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BOLINGBROOK -- The bombshell revelation that his third wife's death was a homicide blew the bravado right out of Drew Peterson -- but not for long.

"I'm scared," Peterson said Friday from the doorway of his house. But soon after he offered to come outside for an interview if a female television news reporter agreed to don a bikini. Last year, TV reporter Amy Jacobson was released from her job with NBC 5 Chicago after she was filmed in a bikini while visiting the Plainfield home of Craig Stebic, whose wife Stacy disappeared.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/809161,4_1_JO23_PETERSON_S1.article
 
New autopsy results show his third wife was murdered, but Drew Peterson said Friday he doesn't believe the release of the medical report is a signal that he soon may be charged in her 2004 drowning death.

Still, Peterson, 53, said he's ready for whatever happens following the new conclusion that Kathleen Savio's bathtub death was not an accident.

"I'm just riding it out,'' Peterson said from the doorway of his Bolingbrook home.

"It's just more controversy, more bulls--t.''

http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/809387,CST-NWS-drew23.article
 
The death of the third wife of former police officer Drew Peterson has been officially declared a homicide after a second autopsy revealed she drowned, the Will County state's attorney said Thursday.

Kathleen Savio's body was exhumed in November after Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared and questions arose about Savio's death.

Peterson's family members said the findings confirmed every suspicion they already had about Peterson, Ponce reported. Peterson declined to comment on the story.

"There's not a doubt in my mind," said Kerry Simmons, Stacy Peterson's stepsister. "I think he had something to do with it, and he had something to do with Stacy being gone."

Simmons also said that "there were mistakes" made in the autopsy four years ago.

http://www.nbc5.com/news/15371585/detail.html?dl=headlineclick
 
This is what Kathleen Savio wanted: Someone to know that she was murdered. But now, as authorities this week classified the death of Drew Peterson's ex-wife as a homicide and not an accidental drowning--as it was in 2004 when her body was found in her bathtub--the question is whether investigators are any closer to finding her killer.

The Will County state's attorney's office and the Illinois State Police are not calling Peterson a suspect as he's been called in the disappearance of his current wife, Stacy Peterson. But to some who have followed the case, authorities--who only took a second look at Savio's death after Stacy Peterson vanished last fall --are sending a clear signal they are onto something.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/811061,4_1_JO25_PETERSON_S1.article
 
February 27, 2008

Drew Peterson's gun card revoked

Chigcago Tribune - "Meanwhile, while Brodsky and Peterson flew to New York for his third appearance on the NBC show, Brodsky's law partner, Reem Odeh, questioned the way the case was being managed.

"I'm concerned that there's more emphasis and more of an effort to cater to the media frenzy than there is to looking into the issues surrounding the investigations," Odeh said. "It just seems to me that when there's nothing going on with the investigation and things are quiet in the media, it seems like sometimes either Joel or Drew says something to start the media frenzy all over again."

Brodsky has mounted an aggressive campaign for media coverage, including interviews with national TV shows.

Asked whether she discussed those issues with Brodsky, Odeh said, "Absolutely. I don't think it's appropriate. I think it is in the client's best interest to keep it quiet and focus on the case. But he just says the case is going to make us famous and we're all going to get book deals."

Odeh said she plans to meet with Peterson soon and explain to him that she believes he should behave in a more professional manner, and if that doesn't happen, she'll push to have him dropped as a client."

February 28, 2008

Peterson's sons to testify before grand jury

"ABC News has learned Peterson's sons with his third wife, Kathleen Savio, have been granted immunity, so they have to testify."

Drew Peterson: ‘I’m prepared for anything’
Former police officer speaks out about missing wife, death of third wife

Today Show
By Mike Celizic

"While continuing to assert that he had nothing to do with the death of one wife and the disappearance of another, Drew Peterson said he’s mentally prepared to be charged and put on trial in connection with one or both cases.

“I’m prepared for anything,” Peterson told TODAY’s Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview on Thursday.""

Video of Today Show interview included at that link.

Drew Peterson says he's psychologically ready to be arrested
Former Bolingbrook cop again appears on 'Today' show

Peterson Still Maintains He Did Nothing To Wives
Juror On Kathleen Savio's 2004 Inquest Apologizes For Coroner's Ruling

"Jim Pretto told the ABC program "Good Morning America" that there was not enough evidence presented in 2004 to back up claims by the woman's family that she had been murdered."

Peterson denies role in Savio's death, disappearance of wife
 
The original autopsy for Kathleen Savio declared her death an accident. Now investigators say it's a homicide, and the original coroner is under fire.

That coroner is speaking out Thursday for the first time, exclusively to CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli.

And the attorney for Savio and missing woman Stacy Peterson is breaking his silence.

http://cbs2chicago.com/westsuburbanbureau/kathleen.savio.peterson.2.671627.html
 
Drew Peterson says he had no idea that just days before his wife Stacy disappeared she had contacted the same attorney who represented his previous wife in their divorce.

"I was pretty shocked," Peterson, 54, said Friday when asked for his reaction to the attorney's comments.

Harry Smith, a Wheaton attorney who represented Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, in their divorce, said Friday that Stacy Peterson, 23, called him in late October to inquire about a divorce from her husband of four years, but did not retain his services.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-drew-peterson-both_08mar08,0,6223966.story
 
But Drew claims he found it after her death

While she was divorcing Drew Peterson, Kathleen Savio said she didn't have a will, her former lawyer said Friday.

Attorney Harry Smith's statement raises new questions about a two-page, handwritten will that Drew Peterson unveiled 15 days after his ex-wife drowned in her bathtub in 2004.

The will -- dated March 2, 1997 -- named Peterson's uncle James B. Carroll as executor of Savio's estate. Carroll later awarded Peterson control of virtually all of Savio's assets, although Peterson and his third wife already had divorced.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/832553,CST-NWS-boling08.article
 
From City Hall to Tomczak to Savio case, a tangled web
By John Kass

An opinion piece, but interesting, nonetheless.

"We called Tomczak for comment, about the Savio evidence, Tomczak's relationships with Peterson and Claar and other matters.

"Maybe I'll send my statement over, and if you don't print the whole thing and say you did print the whole thing, I'll call a press conference and tell the other reporters what you did not print," he said.

Well, three days after his latest threat, still no statement. Too bad. The Savio case he wouldn't charge has since been ruled a homicide. Glasgow calls it a murder investigation. A special grand jury is investigating that and Stacy Peterson's disappearance."
 
For months, Drew Peterson has been an official suspect in the disappearance of his wife and the subject of speculation about the drowning death of one of his previous wives.

But since Stacy Peterson vanished in late October and authorities reopened the investigation into the 2004 death of Kathleen Savio, Peterson has not set foot in a courtroom in either case.

That is expected to change Monday. At 9:30 a.m. Peterson is scheduled to appear in a Joliet courtroom on a matter concerning the disappearance of his wife. The issue on which he will appear is relatively minor -- the planned return of his cars, computers and other items that police seized as part of their investigation of his wife's disappearance -- but it may nevertheless be significant.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=6021103
 
Lawsuit could alter Savio estate
March 18, 2008
By STEWART WARREN STAFF WRITER

"JOLIET -- On April 17, Will County Judge Carmen Goodman will consider the possibility of reopening Kathleen Savio's estate.

If she allows that to happen, lawyers for Savio's family could begin investigating the way her estate was handled and the distribution of her assets, including thousands of dollars from the sale of a home and a business she owned with her ex-husband, Drew Peterson.

In the end, a wrongful death lawsuit might be filed, those lawyers said Monday morning."

and

"In February, some members of Savio's family filed documents in court asking a judge to reopen her estate. They wanted to take control of it and remove Carroll as executor while considering the possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit. Other members of Savio's family also filed a similar request, and now both sides are working together, explained Lawrence Varsek of Joliet, one of the lawyers representing the relatives."
 
Forensic pathologist who examined Kathleen Savio's body appears before grand jury
Panel investigating death of Drew Peterson's 3rd wife, disappearance of Stacy Peterson

Tribune staff report
March 28, 2008

"A Will County special grand jury convened to investigate the death of Drew Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, and the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy, heard Thursday from a doctor who autopsied Savio, a source said.

Dr. Larry W. Blum is the forensic pathologist who performed the Nov. 13 autopsy. In his report, he determined that "compelling evidence exists to support the conclusions that the cause of death . . . was drowning and further, that the manner of death was homicide.""
 
The second wife of Drew Peterson appeared Thursday before the Will County special grand jury investigating the death of Peterson's third wife and the disappearance of his current wife.

Vicki Connolly, who was married to Peterson for 10 years, declined to discuss her appearance before the grand jury as she left the Joliet courthouse annex. Connolly told the Tribune last year that Peterson was controlling and told her he could kill her and make it look like an accident.

Peterson's former fiance Kyle Piry also spoke to the grand jury Thursday. Piry, who has said she was engaged to Peterson in the 1980s, told reporters she hoped it was the last time she would be involved in the case.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peterson_04_bothapr04,0,1110941.story
 
Peterson's Exes Testify Before Grand Jury

Prosecutors paraded a pair of Drew Peterson's past lovers before a grand jury Thursday.

Peterson's former fiancee, Kyle Piry, and second wife, Vicki Connolly, went before a grand jury specially convened to review the death of the embattled ex-cop's third wife, Kathleen Savio, and the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson.

http://www.nbc5.com/news/15792166/detail.html
 
Measure would loosen hearsay restrictions at trials

A Will County state senator has filed a measure that, if passed, could influence the type of evidence allowed in a possible prosecution of Drew Peterson.

Sen. A.J. Wilhelmi (D- Joliet) has offered an amendment to the state's code of criminal procedure, backed by State's Atty. James Glasgow, that would allow hearsay testimony if the witness who made the statements was not available to testify in person because the defendant had a hand in that person's absence.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-drews-law_15apr15,0,5372882.story
 
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