Murder: Drew Peterson Third Wife's Death Ruled a Homicide
By Jon Shanks
Nov 17, 2007
Drew Peterson's fourth wife is still missing. Stacy Peterson, 23, has been missing since late October. The body of his third wife, who died in 2004 under mysterious circumstances, was exhumed earlier this week. Amazingly this guy spoke out again Thursday night to "America's Most Wanted," saying he is angry at his missing fourth wife, Stacy, whose disappearance has generated a media frenzy and mounting suspicion that he is involved.
Murder: Drew Peterson Third Wife's Death Ruled a Homicide
"I hope she exposes herself to be alive and well," Peterson said on the TV show. Cops have named him as a suspect in her disappearance but he maintains that she has ran off with another man and despite a ton of publicity remains in hiding. A new development in an earlier case may bring even more problems to the Chicago area cop.
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His third wife, a woman named Kathleen Savio was found dead in a bathtub and at the time her death was ruled accidental. ABC News reports that during Peterson's marriage to Savio, police responded to at least five domestic violence calls at their home. "Drew grabbed her and put a knife to her throat and he threatened to kill her," Savio's sister Sue Doman told "Good Morning America" Thursday. "She told me that she feared for her life."
Now questions are being asked as exactly why cops didn't make more of an effort to find out exactly what happened to the woman and why they were so quick to rule her deat as an accident.
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ABC has an article published with a screaming headline "Did Police Officers Protect Drew Peterson? The Associated Press is reporting on Saturday that Former New York City chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden analyzed Kathleen Savio's remains and concluded she died after a struggle, and her body was placed in the bathtub where she was found, Baden said Saturday.
"I don't think there's any possibility this was an accident, and I don't think there's any indication this was suicide," he told Fox News, which flew him to Chicago so he could examine the remains Friday with the family's consent. Results of a separate, official autopsy will not be available for several days, authorities said.
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Keep this in mind, though authorities are re-examining the circumstances of Savio's death, Drew Peterson has not been named a suspect.
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