Drew Peterson

Drew Walter Peterson (born January 5, 1954) is a retired Bolingbrook, Illinois, police sergeant and murderer. He first received national publicity in 2007 when his fourth wife, Stacy Ann Cales Peterson, disappeared; although law enforcement and the public suspected foul play, she has never been found, and Peterson has not been charged in her case. Suspicions in Stacy Peterson's case were fueled in part by the untimely death three years prior of Drew Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, a few months after her divorce from Drew. Savio was found dead in a dry bathtub in her home in 2004, with extensive bruises and a large gash in her scalp, now believed to be a stab wound. Her official cause of death was found to be accidental drowning. In 2009, Peterson was indicted for Savio's murder after a second autopsy showed evidence of a struggle. He was convicted in 2012 and received a prison sentence of 38 years on February 21, 2013. On February 9, 2015, Peterson was charged with two additional felonies, solicitation of murder and solicitation of murder for hire, for attempting to have Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow killed. He was convicted on May 31, 2016, and sentenced to an additional 40 years on July 29, 2016, further sealing his fate of lifetime imprisonment. On February 21, 2017 Peterson was transferred from Illinois Department of Corrections custody to a federal facility in Terre Haute, IN. On March 29, 2017, Peterson was reportedly attacked by another inmate with a food tray in the dining area and separated from general population afterward