Stacy Called Kathleen's Divorce Lawyer

Family to file wrongful death action as judge cites murder findings

(NEWSER) - A judge yesterday replaced the executors for the estate of murder suspect Drew Peterson's third wife, paving the way for a wrongful death suit against the ex-cop. The judge cited recent autopsy findings saying Kathleen Savio was murdered. Her family now plans to file a wrongful death suit within weeks, their attorney told the Chicago Tribune. More»

TMZ says Drew spilled the beans to a fellow inmate

(NEWSER) - In what might be the mother of all jailhouse confessions, TMZ is reporting that Drew Peterson blabbed to a fellow inmate how he killed missing wife Stacy Peterson, and who his accomplice was. The inmate allegedly told cops, who tracked down the accomplice, who took them to private hunting grounds outside Peoria, where he said the body was buried in a metal drum. Cops stuck prongs in the ground, TMZ notes, and have found something that could be a metal drum. They're expected to begin digging this morning. More»

Hearsay evidence allowed in Drew Peterson murder hearing

(USER SUBMITTED) - Drew Peterson, the Illinois cop accused of killing one of his wives and suspected in the disappearance of another, gets to hear from his dead third wife today in an evidentiary hearing, reports the AP . An Illinois judge will be evaluating hearsay evidence from the wife he is accused of murdering, Kathleen Savio, who told friends and family that if she turned up dead, it was likely her husband who did it. Her body was found in a dry bathtub. More»

(NEWSER) - Drew Peterson attempted to pay someone $25,000 to kill his third wife in 2003, a year before she was found drowned in her bathtub, prosecutors alleged today. The disgraced former cop, who has been charged with murdering Kathleen Savio himself, tried and failed today to have his $20 million bail reduced, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. More»

Focus on murder suspect's wife, another missing woman

(NEWSER) - Drew Peterson’s infamously bad luck might have just gotten worse: Authorities uncovered a decomposing woman’s body and a mysterious blue barrel near his Illinois home yesterday. If the woman turns to be his fourth wife, Stacy, it could undermine his claim she fled with another man. But the body could also be that of another local woman who vanished in 2007, ABC News reports. More»