Drew Peterson Connection to the Penn State Scandal?

Should former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who is now accused of 40 counts of molestation and abuse, have acted more like Drew Peterson when he went on NBC's '30 Center' on Nov. 14? 

According to a recent New York Times article analyzing the interview between Sandusky and Bob Costas, it couldn't have hurt.

From the New York Times:

The accusations — and there are 40 counts of molestation and abuse — are shocking. But so was the contorted way in which Sandusky maintained his innocence...

If the strategy was to present Sandusky in a more sympathetic light, it was a misfire that did nothing to help his case...

Viewers are accustomed to seeing ordinary people behaving badly for the sake of fame. They are inured to tabloid celebrities charged with terrible crimes proclaiming their innocence on television, but even the worst usually go on camera with a well-rehearsed version of events. A cocky Drew Peterson, for example, coolly denied killing any of his wives on “Larry King Live.” (He is awaiting trial in the death of his second wife, Kathleen Savio.) Peterson might not have been persuasive, but he was certainly polished.

Sandusky was anything but. 

A fifth bid to get Peterson, who is accused of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, out of the Will County jail fell on deaf ears at the Illinois Supreme Court in September.

Peterson has been locked since May 2009 on murder charges. The former Bolingbrook cop has been in legal limbo since prosecutors appealed a ruling on hearsay evidence the day before his trial was to start in July 2010.

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