove her to his mother's house and kept her there for three days before driving her home and assaulting her again, she said. [...]

A bail bondsman found Peterson in his Wasatch County cabin Tuesday evening while checking on him because his ankle monitor signal was getting weak, Sheriff Todd Bonner said.

Peterson claimed to have an MBA in Finance from Brigham Young University, and also claimed that he was a certified financial planner who owned an Orem-based wealth management company and an online trading website.

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[Danno 1,228]

Guess that one way to go out an innocent man.

I bet if you dug into this story dude you would find Romney was in the closet filming those rapes with one hand on the camera and the other on his....

Well I'll let you finish it, it's your story.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Thanks Steven! Now I am going to vote for Obama.

[Danno 1,228]

Thanks Steven! Now I am going to vote for Obama.

I bet there is a Charlie Manson connection..... didn't they have that hippy compound out in the dessert..... and isn't Utah kinda dry?

I knew it.

Didn't Manson have like all those groupies to sleep with... kinda like Mormonism ehh?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Topic title has been edited to reflect more accurately the contents of the article. Please do not add information to the title that is not in the article itself.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Topic title has been edited to reflect more accurately the contents of the article. Please do not add information to the title that is not in the article itself.

Uh, this was the original title if you click on the link...

Mitt Romney's BFF, Alleged Serial Rapist Greg Peterson, Commits Suicide While Out On Bail

[Pooky 3,833]

Uh, this was the original title if you click on the link...

That's what you get for quoting a left-wing loony site - a headline selected to create a stir, when the content doesn't support the headline.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

That's what you get for quoting a left-wing loony site - a headline selected to create a stir, when the content doesn't support the headline.

I believe those are the only sites he knows.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

It helps to actually read the article with its references before commenting on it.

Peterson has billed himself online as a "close personal friend of the Romney family," and posted video on Youtube of Romney speaking at a 2007 fundraiser at Romney's home in Deer Valley. He contributed $2,300 to the Romney campaign that year. In addition, he posted several photos of himself and Romney on his Facebook page.

But Chaffetz, who said he has been at most of the Romney events in Utah over the last few years, said he never saw Peterson at any of them. "I seriously doubt" he is close with the Romneys, Chaffetz said. Peterson did attend a national call day in Las Vegas, where supporters were invited to come and make phone calls for the Romney campaign, Chaffetz said.

Oh, would that be Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz? The one shown here at Peterson's cabin taking a picture with Peterson?

Picture from "Thump And Whip" website

Chaffetz (R-UT) may "doubt" that Peterson was "close" to the Romneys (R-Oligarchistan), but Mitt Romney and Peterson have socialized at several VIP GOP events and fundraisers–including theRocky Mountain Conservatives Convention and Barbecue held at his cabin–and Peterson had co-chaired a fundraiser specifically in honor of Romney as well.

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[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

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[Karee 4,191]

Shocker!

[lostinblue 1,989]

In a few hours steve will even find a Romney connection here.

http://www.freep.com/article/20121025/NEWS07/121025079/New-York-City-police-officer-cannibal-Gilbert-Valle

NYC police officer arrested for planning to cook women

[scotinmass 588]

In a few hours steve will even find a Romney connection here.

http://www.freep.com/article/20121025/NEWS07/121025079/New-York-City-police-officer-cannibal-Gilbert-Valle

NYC police officer arrested for planning to cook women

It's a well known fact that republican politicians cook and eat women. At least I think I read that somewhere. They stalk them through the woods and shoot them first.

Or was that deer? I can't remember but either way they are evil and not fit to govern a country.

[lostinblue 1,989]

It's a well known fact that republican politicians cook and eat women. At least I think I read that somewhere. They stalk them through the woods and shoot them first.

Or was that deer? I can't remember but either way they are evil and not fit to govern a country.

A future republican voter

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Please stop the personal attacks - restrict your discussion to the contents of the posted article and not the poster.