GUILTY IL - Drew Peterson charged with trying to hire hit man to kill Glasgow

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What does he have to lose? He is already 61 and is serving a 38 year sentence for murdering his wife. He knows he is only leaving prison in a body bag. Being the kind of person he is, he would, imo, enjoy seeing his enemies go first. :cow:
 
What does he have to lose? He is already 61 and is serving a 38 year sentence for murdering his wife. He knows he is only leaving prison in a body bag. Being the kind of person he is, he would, imo, enjoy seeing his enemies go first. :cow:

I can't help but think their is some reason that the prosecutor brought the charges. Why I am not sure but I feel confident there is a reason. And it is more than what is being told now. Is it to bring pressure against him to provide info about Stacey? I thought that at first, but I agree with you it just doesn't seem enough. Has he maybe made multiple tries and they need the conviction to put additional restaints on him? Or are they unsure if the current conviction will hold up to appeal and they want to ensure he doesn't get released?

The conviction he is under right now used a new law that allowed Kathleen Savio's words to be entered at trial. Basically she testified from beyond the grave. And there is speculation that the law was drafted because of this case. That new law has never been tested yet in the Supreme Courts.

So I feel pretty certain there are additional reasons why the charges were brought against him, even though he probably wouldn't live long enough to serve this time.
 
Reading the articles related to these charges a question occurred to me. The state has alleged that DrewP approached another inmate to solicit the murder. Usually in these cases it is the murder in exchange for something (money?)
DrewP is locked up so he can't go to the bank. So if money was the incentive, how was DrewP going to get access to it?
Was there someone else implicated in this?
 
... DrewP approached another inmate to solicit the murder. Usually in these cases it is the murder in exchange for something (money?)
DrewP is locked up so he can't go to the bank. So if money was the incentive, how was DrewP going to get access to it?
sbm bbm

Potential issue is not logistics of transferring $ to killer or someone, but more trying to cover the trail, jmo.

Gen'ly
speaking, many banking transactions can be handled by mail and/or online.
But IIUC, prison inmates have limited or no access to internet, so let's look at mail.
1. Accountholder gives written instructions (maybe on bank's form) to bank to issue cashier's ck
in amt of $XX,*advertiser censored*.oo, payable to order of Aaron T. Assassin & mail to 123 Main St., Smalltown, USA.

2. C/give bank written instructions to send by wire transfer (thru The Fed) to First Nat'l Bk,
for further credit to Aaron T. Assassin, w First Nat'l bank's routing # and Aaron's bank a/c #.
If Drew does not mind disclosing ID of payee-recipient, c/do either ^ way, but leaving clear e-trail.

Imo, someone in Drew's situation would try to blur e-trail by giving instructions to bank to -
- issue multiple checks in smaller amounts to same payee, like above, but over time.
- issue ck to someone else (brother, best bud?), after DrewP & other h/agreed he will transfer $ to Aaron.
Still quite e-traceable.

Payment thru other means? Not quite so easily tracable.
Is it poss Drew still has other assets, beside $ in banks, credit unions, brokerages?
3. A classic 1959 Thunderbird car, stored in like-new condition? Vintage mahogany ChrisCraft motorboat?
Transferring something like that would still create clear trail -- signing title and registration documents.

4. Does Drew have greenbacks stashed in a tree stump & trusted buddy to make a payment on his behalf?

Still 'analog-traceable.' Like the old saying - "Three can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead."
 
Yes there are means of making the payments. But as an ex cop DrewP would try to think of making it untraceable. A paper trail is something I don't think he would use because he would know that would be easily found and tracable. And is devastating in court. Now a third party, lines can be blurred there as long as any discussion is not recorded. If a trusted someone else took the money from his account and paid someone, or better yet the trusted person took the money and paid someone else, then they paid someone. That means the line get blurred more, but might cost him more. Could be covered by a person in need, DrewP just trying to help blah, blah blah.

All kind of a moot point because it doesn't sound like they let it go so far as money changing hands. From what I have read it sounds like they stopped it at the point they got him on tape. .

But it does make me wonder, DrewP at least thinks that he has the means to make this arrangement.
 
....All kind of a moot point because it doesn't sound like they let it go so far as money changing hands. From what I have read it sounds like they stopped it at the point they got him on tape. .
But it does make me wonder, DrewP at least thinks that he has the means to make this arrangement.
bbm sbm

Sorry I went into so much gruesome detail, but very few ways to pay without either leaving e-trail.
With or without e-trail, still leaves others who may have loose lips, at least under the right kind of pressure.

re bbm, was a $ amt mentioned or negotiated? I could have missed it. TIA.
 
If convicted on solicitation of murder for hire, will Drew P get a sentence like this man? I guess we can hope.

"A 31-year-old Chicago man will spend four decades in prison for attempting to enlist the help of a hit man to kill a Cook County assistant state's attorney...convicted last month ...sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison.
....plot came to light in February 2013, Carreon talked to a fellow inmate to recruit hit man to kill an assistant state's attorney who prosecuted and helped convict him of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old on numerous occasions.
... offered to pay $25,000 to an undercover officer posing as a hit man." bbm sbm

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_f55cdd4c-e44a-5542-9909-eea0c6ceaeba.html Mar 31, 2015
 
pretty good recap of events in 1 hour...............very evil man
poor children, Stacey's and Kathleen's are 7 years older now. I hope he has no contact with them.................
 
Reading the articles related to these charges a question occurred to me. The state has alleged that DrewP approached another inmate to solicit the murder. Usually in these cases it is the murder in exchange for something (money?)
DrewP is locked up so he can't go to the bank. So if money was the incentive, how was DrewP going to get access to it?
Was there someone else implicated in this?

(Obviously, I'm playing catch-up with this board, so please forgive "late" answers & observations.)

Good question about $$. I think DP still has some dough on the outside, and I guess somebody is sending the $40/month for his commissary <choke>, so maybe this outsider could be the bearer of the payoff. Maybe his inside buddy has a wife, mother, etc., outside who can collect the money, let the buddy know and e deal will be done all around.

Also, I think that various factions of county LE, county prosecutors, def attys, etc., prolly are getting their licks while they can against this conniving, evil, and awful man. He has sleazed around, taken advantage of so many in so many ways, ruined some lives, prolly taken part of the loot when a dealer was busted, etc., etc., and gotten away with that, so now they're just paying it forward. All JMHO.

Sock it to him, I say!!
 
99% probability that this case is based on the testimony of some guy looking for a deal to get out of his own legal problems, which means it is probably made up.
 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-drew-peterson-trial-jury-selection-met-20160515-story.html

article from May 14, 2016....here is direct quote....it appears the trial starts this Friday....and further quoted it will last a week.

"On Friday, jurors will again file into a courtroom, this time in the tiny Randolph County Courthouse in downstate Chester where Peterson is to stand trial on charges he attempted to find a hit man to kill Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow."

"The solicitation-for-murder trial is expected to last about a week, according to a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office, which is assisting the Randolph County state's attorney's office with the prosecution. If convicted, Peterson could face 60 years in prison in addition to his sentence for Savio's murder."
 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-drew-peterson-trial-20160523-story.html

From the witness stand in a downstate courtroom Monday, Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow dismissed his nemesis Drew Peterson as no different from any other murderer.

"I've convicted 98 murderers. He's just one," Glasgow said...

Glasgow's indifference Monday was in stark contrast to Peterson's testimony during his murder sentencing in 2013, when Peterson singled out Glasgow in a rambling 40-minute speech in which he bitterly complained that prosecutors had conspired to railroad him and demanded that Glasgow "never forget" him.
 

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