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Drew Peterson arrested in 3rd wife’s death
Indictment alleges ex-police officer caused spouse 'to inhale fluid' in 2004
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Former police officer Drew Peterson is arrested on Thursday for the murder of his third wife Kathleen Savio near his home in Bolingbrook, Illinois. He is being held on $20 million bond.
Police: 'We are confident in our case'
May 7: Authorities in Illinois answer questions about events leading to the arrest of Drew Peterson, who has been charged with the murder of his third wife.
Reality TV offer for Drew Peterson
May 6: Drew Peterson, the ex-cop who was a suspect in the disappearance of his wife, has been offered a spot on the HBO reality TV show "Cathouse," set in a Nevada brothel. MSNBC's Tamron Hall reports.
One wife dead, another missing
Nov. 13, 2007: Authorities exhume the body of Kathleen Savio almost four years after she was found dead in a bathtub. NBC's Alison Kartevold reports.
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LOCKPORT, Ill. - Drew Peterson, the former police sergeant who went on a high-profile media blitz after his fourth wife's disappearance, is due to make his first court appearance Friday in the drowning death of an ex-wife found dead in an empty bathtub in 2004.
Peterson, 55, was scheduled to be arraigned on charges of first-degree murder in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
He was arrested during an evening traffic stop Thursday near his Bolingbrook home and was held on $20 million bond, Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich said.
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"We are very confident in our case," Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said.
Savio's body was found in a dry bathtub, hair soaked in blood from a head wound, just before the couple's divorce settlement was finalized. Her death originally was ruled an accidental drowning but authorities later said it was a homicide staged to look like an accident.
The indictment alleges that "Peterson on or about Feb. 29, 2004 ... caused Kathleen Savio to inhale fluid," causing her death.
Savio's family has long voiced suspicions, saying she feared Peterson and told relatives if she died it would not be an accident. Their fears resurfaced after the October 2007 disappearance of Stacy Peterson, then 23.
Drew Peterson is a suspect in the disappearance, which police have called a possible homicide. But he has not been charged and has repeatedly said he thinks Stacy Peterson ran off with another man.
"I guess I should have returned those library books," a handcuffed Peterson said as state police led him into headquarters following his arrest, according to The (Joliet) Herald-News.
'Lock-tight alibi'
One of Peterson's attorneys, Andrew Abood, said the indictment was not a complete surprise.
"There was tremendous pressure for the government to do something in this case," Abood said Thursday evening. But Abood said one of Peterson's sons with Savio has "provided a lock-tight alibi" for his father, who faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.
In an appearance on CBS' "The Early Show" last month, 16-year-old Thomas Peterson appeared alongside his father and defended him.
"I highly do not believe that my dad had murdered my mom. Because, first off, he wasn't there, he was with us during that period of time," Thomas Peterson said on the show.
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Peterson has seemed to relish the spotlight since Stacy Peterson's disappearance, appearing in a People magazine cover story and on multiple national talk shows — most recently to tout his new engagement to a 24-year-old woman.
From the day Stacy Peterson was reported missing, her husband, a cop of nearly 30 years, knew if investigators weren't focused on him, they soon would be. And it wasn't two weeks before the Illinois State Police made it official, calling Peterson a suspect and her disappearance a possible homicide.
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When at the same time authorities announced they believed Savio's death looked like it was a homicide, Peterson knew authorities were looking closely at him as well.
"The husband is always a suspect, whether you declare him so or not," another of Peterson's attorneys, Joel Brodsky, said when authorities revealed an autopsy on Savio's exhumed body showed she was murdered.
Savio's body was found by a friend of Peterson after the police sergeant called him to say he was worried because he had not talked to or seen Savio for a few days. The couple had recently divorced.
The friend, Steve Carcerano, has said he went to the house and went upstairs while Peterson waited downstairs. When he found Savio's body in the bathtub, he called downstairs to Peterson, who has said he then ran upstairs, took Savio's pulse, but found none.
Peterson's next wife was Stacy, who was 30 years younger. They had two children, who lived with the couple along with Peterson's two children from his marriage to Savio.
On the morning of Oct. 28, 2007, Stacy Peterson talked to a friend. Stacy's sister, Cassandra Cales, tried to call her in the middle of the afternoon, and did not get through. Late that night, Cales went to Peterson's home, but neither Drew nor Stacy was there. A few minutes later, she reached Peterson on his cell phone, with Peterson telling her that Stacy had left him.
Cales didn't believe it and reported her sister missing the next day.
Pamela Bosco, a friend of Stacy's family who has acted as an unofficial family spokeswoman, said "we're just happy for the Savio family."
"We always said that Stacy and Kathleen had one thing in common ... Drew Peterson," Bosco said.
Indictment alleges ex-police officer caused spouse 'to inhale fluid' in 2004
John Smierciak / Getty Images
Former police officer Drew Peterson is arrested on Thursday for the murder of his third wife Kathleen Savio near his home in Bolingbrook, Illinois. He is being held on $20 million bond.
Police: 'We are confident in our case'
May 7: Authorities in Illinois answer questions about events leading to the arrest of Drew Peterson, who has been charged with the murder of his third wife.
Reality TV offer for Drew Peterson
May 6: Drew Peterson, the ex-cop who was a suspect in the disappearance of his wife, has been offered a spot on the HBO reality TV show "Cathouse," set in a Nevada brothel. MSNBC's Tamron Hall reports.
One wife dead, another missing
Nov. 13, 2007: Authorities exhume the body of Kathleen Savio almost four years after she was found dead in a bathtub. NBC's Alison Kartevold reports.
Police: 'We are confident in our case'
May 7: Authorities in Illinois answer questions about events leading to the arrest of Drew Peterson, who has been charged with the murder of his third wife.
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LOCKPORT, Ill. - Drew Peterson, the former police sergeant who went on a high-profile media blitz after his fourth wife's disappearance, is due to make his first court appearance Friday in the drowning death of an ex-wife found dead in an empty bathtub in 2004.
Peterson, 55, was scheduled to be arraigned on charges of first-degree murder in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
He was arrested during an evening traffic stop Thursday near his Bolingbrook home and was held on $20 million bond, Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich said.
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"We are very confident in our case," Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said.
Savio's body was found in a dry bathtub, hair soaked in blood from a head wound, just before the couple's divorce settlement was finalized. Her death originally was ruled an accidental drowning but authorities later said it was a homicide staged to look like an accident.
The indictment alleges that "Peterson on or about Feb. 29, 2004 ... caused Kathleen Savio to inhale fluid," causing her death.
Savio's family has long voiced suspicions, saying she feared Peterson and told relatives if she died it would not be an accident. Their fears resurfaced after the October 2007 disappearance of Stacy Peterson, then 23.
Drew Peterson is a suspect in the disappearance, which police have called a possible homicide. But he has not been charged and has repeatedly said he thinks Stacy Peterson ran off with another man.
"I guess I should have returned those library books," a handcuffed Peterson said as state police led him into headquarters following his arrest, according to The (Joliet) Herald-News.
'Lock-tight alibi'
One of Peterson's attorneys, Andrew Abood, said the indictment was not a complete surprise.
"There was tremendous pressure for the government to do something in this case," Abood said Thursday evening. But Abood said one of Peterson's sons with Savio has "provided a lock-tight alibi" for his father, who faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.
In an appearance on CBS' "The Early Show" last month, 16-year-old Thomas Peterson appeared alongside his father and defended him.
"I highly do not believe that my dad had murdered my mom. Because, first off, he wasn't there, he was with us during that period of time," Thomas Peterson said on the show.
Click for related content
Van Zandt: Peterson 'somewhat like O.J.'
Dateline: A case of deadly suspicion
Why did women fall for Drew Peterson?
Peterson has seemed to relish the spotlight since Stacy Peterson's disappearance, appearing in a People magazine cover story and on multiple national talk shows — most recently to tout his new engagement to a 24-year-old woman.
From the day Stacy Peterson was reported missing, her husband, a cop of nearly 30 years, knew if investigators weren't focused on him, they soon would be. And it wasn't two weeks before the Illinois State Police made it official, calling Peterson a suspect and her disappearance a possible homicide.
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When at the same time authorities announced they believed Savio's death looked like it was a homicide, Peterson knew authorities were looking closely at him as well.
"The husband is always a suspect, whether you declare him so or not," another of Peterson's attorneys, Joel Brodsky, said when authorities revealed an autopsy on Savio's exhumed body showed she was murdered.
Savio's body was found by a friend of Peterson after the police sergeant called him to say he was worried because he had not talked to or seen Savio for a few days. The couple had recently divorced.
The friend, Steve Carcerano, has said he went to the house and went upstairs while Peterson waited downstairs. When he found Savio's body in the bathtub, he called downstairs to Peterson, who has said he then ran upstairs, took Savio's pulse, but found none.
Peterson's next wife was Stacy, who was 30 years younger. They had two children, who lived with the couple along with Peterson's two children from his marriage to Savio.
On the morning of Oct. 28, 2007, Stacy Peterson talked to a friend. Stacy's sister, Cassandra Cales, tried to call her in the middle of the afternoon, and did not get through. Late that night, Cales went to Peterson's home, but neither Drew nor Stacy was there. A few minutes later, she reached Peterson on his cell phone, with Peterson telling her that Stacy had left him.
Cales didn't believe it and reported her sister missing the next day.
Pamela Bosco, a friend of Stacy's family who has acted as an unofficial family spokeswoman, said "we're just happy for the Savio family."
"We always said that Stacy and Kathleen had one thing in common ... Drew Peterson," Bosco said.
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