Cop's Wife Disappears
The disappearance of Stacy Peterson, the wife of a suburban Chicago police officer, triggered two investigations — one into her fate and the other into the death of Drew Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio. Events since Stacy Peterson vanished:
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Stacy Peterson is reported missing, a day after she fails to show up to a relative's home.
|
|
|
|
Police search the home of Drew and Stacy Peterson. Police divers search a nearby pond and investigators use cadaver dogs.
|
|
|
|
Investigators execute another search warrant at the Peterson home.
|
|
|
|
Illinois State Police declare Drew Peterson a suspect in his wife's disappearance and say they've formally launched an investigation into the death of Peterson's previous wife, Kathleen Savio, saying it does not appear to be an accident as originally determined.
Judge signs order to exhume Savio's body.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Drew Peterson resigns from the Bolingbrook Police Department, where he's been an officer for 29 years.
|
|
|
|
Savio's body is exhumed and an autopsy is conducted.
|
|
|
|
Drew Peterson appears on NBC's "Today" show where he proclaims his innocence and reiterates his contention that Stacy Peterson left him for another man and is alive.
|
|
|
|
Drew Peterson appears on NBC's "Today" show where he proclaims his innocence and reiterates his contention that Stacy Peterson left him for another man and is alive.
|
|
|
|
Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden conducts autopsy on Savio's remains at the request of her family; says it looks like she was murdered.
|
|
|
|
An autopsy on the exhumed body of Drew Peterson's third wife found her death was not an accident. Kathleen Savio died by drowning and her death was ruled a homicide, Dr. Larry W. Blum said in an autopsy report released by the state's attorney's office. It was the second autopsy performed on Savio. She was found dead in her bathtub in March 2004, shortly before her divorce with Peterson was finalized. Four years ago, a coroner's jury ruled her death was an accident. Peterson told a newspaper the new ruling in Savio's death shocked him.
|
|
|
|
Credits:
CBS/AP
|
|
|
