Wife-Killer Drew Peterson Tried to Put Hit on Prosecutor Who Put Him Away

Disgraced Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson tried to put a hit on the prosecutor who put him in prison, highly placed sources confirmed today.

Now Peterson—the state’s most famous wife-killer—faces a new felony case. He is scheduled to appear in Randolph County court this afternoon on a charge of solicitation of murder.

Peterson attempted to put a hit on Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed. Glasgow’s spokesman, Charles B. Pelkie, declined to comment on the matter and referred calls to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. The attorney general’s press office did not immediately return a call for comment.

Peterson, 61, was found guilty in September 2012 of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Savio, 40,turned up drowned in a dry bathtub in March 2004. She and Peterson, a Bolingbrook police sergeant, were in the midst of a contentious divorce when she mysteriously happened to die, but investigators from the Illinois State Police found nothing suspicious about the matter and quickly decided Savio was merely an unlucky victim of a freak bathtub accident.

The demise of Peterson and Savio’s marriage was hastened when he was caught having an affair with a teenage girl from Romeoville, Stacy Cales. Peterson got Cales pregnant while he was still married to Savio, and they were able to dissolve their marriage without finalizing the financial issues in their divorce case.

Peterson and Cales then wed, and Peterson and his new bride, Mrs. Stacy Peterson, moved into a house on Pheasant Chase Court, just down the block from Savio’s home.

Savio’s death was quickly forgotten but leapt into the national consciousness when Stacy Peterson vanished in October 2007. The police named Drew Peterson a suspect in her “potential homicide” but never got around to charging him with harming her.

In May 2009 the police did charge Peterson with murdering Savio. He remained locked up in the Will County jail until he was shipped to prison in February 2013. Peterson insisted throughout that he did not kill Savio. He is currently appealing his murder conviction.

Peterson’s attorney, Steve Greenberg, did not immediately return a call for comment.

Go take a look at our Facebook page

Get Patch news alerts

ALSO ON PATCH

• Woman Shovels Out of Snowbound Home To Get To Her Kidney Transplant

• U.S. Little League Champ Should be Stripped of Title for Cheating: Las Vegas Coach

• Desecrated Graves, Mass Burial Mound in Grisly Cemetery Ripoff Scheme