Drew Walter Peterson is a retired Bolingbrook, Illinois, police sergeant who was convicted in 2012 for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. In 2009, after the attention from StacyAnn’s disappearance, Peterson was indicted for her murder. He was convicted of the murder in 2012, and was sentenced to 38 years in prison on February 21, 2013. On February 9, 2015, he was charged with two additional felonies – solicitation of murder and soliciting murder for hire – for attempting to have Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow killed. Peterson was convicted on May 31, 2016, and sentenced to an additional 40 years on July 29, 2016. In December 2019, Peterson will be transferred to an undisclosed out of state facility
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Drew Walter Peterson is a retired Bolingbrook, Illinois, police sergeant who was convicted in 2012 for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson first received national publicity in 2007 when his fourth wife, Stacy Ann Cales Peterson, disappeared. Suspicions in Stacy Ann’s case were fueled in part by the death of Savio, whose bruised body was found in a dry bathtub in her home in 2004, with a large gash in her scalp. Initially, Savio’s official cause of death was found to be accidental drowning. In 2009, after the attention from StacyAnn’s disappearance, Peterson was indicted for her murder. He was convicted of the murder in 2012, and was sentenced to 38 years in prison on February 21, 2013. On February 9, 2015, he was charged with two additional felonies – solicitation of murder and soliciting murder for hire – for attempting to have Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow killed. Peterson was convicted on May 31, 2016, and sentenced to an additional 40 years on July 29, 2016. In December 2019, Peterson will be transferred to an undisclosed out of state facility. Peterson retired in November 2007 at age 53 with the rank of sergeant and was given a USD 79,000-a-year pension. His pension was terminated following his second conviction in May 2016. Peterson married accountant Kathleen SavIO on May 3, 1992. Together they had two sons, Thomas and Kristopher. Their divorce was finalized on October 10, 2003.
It was reported that between 2002 and 2004, police were called out to the Peterson house eighteen times on domestic disturbance calls, including calls for returning children late after visitation. Peterson and Carol Brown met in high school in Villa Park and together attended his senior prom. They married in 1974, but divorced in 1980, after Brown learned about Peterson’s infidelity. He married his second wife, Victoria \”Vicki\” Connolly, in 1982. They had sons Stephen Paul Peterson and Eric Drew Peterson. She divorced Peterson after he started dating Savio two months later. He and Savio married in 1992, and Peterson married Savio in 2003. In 2008, a former New York City medical examiner who conducted the examination at the request ofSavio’s relatives and Fox News, concluded that she died of drowning following a struggle when her body was placed in the bathtub. The body was exhumed and underwent forensic examination on November 16, 2007. The official autopsy results of the autopsy have yet to be released to the public. The Reverend Neil Schori, a pastor at Stacy Ann Peterson’s church, reported that Stacy had told him that Drew had killed her and had made it look like an accident, and that she was afraid of an accident. After the reopening of the case following the exhumation, a pathologist had determined that the death had been investigated as a homicide.
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