Drew Peterson offered a $25,000 reward Wednesday for information leading to the return of his wife Stacy, who disappeared six months ago.The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Peterson said he hoped the reward would bring his wife home, but he was still adamant she left him for another man, according to a press release issued by the public relations firm he hired. He expected her to contact him or their children, but she hasn’t, the release noted.

“I don’t know whom she left with or where they are,” Peterson said, according to the statement. “Maybe the money will prompt someone to come forward with a lead. Her children miss her, and people believe I had something to do with her disappearance.”

State police have named Peterson, 54, a suspect in the Oct. 28 disappearance of his wife, Stacy, then 23, from their Bolingbrook home.

Authorities also are investigating as a homicide the 2004 death of Peterson’s third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found drowned in her bathtub just weeks before the couple’s divorce settlement was to be finalized.

Peterson has not been charged with any crime and denies any wrongdoing in either case.

Stacy’s friend and neighbor Sharon Bychowski dismissed the reward offer as another attempt by Peterson to improve his image.

“I think he has never ever helped to find Stacy,” she said. “This is too little, too late, Drew.”

Peterson’s news release asked that information about her disappearance be sent to stacytips@yahoo.com. The e-mails will be opened and read by a team of investigators hired by Peterson, not by Peterson himself or his attorneys, according to the press release. Legitimate leads will be forwarded to law enforcement authorities, it said.