Arts & Entertainment

Trailer Released for Rob Lowe Crime Drama Filmed in Rossmoor

The My Lifetime movie "Untouchable," the story of cop-turned-accused-wife-killer Drew Peterson, was filmed last summer.

Remember back in July when there was a handsome older gentleman with a vague resemblance to Rob Lowe walking the streets of Rossmoor?

Well, he’s back…on Youtube, at least. Lowe, painstakingly made up as accused wife killer Drew Peterson, filmed portions of the My Lifetime movie Untouchable in Rossmoor last summer, and the trailer for the true crime drama was released this week. As noted this week on Patch’s sister publication, Huffington Post, “The 30-second trailer shows Lowe, as Peterson, proclaiming, "I'm untouchable, #$%!" to Cara Buono ("Mad Men"), who plays Kathleen Savio, Peterson's third wife, whom Peterson is accused of murdering. The film also features Kaley Cuoco ("The Big Bang Theory") as Peterson's fourth wife Stacy, who disappeared in 2007.”

However, an up and coming ingénue clearly steals the trailer. Locals will recognize brief glimpses of Rossmoor, but don’t blink or you’ll miss it.

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Peterson is a former Illinois cop accused of killing his third wife and suspected in the disappearance of his fourth wife.

During the filming in Rossmoor a dozen or so trailers—likely housing equipment, actors and crew— were parked at Weaver Elementary, as were fake police cars for the city of Bolingbrook, Ill., where the alleged-Peterson murders took place.

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Peterson, who awaits trial for the alleged Savio’s murder attempted to halt the film’s production, reported the Chicago Tribune. According to the newspaper, Peterson’s attorneys called the movie a jury-prejudicing "character assassination" and threatened legal action if filming did not halt while it was shooting in Rossmoor. Needless to say, the filming continued.

Peterson gained national notoriety shortly after his fourth wife Stacy Peterson disappeared in 2007. While she has never been found, her disappearance cast suspicion upon Drew Peterson, prompting an investigation to be reopened into his third wife’s death, which was initially classified as an accidental bathtub drowning. Throughout the investigation, Drew Peterson captivated and incensed many by granting numerous interviews and appearing on national television confident and jovial as police searched for his missing wife and closed in upon him as a suspect.

Peterson was indicted in 2009 in the Kathleen Savio case. On a side note, Untouchable is based on a book written by a Patch staffer Joseph Hosey called Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Sergeant Drew Peterson.

My Lifetime’s Untouchable trailer is featured to the right. Be warned: it contains profanity.


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