Drew Peterson Now a Suspect in Wife #4 Disappearance

by mpress | November 9, 2007 at 04:07 am

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In the immediate aftermath of
his wife's disappearance, Peterson told reporters the two talked on the
phone the day she disappeared and that he believed she was with another
man.

Peterson was divorced from Kathleen Savio, but
financial issues hadn't been completed, when her body was found in her
bathtub in 2004. There was no water in the tub.

[q
url="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,310138,00.html"]BOLINGBROOK,
Ill. — Authorities named a Bolingbrook police sergeant a suspect Friday
in the disappearance of his 23-year-old wife and announced plans to
exhume the body of his ex-wife.

"Drew Peterson went to being a person of interest to clearly a
suspect," said Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dorbrich at a press
conference.

Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in her bathtub in
2004, and at the time, her death was ruled accidental. Peterson's
current wife, Stacy, disappeared Oct. 29.

"We're formally reopening the investigation into the death of
Kathleen Savio," said James Glasgow, Will County State's Attorney, at
the press conference.

Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil, who reviewed Savio's autopsy,
said earlier this week that there were aspects of her death that
concerned him.[/q]

Stacey Peterson would be alive with her children today
if the coroner and officials in Chicago would have done the job they
claim they are qualified to do. Will
County Coroner Patrick O’Neil, who reviewed Savio’s autopsy, said
Wednesday that there were aspects of her death that concerned him.

The autopsy report found that Savio had a one-inch
“blunt laceration” on the left side of her scalp, her “hair is soaked
with blood” and she also had abrasions or bruises on seven different
places on her body.

Just take one look at that scum Drew Peterson and a
conversation with Savios family and I wouldn’t even have to examine her
body to know Drew offed her. But this goy is a cop and everyone just
wanted this thing to go away.

Susan Savio told a coroner’s jury in 2004 that her sister Kathleen Savio believed if something should happen to her, her death would only look like an accident.

Kathleen Savio, 40, was found dead in her bathtub in March 2004, her hair soaked with blood, just weeks before a financial settlement of a divorce with her husband, Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson, was to be finalized.

Susan Savio told the six-person jury when she learned of her sister’s death, “I asked if her ex-husband killed her,” according to a transcript released Thursday. “The reason I asked that is … they were divorced, but they did not settle anything [financially] … and she was terrified of that — him and him threatening her.”

The jury ruled the death was accidental. On Wednesday, Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil — who conducted the inquest — questioned the ruling, saying the death at least should have been ruled “undetermined.”

O’Neil’s statement prompted one juror Thursday to ask why the coroner did not express misgivings at the time.

“If the coroner thought we were wrong, why didn’t he say something?” Walter James asked. “The choices we had were that it was accidental, homicide or suicide. But now I’m hearing … that you can say ‘undetermined.’ And I don’t think [O’Neil] indicated that at the time I was on the inquest. I think if that had been brought up, or had been available at the time, that’s the way I would have gone myself.

Source: Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Prosecutors in Illinois are considering exhuming the body of a Bolingbrook police sergeant’s third wife after the coroner who reviewed the autopsy proclaimed her death was no accident.

Chuck Pelkie, a spokesman for the Will County State’s Attorney told FOX News that investigators reviewing the death of Kathleen Savio, the ex-wife of Drew Peterson, and are interested in inspecting the body, but needed to talk to Savio’s family first.

Savio’s death is being reviewed since Peterson’s current wife, Stacy, disappeared Oct. 29. Savio was found dead in her bathtub in March 2004, and at the time her death was ruled accidental.

“There were red flags upon initial review,” Pelkie said. “We are talking seriously about taking steps to exhume her [Savio’s] body.”

Fox