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    Cop suspected in wife's disappearance

    Cop suspected in wife's disappearance
    By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer
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    JOLIET, Ill. - Authorities probing the disappearance of a police officer's wife said Friday he is now considered a suspect in a potential homicide investigation, and that the death of an ex-wife three years ago appeared to have been staged as an accidental drowning.

    Authorities received court approval to exhume the body of an ex-wife of Bolingbrook Sgt. Drew Peterson as they continued the search for his wife, Stacy, who was last seen Oct. 29.

    Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich said Peterson, 53, has moved from being a person of interest in the disappearance of his 23-year-old wife to "clearly being a suspect."

    Dobrich also said the case was now a potential homicide investigation. "We have mixed emotions right now," said Pamela Bosco, Stacy Peterson's adoptive stepmother. "We're sad, but we needed to move on, and this is something we've needed to hear for a long time."

    Peterson has said Stacy Peterson phoned him and told him she had left him for another man. His attorney, Fred Morelli, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

    The family of Stacy Peterson, who was studying nursing at a nearby junior college, has said she feared her husband, was making plans to divorce him and would not have willingly left her children, ages 2 and 4.

    The body of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found in the bathtub in 2004, her hair soaked in blood from a head wound. A coroner's jury ruled the 40-year-old's death was an accidental drowning, even though there was no water in the bathtub. Investigators had theorized the water had drained out.

    In a petition filed Friday listing the reasons authorities want to exhume Savio's body, prosecutors said a review of evidence in the case "is consistent with the 'staging' of an accident to conceal a homicide." "The one-inch gash in the back of Kathleen Savio's head did not render her unconscious, which would have been necessary for her to accidentally drown in the bathtub," the petition stated.

    Prosecutors said they reviewed photographs of the crime scene and autopsy, the autopsy protocol and police reports.

    Will County Circuit Court Judge Daniel J. Rozak signed the petition granting the exhumation Friday. It was not immediately clear when the body would be exhumed.

    No charges were filed in Savio's death, but "at the very least, her death should have been ruled 'undetermined,'" Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil said earlier this week.

    Savio's niece, Melissa Marie Doman, said relatives have long suspected that Savio didn't drown accidentally. "I am all for it, along with the rest of my family, because something just was never right," said Doman. "I can't really say who, but someone did something. I don't think it was an accident."

    Savio had gotten an order of protection in 2002, alleging a pattern of physical abuse and threats, according to court records. Drew Peterson has denied involvement with his ex-wife's death.

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    It took them long enough. They are also exhuming wife number 3s body for another look. Seems suspicious to drown in a dry bathtub with no drugs in your body.

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    I heard he was trying to say she ran off with a man and left her kids behind. But her family doesn't believe it, they say her kids were her life. I believe he did something to her.

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    He totally had something to do with this one & had something to do w/ the death of his 3rd!!!!!!
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    Death of ex-cop's wife called a homicide
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    JOLIET, Ill. - A nationally known pathologist has examined the remains of a former police officer's third wife at her family's request and determined her death was a homicide, according to a published report.
    Former New York City chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden examined Kathleen Savio's remains on Friday and determined that she died after a struggle and her body was then placed in the bathtub where she was later found, Savio's family told WFLD-TV.

    "She was beat up and placed in the bathtub as a cover-up for whoever done this," Sue Savio Doman, Savio's sister, told the Fox affiliate........


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    The fact that this autopsy showed her to have been in quite a battle, I am wondering if the police department had helped one of their own get away with this crime. They had said she had a gash on her head and her hair was all bloody. I am sure that crime scene photos had been taken, so why no question about these bruises and such at the time.

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    Neighbor: Friend moved Peterson's body
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    BOLINGBROOK, Ill. - Former police officer Drew Peterson paid a relative to help him move a large container from a bedroom on the day Peterson's wife vanished, according to a friend of the relative.

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    Walter Martineck said on NBC's "Today" Friday and in an interview with the Chicago Tribune that on the day the rectanglar container was moved, his friend Thomas Morphey told him he thought Stacy Peterson's body was inside it because the container was warm.

    "He was real frantic. I could tell he'd been drinking a little," said Martineck, who said he has known Morphey for 19 years. "He put his hands on my shoulders and says, 'You can't tell no one. I know she was in there.'"

    Martineck also said Morphey, who is Peterson's stepbrother, tried to give him the money that Peterson paid him, but said he refused it and did not know how much it totaled.

    Martineck's account follows reports confirmed by Bolingbrook police that Morphey tried to commit suicide Oct. 29, the day after Stacy Peterson disappeared. He did so because "he was just afraid of his family's life," Martineck told NBC.

    Peterson has been named a suspect in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, his fourth wife, by the Illinois State Police, which has said it is investigating the case as a possible homicide. Authorities are also investigating the death of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, and have said they believe her drowning death was a murder staged to look like an accident. Peterson has not been named a suspect in Savio's death.

    Peterson has denied any involvement in his wife's disappearance and has said he believes she ran off with another man and is alive. He has also said he and Morphey never moved any container. Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, has said Morphey has a history of mental problems.

    Meanwhile, volunteers said they will resume the search for Stacy Peterson Saturday, and it will become a combined search for Peterson and Lisa Stebic, who disappeared from nearby Plainfield in April.

    "Any of these places (that volunteers are searching for Peterson) would be relevant to the search for Lisa," said Melanie Greenberg, Stebic's cousin. "I hope one of our families gets closure and resolution."

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    I heard on CNN that the wife that is missing now told a priest that her husband had told her he killed the wife that was found in the tub. I think they said the priest came forward with that.

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    Drew Peterson asks public for money
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    CHICAGO - A former police officer suspected in his wife's disappearance has set up a Web site to ask for financial help with his legal defense.

    Drew Peterson's site says he wants to collect money from people who believe he deserves a defense without going broke.

    "For the cost of a few cups of your morning coffee, you can help to ensure that Drew can afford to support his ongoing legal defense, find his missing wife, and divert any remaining funds into a trust for his children," the site says.

    Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, said Tuesday any money collected on DefendDrew.com will go into a trust account over which Peterson will have no control.

    Brodsky said it will be used first to pay for legal fees and then to hire a private investigator to look for 23-year-old Stacy Peterson, who vanished in late October. Any remaining money will be put into a trust for Peterson's four dependent children, the Web site says.

    Peterson, 53, a longtime member of the Bolingbrook Police Department until he quit after his wife disappeared, has denied any involvement in her disappearance. He has said he believes his wife left him for another man and is alive.

    A spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's family, Pamela Bosco, said she was shocked to learn about the plea for money. She said the funding priorities should be rearranged to hire a private investigator first.

    "His best defense is to find Stacy," Bosco said. "Let's put that as a priority, Drew."

    The site, which collects money through PayPal, appeals for sympathy for Peterson and his children, who "may end up impoverished" by the cost of mounting a defense. The site says "media sensationalism" surrounding the story has caused the family hardship and stresses Peterson's years of public service as a police officer.

    The investigation of the disappearance also has prompted the exhumation of the body of Drew Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio. Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow has said after examining evidence he believes Savio's death was a homicide staged to look like an accident. Results of the new autopsy have not been released.

    Peterson has not been named a suspect in Savio's death.

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    absolutely freaking ridiculous
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    Brodsky said it will be used first to pay for legal fees and then to hire a private investigator to look for 23-year-old Stacy Peterson, who vanished in late October. Any remaining money will be put into a trust for Peterson's four dependent children, the Web site says.
    Note the priorities : protect myself - then look for my wife - then ( if there is anything left over ) provide for my children.

    If he truly beleived that she was alive, he would be concentrating on finding HER because that would effectively make the whole "murder issue" go away.
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