Drew Peterson Moved to Federal Prison For Being 'Threat to Safety'

Weeks after he was suddenly moved from downstate Menard Correctional Center, the Illinois Department of Corrections revealed its reason for transferring disgraced Bolingbrook police sergeant and convicted murderer Drew Peterson to a federal prison in Indiana.

IDOC said a transfer was requested because staff saw Peterson as a "threat to safety and security of the department," WGN reported.

Last month, IDOC spokeswoman Nicole Wilson said Peterson was “transferred under the terms of the Interstate Compact Agreement." He was taken to the Northern Illinois Reception Center at Stateville before being moved to a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Peterson, 63, had been locked up in maximum security Menard since February 2013 for the 2004 murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson was sentenced to 38 years for Savio's death and got another 40 years tacked on when he was convicted of conspiring to order a hit on Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow.

Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished in October 2007. She remains missing.
The Illinois State Police named Peterson a suspect in Stacy's "potential homicide" but have yet to actually charge him with harming her.

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