Drew Peterson Indicted In Wife's Murder

(CBS/AP)  Former police sergeant Drew Peterson, long suspected in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, was charged Thursday with murdering his third wife, whose 2004 death had been deemed accidental before authorities revisited it once Stacy Peterson vanished.

Authorities said at a Thursday night press conference that Peterson is being held on $20 million bond and faces two counts of murder in his third wife's death.

Joel Brodsky, Peterson's attorney, said his client would plead not guilty to the charges during an appearance on CBS' The Early Show Friday.

Illinois State Police Captain Carl Dobrich said the 55-year-old Bolingbrook, Ill. man was processed and transferred to the Will County Adult Detention Facility in Joliet.

Dobrich said officials have tracked more than 1,100 leads in Savio's death and the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, Drew Peterson's missing fourth wife.

The body of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found in an empty bathtub. Her death originally was ruled an accidental drowning, but authorities later said it was a homicide staged to look like an accident.

Peterson was arrested Thursday evening during a traffic stop in Bolingbrook, said Chuck Pelkie, spokesman for Will County state's attorney.

Savio's family has long voiced suspicions about the circumstances surrounding her death, especially after the October 2007 disappearance of Stacy Peterson, then 23.

Peterson, 55, is a suspect in the disappearance but has not been charged in that case. He has repeatedly said he thinks Stacy Peterson ran off with another man.

Savio's 73-year-old father, Henry, said Thursday that an arrest should have been made long ago.

"I always wondered" about her death, he said. "I was never pleased with the (coroner's finding of suicide) from the beginning."

In more than a year and a half since Stacy Peterson's disappearance, Drew Peterson has been under a media microscope, and at times he has seemed to relish the attention.

This week Selig said Peterson was interested in a job offer from a Nevada brothel that is the setting for the HBO reality show "Cathouse." An HBO spokeswoman said the network would sooner cancel the show than allow Peterson to appear on it.

[-lola]

»Kathleen Savio Emergency Room Report April 28, 1993
Age 29 - drugs; prenatal vitamins [delivered 4 months ago]
"was hit in the head with diningroom table"... "BBPD were at the house, BBPD Notified"
http://www.acandyrose.com/1993-05-00 HinsdaleEmergencyPg1.jpg


»Kathleen Savio Protection Order ..March 11, 2002
http://www.acandyrose.com/2002-03-11-OrderProtection-(pg21pdf).jpg
http://www.acandyrose.com/kathleen_savio_031102OrderProtection.htm


"I haven't received help from the police here in Bolingbrook and (am) asking for your help now - before it's too late," Kathleen Savio wrote in a letter dated Nov. 14, 2002, to a Will County assistant state's attorney.
- Letter, and Bolingbrook Police Domestic Incident Report - July 18, 2002
"Criminal Trespassing," "Unlawful Restraint" and "Domestic Battery" (on report)
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i//msnbc/Sections/TVNews/Dateline%20NBC/_Stories/2007/December/Drew%20Peterson/peterson_police.pdf


Autopsy Report: Kathleen Savio
- Bruises anterior and posterior (front and back) from one fall in the tub ?
http://www.acandyrose.com/kathleen_savio_030104AutopsyReport.htm

"She had about a dozen bruises on her body, including a laceration on the back of
the left side of the head," Baden said. "You don't get that in drowning in the bathtub."
Savio's sister Sue Doman said, "There was marks on her hips, her arms, her elbows,
on her legs." Baden also found fresh bruises on Savio's chest and abdomen and what appear to be defensive wounds on her hands ? evidence, he says, that her death was no accident. - http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3885064&page=1

[hamiltongrad]

PUT DOWN THE PITCHFORKS AND THINK


Being funny and upbeat does not mean that he is guilty.

Saw a review on TV NBC. This guy's only problem is that he liked young girls, and that they liked him, and got married to him, AND he believed that he could create a family life, even with the stress of being an undercover policeman ! It is a wonder and a miracle that this man can keep it all together with all this going on. Where does be get the energy and his center ?To the mob out there with hate and blame, what would you have him do ?


He is acting positive for his CHILDREN . Inside I am sure he is being torn up as anyone of you would be. This is like some kind of Hitchkock film of the average type guy, a working man wrongly accused.

And.. besides ..He has an iron clad alibi.

He was on duty the night of, and was with his kids the whole next day, in part looking for her, and even got a phone call from her, documented by records. Was she having an affair, due to the age difference ? Where is the physical evidence ? Women run away and break up marriages much more than men. I am not saying she did 100 % but we need to wonder what were her history and stresses as well. She got married too young, and felt she wanted a new life ??

And....HE is a great dad to 4 kids ! All this time he has not wavered from the need to take care of his kids. Doing it all.

There has been so many times that the MEDIA is out to get someone. IS this just another case ??

Some times LAZY police, media and the DA conspire to WRAP things up, so we all can feel safe, and cozy, even though it does not make any real sense. I suggest from what has been published, that this is so.

////// Just because he is a "class clown" does not make him a murderer. Come on.////



///// How would you react to see your whole world collapse and your wife missing, and now you are worried who will take care of your kids ? ///////


Take that stress and put it on the stress of police work, building up day after day, again and again risking his life, for the community... Why is there a mob mentality with pitchforks to get this poor guy, just because.... ?

[05ofem]

As I said, Hamiltongrad.... save your sympathies for a real human being.

[erb0087]

Nevermind.

The boldface is an HTML spillover from the report.

When you view the comments separately, they aren't boldfaced.

[erb0087]

Why are all the comments in this story appearing in boldface ?

[emma915]

Even if he didn't kill his wives, this man is a joke that's not funny.

[DaVicar5]

This Drew Peterson guy is really cool!
He's like Bonnie & Bonnie & Bonnie & Bonnie & Clyde, only he keeps running out of Bonnies.

[hamiltongrad]

Arrogant does not equal GUiLTY
///////////////////////the MASS MEDIA and the POLICE FREQUENTY ARE WRONG !!!

REMEmBER RicHARD JEWELL - the MEDIA had him ready for the GAS CHAMBER- and ruined his life--for a CRIME HE DId NoT commit AT THE OLYMPICS !!!

How about Bill Quidkly - Texas Police had him in Jail for 20 years, just because the facts indicated he was there, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and was the husband of his murdered wife, DNA saved him 20 years later !!!.

THE MASS MEDIA and the POLICE ALWAYS blame the husband, for everything from child abuse to run away ? missing children. HOW ABOUT THAT TERRIBLE CASE with the dead girl in the basement, IN COLORADO ??? Shame on the press and the police for hounding that poor family.
LAZY POLICE ??
But I understand that sometimes PATTERNS in life line up so that it makes some one look guilty, 99 % of the time they are actually innocent, and THEN THEY STOP LOOKING FOR THE REAL KILLERS. ( just watch those crime shows on cable... there are a lot of innocent people rail roaded to make the police and DA look good ! )

I

I think it is a repeated story. LETS ME FAIR, AND GIVE THE GUY A BREAK AND UNDERSTANDING. I SUPPOSE A LOT OF YOU HATED RICHARD JEWELL AND THAT POOR FAMILY ON BOLDER COLORADO TOO.

[honestabe8]

Just as every cop is a criminal, & just call me lucifer cause i'm in need of some restraint.
Posted by jfc15009

Well, six white horses that you did promise
Were fin'lly delivered down to the penitentiary
But to live outside the law, you must be honest
I know you always say that you agree
But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?

[jfc15009]

Just as every cop is a criminal, & just call me lucifer cause i'm in need of some restraint.