The Moment of Truth

As reported previously, people behind FOX's new game show, The Moment of Truth, are looking into ways to improve the program's sluggish pacing.  While producers are addressing the long pauses between questions in editing, they are also thinking of new gimmicks that will live up to the hype of the show that has surprisingly become a ratings success.

A reliable source tells TMZ that representatives for suspected wife killer Drew Peterson have contacted the producers of Moment of Truth, asking to hookup their client to a lie detector test on national television.

For those who are not familiar, The Moment of Truth is a game show where honesty is rewarded with a big cash prize.  Attached to a polygraph, contestants are thrown an array of personal questions and for each tier of questions answered correctly, the player wins the corresponding amount of money.  Should a contestant lie just once according to the polygraph test, the game ends and he loses everything.  However, if the contestant is proven to be truthful all the way, he gets to bring home a whopping $500,000.

Drew Peterson has been asked to undergo a lie detector test but has repeatedly refused to do so until now.  So far, FOX has no comment on TMZ's report.

A former Bolingbrook, Illinois police sergeant, Peterson has attracted nationwide attention for becoming a suspect in police investigation following the death of his third wife and subsequent disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy, who has been presumes dead since last October.

Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in a bathtub in March 2004.  At the time, her death was ruled accidental, but since Stacey's disappearance, Savio's body was exhumed for forensic examination and officials determined her death to be a "homicide staged to look like an accident."

Peterson has repeatedly denied involvement in both the death of his third wife and the disappearance of his fourth wife.



-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: TMZ
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