New Autopsy: Peterson's 3rd Wife Murdered

Peterson bragged of getting away with murder

(NEWSER) - Before her disappearance, Stacy Peterson revealed to three people, including a clergyman, that her husband had bragged of killing his ex-wife and making it look like an accident, a source tells the Chicago Sun-Times. Drew Peterson, now a suspect in his fourth wife’s disappearance, was already living with a pregnant Stacy in 2004 when Kathleen Savio’s body was discovered in an empty bathtub. 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»

Ex-cop risked losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in split

(NEWSER) - Drew Peterson prosecutors are scrutinizing his divorce from Kathleen Savio as they ready their murder case against him, the Chicago Tribune reports. Peterson could have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the pair’s split—but Savio was found dead in a bathtub one month before the trial that would distribute the couples’ holdings, leaving nearly everything in Peterson’s hands, the Tribune notes. More»