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Cops Accused of Protecting Peterson

Fellow cop never charged in 18 domestic disturbance calls

(Newser) - In the two years before Kathleen Savio was found dead in a bathtub, local police responded to 18 domestic disturbance calls at the suburban Chicago house she shared with policeman husband Drew Peterson, AP reports. Charges were filed twice—against her. Her death is now suspected to be murder and the town's residents wonder if  their cops protected one of their own. More »

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Stacy Told 3 Drew Had Killed Ex

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 »

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Relative Fears He Helped Peterson Dump Wife's Body

Helped ex-cop move
a 'warm' container

(Newser) - On the night of his wife's disappearance, a male relative of Drew Peterson says he helped the ex-police officer move a large, heavy, sealed container that felt warm to the touch, sources close to the case have told the Chicago Tribune . The man was so distraught afterwards, fearing he aided in disposing of Stacy Peterson's body, that he attempted suicide, the sources said. More »

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Peterson Lawyer Hails FBI Joining in Wife Search

Hopes it will end 'witch hunt' against his client

(Newser) - Drew Peterson’s lawyer praised the arrival of FBI assistance in the search for Stacy Peterson, the ex-Chicago police sergeant’s missing fourth wife. "My hope is that this will move from the witch hunt that it has become and go back to a missing person case," Peterson’s lawyer told the Chicago Tribune . More »

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Peterson Sightings Questioned

Family, experts doubt anonymous tips will lead to missing mom 

(Newser) - Friends and family members are skeptical about supposed sightings of missing Illinois mom Stacy Peterson around the country, reports the Chicago Tribune . Husband Drew Peterson claims to have an unsigned letter, which he turned over to police yesterday, saying she was seen in a Peoria grocery store, and a tip line has had a call saying she was spotted in Florida. Doubts were quickly cast on both sightings.  More »

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Peterson Disputes New Autopsy

Doc was biased, lawyer says in contentious Today interview

(Newser) - The doctor who concluded that Drew Peterson's third wife was murdered was a paid Fox commentator with a pre-existing opinion, and his findings were a "self-fulfilling prophecy," Peterson's lawyer told the Today show. Peterson himself sat largely silent during the interview, permitted by his handler to answer only a few questions, reports the Chicago Tribune. More »

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Peterson Was 'Doting,' First Wife Says

But murder suspect also had a controlling side, cheated

(Newser) - The first wife of Drew Peterson says her ex was "doting and supportive" during their 6-year marriage in the late '70s ? but with a controlling side, reports the Chicago Tribune. The husband Carol Brown describes contrasts with the portrait of a violent, manipulative man now suspected in the murder of his third wife and the disappearance of his fourth wife. More »

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Ex-Cop's 3rd Wife Murdered,
Expert Says

Case re-examined
after Peterson's fourth wife disappears

(Newser) - Drew Peterson's third wife was murdered and did not accidentally drown in the bathtub as originally thought, a pathologist says. Bruises on the body of Kathleen Savio suggest she was beaten to death in 2004, the Chicago Tribune reports. The autopsy took place after  police named Peterson, a former Chicago cop, a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife. More »

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Peterson Threatened My Life: 2nd Wife

Spouse of 10 years says ex-cop 'had a disease to his ego'

(Newser) - Drew Peterson's second wife says the ex-cop under suspicion in the disappearance of his current wife threatened to kill her and make it look like an accident, the Chicago Tribune reports. Vicki Connolly says of suspicions that Drew Peterson might have killed his foutth wife, Stacy Peterson, "He has the experience, the knowledge, the means, and the mind to do that." More »

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