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In response to a conclusion by an independent pathologist that Drew Peterson's third wife died in a homicide, Peterson's attorneys said her death "should not be a source of entertainment."

As CBS 2's Rafael Romo reports, nationally renowned pathologist and former New York City chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden concluded that Kathleen Savio died in a homicide. He said it was evident that she had been the victim of foul play after just taking a first look at Savio's body, which was exhumed earlier this week.

"My experience has been normal, healthy adults don't die accidentally in bathtubs, period," Baden said.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/kathleen.savio.homicide.2.570332.html

 

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Carol Brown was five months pregnant with Drew Peterson's first child when she had a miscarriage. She had been bed-ridden in the weeks before, and Peterson was by her side, bringing her food and "always being very supportive of me," she said.

It would have been the couple's first child, and Peterson was devastated, she said. Speaking publicly for the first time since the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, Peterson's fourth wife, Brown, 50, described her ex-husband's support during the traumatic pregnancy and painted a more nuanced portrait than the increasingly controlling and suspicious husband described by his second wife and relatives of other wives.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-brown_18_webnov18,0,7591973.story

 

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There are new comments from Drew Peterson Sunday morning. They come after a third autopsy was performed on his third wife, casting more doubt on the circumstances surrounding her death. CBS 2's Rafael Romo reports on what Peterson had to say.

Speaking to reporters outside his Bolingbrook home Saturday night, Drew Peterson said he's coping with his situation.

"I'm just ready for anything that may come," he said. "So I'm just working through the days. I'm doing fine. I'm just, uh, I lost 30 pounds. Jenny Craig has got nothing on me 'cause I lost 30 pounds through this ordeal, you know, it's very nerve-wracking."

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/drew.peterson.stacy.2.570736.html

 

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Missing Mom's Early Romance Hid Dark Future Ahead
Toward the End, Stacy Peterson Wanted a Divorce, Friends Say
By CHRISTINE BROUWER

Nov. 18, 2007 —

"By all accounts, Stacy Peterson once loved her husband, 53-year-old police sergeant Drew Peterson.

But by the time she vanished from her home in Bolingbrook, Ill., three weeks ago, friends say she had grown fearful of the man they say mentally abused her, and had decided to end the marriage.

"She would always look over her shoulder," said family friend Bruce Zidarich of meeting Stacy in the weeks before she went missing. "She said, 'I'm gonna tell him that I want a divorce.' ... It came up more and more often."

It wasn't always that way. Stacy Peterson's disappearance, say her relatives and friends, capped an explosive seven-year relationship that started with a teenage girl swept off her feet with attention and gifts from a man 30 years her senior, then turned progressively sinister as her once-loving husband grew increasingly controlling and suspicious, forbidding her to see family and friends, and accusing her of infidelity."

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""Stacy Cales was just 16 years old when she met Drew Peterson, according to her sister, Cassandra Cales. She had recently graduated high school a year early and was working the night shift as a receptionist at a local hotel.

"He was a night commander," Cales said of Drew Peterson, who was in his late 40s at the time and a two-decade veteran of the Bolingbrook Police Department. "He used to go in there and check on her -- you know, sweep the hotel and make sure that everything was okay."

The pair started dating. But Stacy, still underage, didn't immediately tell her family about the new man in her life. Drew Peterson was married at the time to Kathleen Savio, his third wife."

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Former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson, named as a suspect in his fourth wife's disappearance, this morning disputed the findings of an independent pathologist that his third wife was murdered.

Or rather, his lawyer did.

In his second interview within five days on NBC's "Today" show, Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, did most of the talking, clearly frustrating interviewer Matt Lauer.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peterson_webnov19,0,1245434.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

 

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Drew Peterson’s exes speak out
Nov. 21: Three out of four of Drew Peterson exes now say he threatened them. Dan Abrams discusses new details in the case with WBBM radio’s Mary Frances Bragiel and attorneys Bill Fallon and David ...

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=...1-7d91ba9a4781

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HILLSIDE -- Henry Savio dropped a red rose on his daughter's white casket during an emotional funeral service this week as Kathleen Savio was returned to her grave.

Other family members and friends somberly followed suit, adding roses wreathed with baby's breath to the new casket that was reburied Monday at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/666151,4_1_JO25_MISSING_S1.article

 

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According to published reports, a Bolingbrook woman who has been missing for a month told a clergyman that her husband had killed his former wife and made it look like an accident. Stacy Peterson has been missing for a month, and is married to former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson.

A source revealed the information to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed, NBC5 reported Wednesday night. The source said Stacy Peterson told the clergyman last August that her husband had killed Kathleen Savio, who was his third wife.

The Sun-Times also reported that on Oct. 28, the day she disappeared, Peterson told her husband she was leaving him, and issued an ultimatum. Peterson told her husband that she was planning a divorce and wanted him out of the house by the following Wednesday.

http://www.nbc5.com/news/14710779/detail.html

 

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STACY PETERSON REPORTEDLY KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT A DEATH AND WANTED A DIVORCE.

Stacy Peterson told a clergyman in August that her husband had claimed to have killed his former wife, Kathleen Savio, and made it look like an accident, according to a source close to the investigation

The source said the 23-year-old, who had been pregnant and living with Peterson when Savio was found dead in an empty bathtub in 2004, also told two other people close to her about her husband's statements regarding Savio's demise.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/672616,4_1_JO29_PETERSON_S1.article

 

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Sneed's column from today Nov. 29.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/673072,CST-NWS-SNEED29.article

 

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Pastor: Ex-Cop's Missing Wife Feared Him
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BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — The wife of a former police officer told a clergy member months before she disappeared that she feared her husband, a church official said Thursday, echoing comments the woman's sister made soon after she vanished.

Stacy Peterson requested a meeting in late August with a member of the Westbrook Christian Church pastoral staff when the church made a routine call to see why she and Drew Peterson had not attended recent services, Rob Daniels, the church's pastor of spiritual formation, told The Associated Press.

At the meeting, Peterson said "she feared for herself because of her husband," Daniels said.

He would not say whether Peterson was afraid her husband would kill her, only that she feared "bodily harm."

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A former police officer's third and fourth wives had a history of animosity, including an incident where one allegedly punched the other in the face, according to a police call log released Friday.

Drew Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, was later acquitted of charges that she struck Stacy Peterson in May 2002 because the younger woman was in the car during a child custody exchange.

Police responded to 19 calls for help in less than two years involving fellow officer Drew Peterson, Savio, his ex-wife who was found dead in 2004, and Stacy Peterson, his current wife who is missing and feared slain.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...erson-log,0,63379.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

 

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A former police officer's third and fourth wives had a history of animosity, including an incident where one allegedly punched the other in the face, according to a police call log released Friday.

Drew Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, was later acquitted of charges that she struck Stacy Peterson in May 2002 because the younger woman was in the car during a child custody exchange.

Police responded to 19 calls for help in less than two years involving fellow officer Drew Peterson, Savio, his ex-wife who was found dead in 2004, and Stacy Peterson, his current wife who is missing and feared slain.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5806402

 

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A minister from Plainfield said on national TV on Monday night that as he counseled Stacy Peterson in the months before she disappeared, she told him her husband admitted killing his ex-wife Kathleen Savio.

Rev. Neil Schori, formerly of Westbrook Christian Church in Bolingbrook, said Stacy Peterson, 23, blurted out that “he did it,” referring to her husband, Drew Peterson, 53, whose ex-wife was found dead in her bathtub in 2004. Savio’s death was ruled an accidental drowning at the time, but her body recently was exhumed for a second autopsy. Those results have not been released.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peterson_11dec11,0,4382928.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

 

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December 11, 2007 (BOLINGBROOK, Ill.) -- A former police officer's missing wife once confided in a pastor that her husband admitted killing his third wife, according to a published report.

Former Westbrook Christian Church pastor Neil Schori told Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren that he was "reeling inside" after his conversation with Stacy Peterson.

Schori said he asked Peterson when they met in August at a coffee shop to clarify what she had said about her husband, Drew Peterson, and she responded, "'He killed Kathleen (Savio)."'

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=5826949

 

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A minister from Plainfield said on national TV on Monday night that as he counseled Stacy Peterson in the months before she disappeared, she told him her husband admitted killing his ex-wife Kathleen Savio.

Rev. Neil Schori, formerly of Westbrook Christian Church in Bolingbrook, said Stacy Peterson, 23, blurted out in a Bolingbrook coffee shop that "he did it," referring to her husband, Drew Peterson, 53, whose ex-wife was found dead in her bathtub in 2004. Savio's death was ruled an accidental drowning at the time, but her body recently was exhumed for a second autopsy. Those results have not been released.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peterson_11dec11,0,4382928.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

 

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BOLINGBROOK -- Stacy Peterson allegedly had a thing for the preacher saying she told him her husband killed his ex-wife.

"All I know for sure is, Stacy had a big crush on him," Drew Peterson said of the minister his wife supposedly confided in before disappearing nearly seven weeks ago.

"Every time she went to see him, she was all dolled up, all sexied up," Peterson said.

The preacher, Neil Schori, has said Stacy revealed to him Drew Peterson confessed to killing his ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, the day after she mysteriously died in March 2004. She reportedly dropped the bombshell on Schori during an August get-together in a coffee shop.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/694802,4_1_JO13_PETERSON_S1.article

 

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Has anyone seen this yet? If it's been posted, I apologize.

"Former LAPD homicide detective Mark Fuhrman has picked up on a clue, a clue that the rest of us missed. Now, this could be a very damning piece of evidence in the investigation into how Sergeant Peterson's wife number three died in the bathtub and who did it."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316707,00.html

 

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Two Hour Grilling

The adult son of Drew Peterson--a police officer himself--appeared again today before a grand jury looking into the death of Peterson's third wife and the disappearance of wife number four.

video at link

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/p...n=7&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

 

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One of Drew Peterson's adult sons appeared Thursday before a Will County special grand jury investigating the disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife and the mysterious drowning of his third wife, but declined afterward to discuss the case.

Stephen Peterson, 28, an Oak Brook police officer, arrived in uniform Thursday morning at the Will County Court Building Annex, where the grand jury meets. About three hours later, he left the building and drove off in his marked squad car.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-peterson_14dec14,0,5759190.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout