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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Drew Peterson in 2007, shortly after the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, was ruled a homicide.<\/em><\/div>\nBorn on Jan. 5, 1954, Drew Walter Peterson lived the first part of his life on the straight and narrow. He joined the military after graduating high school in 1972, married his high school girlfriend, Carol Hamilton, and in 1977, joined the police force in Bolingbrook, Illinois.<\/p>\n
But although Drew and Hamilton were married for six years, all was not well in their relationship. Hamilton later told the\u00a0Chicago Tribune<\/em>\u00a0that Drew had never been abusive or controlling toward her but he had cheated on her while she was pregnant with one of their two sons.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought he always had respect for me, but I guess when you stray in a relationship, you don\u2019t have respect for the person that you were doing that to,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Drew and Hamilton divorced in 1980, and Drew quickly rebounded with 20-year-old Kyle Piry, to whom he was briefly engaged. Piry later told\u00a0TODAY\u00a0that her ex-fianc\u00e9e was not abusive toward her either, but that he could be controlling. He always wanted to know where she was going and who she was seeing, and he sometimes followed her.<\/p>\n \u201cI decided there were too many things that just made me really uncomfortable,\u201d Piry said of ending their engagement. \u201cThere were little things that just made you think, \u2018Hmmm, something\u2019s wrong here.’\u201d<\/p>\n Next, in 1982, Drew Peterson married Vicki Connolly. Unlike Hamilton and Piry, however, Connolly claims that Peterson was violent toward her during the course of their nine-and-a-half-year marriage.<\/p>\n Once, Connolly said, according to\u00a0InTouch Weekly<\/em>, \u201cHe put me up against the wall in the garage and grabbed me by the throat.\u201d Another time, \u201cHe told me he would kill me and make it look like an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n As their marriage soured, Peterson went on a blind date with an accountant named Kathleen Savio. Six months later, Peterson divorced Connolly and proposed to Savio, who accepted. They married in 1992, had two sons, and co-owned a tavern.<\/p>\n But their marriage had its problems. Savio\u2019s sisters suspected that Peterson physically abused her and, in 2001, Savio found a note in their mailbox alleging that her husband had started an affair with a 17-year-old. They subsequently separated, and two years later, Peterson married the woman he\u2019d been cheating with, Stacy Peterson.<\/p>\n All the while, as their divorce proceedings turned ugly, Kathleen Savio begin to fear for her life.<\/p>\n As their marriage had ended, Drew Peterson and Kathleen Savio\u2019s divorce turned bitter. Savio reportedly wanted to fight for what she believed she was owed for 11 years of marriage.<\/p>\n But as Peterson and Savio clashed over custody agreements and splitting the revenue from their bar, Savio began to worry that her ex would hurt her. \u201cHe\u2019s gonna kill me and it\u2019s gonna look like an accident,\u201d Savio allegedly told her sister, Sue Doman.<\/p>\n On March 11, 2002, Savio filed for an emergency order of protection against her husband. According to\u00a0Chicago Magazine<\/em>, Peterson had threatened her on the phone and run after her. \u201c[Drew] wants me dead,\u201d she wrote in the report, which was later dropped. \u201c[A]nd if he has to he will burn the house down just to shut me up.\u201d<\/p>\n About four months later, on July 5, Savio alleged that Peterson had come to her home and threatened her. \u201cHe asked her if she was afraid and she told him she was,\u201d the police report about the incident stated, per\u00a0Chicago Magazine<\/em>. \u201cShe finally told him to go or do what he came for, kill her. He said, OK, where do you want it. She told him in the head. He took out his knife but then said he could not hurt her.\u201d<\/p>\n The report also noted, however, that Peterson claimed that they\u2019d merely talked and that Savio had tried to seduce him. In the end, nothing came out of it.<\/p>\n That November, Savio also wrote to the assistant state\u2019s attorney. She described a number of altercations with Peterson and wrote, \u201cHe knows how to manipulate the system, and his next step is to take my children away. Or kill me instead \u2026 I haven\u2019t received help from the Police here in Bolingbrook, and [am] asking for your help now. Before it\u2019s to late [sic] \u2026 Please return my call, or write with answers to my questions.\u201d<\/p>\n Then, on March 1, 2004, Kathleen Savio was found dead in her bathtub with a one-inch cut on the back of her head. Though the tub was dry, her hair was wet. A subsequent coroner\u2019s jury determined that Savio had died from accidental drowning.<\/p>\n In any case, the ex-husband that she had so feared had an alibi. His new wife, Stacy, claimed that he had been with her. And the story of Kathleen Savio\u2019s death might have ended there \u2014 except that Stacy Peterson went missing in 2007.<\/p>\n On Oct. 28, 2007, Stacy Ann Peterson disappeared. Drew Peterson claimed that he\u2019d woken up at 11 a.m. that day and she was simply gone. He later said that he\u2019d spoken to her at 9 p.m. that night and that she\u2019d told him she was leaving him. \u201cI believe she\u2019s with someone else,\u201d Peterson told the\u00a0Chicago Tribune<\/em>, \u201cbut I believe she\u2019s safe.\u201d<\/p>\n Her disappearance, however, rang alarm bells for investigators working his ex wife\u2019s case. \u201cThere are some unusual circumstances in the 2004 case,\u201d Illinois State\u2019s Attorney James Glasgow\u00a0told reporters\u00a0on Oct. 31, 2007, noting that his office was taking another look at Savio\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Two weeks later, investigators labeled Stacy Peterson\u2019s disappearance as a \u201cpotential homicide.\u201d They also exhumed Kathleen Savio\u2019s body to reexamine her remains. And, this time, her death didn\u2019t look so accidental.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m convinced she was the victim of a murder,\u201d former New York City chief medical examiner Michael Baden told the Associated Press after examining Savio\u2019s body. He determined that Savio had been killed after a struggle and then placed in the bathtub. \u201c\u2018Who done it\u2019 is up to the police to resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n To the chagrin of the victims\u2019 families, Drew Peterson seemed to relish the media attention. Seemingly unconcerned about his wife\u2019s whereabouts, he quipped on the Today Show in February 2008, \u201cI\u2019m not trying to be funny here, but Stacy Peterson would ask me for a divorce \u2026 on a regular basis, and it was based on her menstrual cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n He also struck up a new relationship, this time with Christina Raines. According to Raines, who left him in 2009, Drew talked about how he could easily \u201csnap\u201d someone\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n But in 2009, Drew Peterson stopped laughing. On May 7, he was arrested and indicted for Kathleen Savio\u2019s murder. Three years later, he was found guilty. At his sentencing in February 2013, Peterson shouted, \u201cI did not kill Kathleen!\u201d Her sister, Susan Doman, shouted back, \u201cYes you did! You liar!\u201d<\/p>\n Drew Peterson was then sentenced to 38 years in prison.<\/p>\n Drew Peterson during a 2021 interview with\u00a0Dateline<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Even behind bars, Drew Peterson has had an eventful couple of years. He fought against his conviction and tried to have the prosecuting attorney in his case, James Glasgow, killed.<\/p>\n \u201cSo how long before you think your uncle can take care of business?\u201d Peterson asked a fellow inmate who recorded their conversation. When the informant replied that the hit would be done by Christmas, Peterson responded: \u201cIt\u2019d be a nice Christmas present.\u201d<\/p>\n As a result, he was sentenced to an additional 40 years behind bars.<\/p>\n Peterson has continued to maintain his innocence in the death of Kathleen Savio and the disappearance of Stacy Peterson. In November 2021, he sat down for an interview with\u00a0Dateline<\/em>\u00a0and insisted that he hadn\u2019t hurt either woman.<\/p>\n \u201cThe prosecution is making up facts,\u201d he told Natalie Morales. \u201cThe prosecution staged a prosecution with Kathy. They took an accident and staged a prosecution. Everybody\u2019s twisting it to make me look bad, okay? They\u2019re twisting it to make their prosecution or what they\u2019re trying to say against me work.\u201d<\/p>\n When Morales asked Drew what kind of husband he\u2019d been he responded, \u201cI was a loving husband, okay? I was, what can I say? I was a good husband, a good provider.\u201d<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t change the fact that one of Drew Peterson\u2019s wives is dead and another is missing. Though Stacy Peterson hasn\u2019t been seen since 2008, her family maintains hope that her remains will be found.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not a 9-to-5 (job) to me,\u201d her sister Cassandra Cales told the\u00a0Chicago Tribute<\/em>\u00a0after urging police to search a local canal. \u201cThis is, like, 24 hours a day. I don\u2019t not think about my sister.\u201d<\/p>\n When Drew Peterson’s ex-wife Kathleen Savio turned up dead in 2004, it was ruled an accident \u2014 then his fourth wife Stacy Peterson vanished three years later. For years, Kathleen Savio told anyone who would listen that her ex-husband, Drew Peterson, might hurt her. Tragically, when she turned up dead in a bathtub in 2004, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-true-crime","tag-true-crime"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Tragic Death Of Kathleen Savio<\/h2>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kathleen Savio\u2019s death was initially ruled an accident, but Drew Peterson was later found guilty of murdering her.<\/em><\/div>\nThe Disappearance Of Stacy Peterson<\/h2>\n
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Drew and Stacy Peterson.<\/em><\/div>\nWhere Is Drew Peterson Now?<\/h2>\n
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