SHOCK AUDIO: Laughing Drew Peterson Calls Into Mancow Radio Show
Posted on May 27, 2009 @ 03:19PM - Add a comment
Drew Peterson just sunk to a new low.
The infamous former Illinois police sergeant --accused of drowning his third wife Kathleen Savio --called into Mancow's radio show in Chicago Wednesday and through much of the interview, joked about being behind bars.
Peterson called the show collect from the jail in Joliet, saying "Yeah, what's up."
Mancow asked Peterson about his love life behind bars. Peterson -- laughing -- said: "I've got alot of buddies who are anxious to wash my back in the showers."
He also the guards were treating him well and called them "professional."
For one moment, the interview turned serious when Peterson talked about being kept in isolation . He called it "lonely" and said he does gets to watch television and read a book every now and then, but that's it.
The serious moment proved fleeting as Mancow said that Peterson's attorneys said that he would be doing a comedy routine for them. Peterson then lauched into a series of so-called jokes.
When Mancow asked how he could be joking, Peterson said he uses humor to deal with being in jail. He also said he reads the Bible and prays all the time.
Peterson is being held on a $20 million dollar bail. In addition to being charged with first degree murder, he is also considered a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife Stacy, who vanished in 2007.
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No Bail Reduction for Drew Peterson
Posted on May 22, 2009 @ 06:22PM - Add a comment
Assistant D.A. John Connelly successfully argued in an Illinois court today that accused killer Drew Peterson’s $20 million bail should not be reduced, AP is reporting.
The decision means that the ex-cop will remain behind bars while the case against him in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, proceeds.
ADA Connelly also revealed that he would be presenting evidence that Peterson had offered a would-be hit man $25,000 to kill Savio.
She was found dead in the bath tub in the couple’s Chicago-area home in 2004.
Her death was ruled a suicide at the time but following the disappearance of Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy, in 2007, her remains were exhumed for a new autopsy.
The results of that forensic examination changed the cause of death to “homicide” and led to the eventual murder charges against her spouse.
Stacy Peterson is still missing but skeletal remains found in a barrel found in a nearby are being examined.
“I know he killed Stacy,” Drew’s stepbrother Thomas Morphey told Good Morning America.
Judge Changed in Peterson Murder Case
Posted on May 21, 2009 @ 03:38PM - Add a comment
A new judge was today appointed in the Drew Peterson murder case.
Will County Chief Judge Gerald Kinney let prosecutors replace the existing judge because the defense had not established a pattern of abuse by the state of its right to replace judges.
“I do not find that this has been established by the defense’s response,” Kinney said at a hearing at Will County courthouse.
Prosecutors had filed a motion to replace Judge Richard Schoenstedt claiming that he was prejudiced against the state. Kinney assigned the case to Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes – to which Peterson’s lawyer Joel Brodsky protested before finally accepting the decision. A hearing with the new judge is now scheduled for Friday, May 22, 2009, at 1pm.
Peterson is in jail for the 2004 death of his previous wife, Kathleen Savio, the former policeman has pled not guilty. Authorities are planning to carry-out DNA testing on an unidentified female body which they believe may be Peterson’s fourth wife Stacy Peterson who has been missing for the past two years.
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Has Stacy Peterson Been Found?
Posted on May 21, 2009 @ 04:33AM - Add a comment
A barge crew discovered the remains of what is described as a “smallish female” wearing underwear in the Des Plaines River. A source told the Joliet (Ill.) Herald News that DNA testing will likely be needed to identify the body. Relatives of Stacy Peterson, who lived in nearby Bolingbrook, Ill., have been contacted by state police regarding the discovery. Stacy was the fourth wife of ex-Bolingbrook cop, Drew Peterson, who remains in custody on charges that he killed his third wife Kathleen Savio. Stacy has been missing since Oct. 28, 2007.
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NEW INFORMATION: Money A Motive for Drew Peterson?
Posted on May 15, 2009 @ 03:18PM - Add a comment
Murder suspect Drew Peterson stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars if his former wife Kathleen Savio had lived, it has been revealed. Just a few days before Savio’s body was found in a bathtub at their Bolingbrook home the former cop’s attorney had told him he was to be subpoenaed in their messy divorce battle. He stood to lose a six-figure sum from the sale of their home plus his Sud’s pub in Montgomery.
Drew Peterson's Mug Shot; New Details Of His Arrest
Posted on May 08, 2009 @ 01:40PM - Add a comment
Suspected wife-killer Drew Peterson could finally be convicted using evidence from his dead wife, according to the prosecutor trying to put America’s most hated man behind bars.
Peterson -- a former police sergeant from suburban Chicago, IL -- was arrested Thursday and charged with murdering his third wife Kathleen Savio, who was found drowned in an empty bathtub in 2004.
At the time, Savio's death was ruled an accident. But following the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, in October of 2007 , police exhumed Savio’s body for forensic examinations.
After examining forensic evidence , Illinois State Attorney James Glasgow believes that Savio’s murder was a homicide staged to look like an accident.
Following her exhumation, a pathologist also ruled that Savio – who had made multiple calls to police claiming Peterson had beat her – had died as the result of a homicide.
Glasgow says prosecutors working on the case would also seek statements made by Savio herself, essentially allowing her to ‘testify from beyond the grave’.
He added: “We moved when we felt the time was appropriate, and we're very confident in our case.”
Stacy Peterson hasn't been seen since she vanished in 2007. Drew Peterson has repeatedly claims she left him for another man. Stacy's family fears she is dead, and that her body will never be found.
Rev. Neil Schori, a Pastor at Stacy's church, claimed that Stacy had told him that Peterson killed Savio, and had made it look like an accident while forcing her to give him an alibi.
He was married to his first wife, Carol Brown, from 1974 to 1980, but she divorced him after claiming that he had cheated on her.
Peterson’s second wife, Vicki Connolly, also alleged a history of violence against her during their 10 year marriage.
Since being linked with the disappearance of his wives the ex-cop has flaunted his freedom with absurd stunts involving dating contests, Nevada brothels and TV appearances with his new 24-year-old fiancee Christina Raines.
Slain Woman's Sister Calls Drew Peterson "An Idiot"
Posted on May 08, 2009 @ 11:38AM - Add a comment
The sister of Kathleen Savio says Drew Peterson --a former police sergeant from suburban Chicago -- is "an idiot" for allegedly cracking jokes during his arrest Thursday for allegedly killing Kathleen, his third wife .
Peterson reportedly said while being cuffed : "I guess I should have returned those library books."
