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 31 
 on: August 20, 2008, 02:02:22 pm 
Started by HeDidIt - Last post by chiefgirl
Wow, that's a bunch of information that I had never heard before. I saddens and sickens me so much at the same time.
I am greatful for the time you took to post all that HeDidIt. Thank you.
I also find it so interesting that Kathy and Stacy were both going to Joliet Junior College for nursing programs.
Maybe he pushed them to get into it.

That way they could take care of him when he's older.

 32 
 on: August 20, 2008, 01:28:59 pm 
Started by Ashley - Last post by chiefgirl
Seems to me that Chuckles is sorry. He's even asking God's forgiveness. He's taking responsibility.
He's just adding first hand knowledge the Joel is a worthless piece of crap. THanks Chuckles! Smiley

 33 
 on: August 18, 2008, 04:17:30 pm 
Started by HeDidIt - Last post by HeDidIt
http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/1113543,will081808.article

Group cites Peterson, Savio case as need for appointed medical examiner
Board denies the group's effort to get referendum on Nov. ballot


August 18, 2008Recommend

BY DAN ROZEK Staff Reporter
Friends and relatives of Stacy Peterson pushed for the referendum, but Will County board members today rejected a proposal to ask voters if they favor replacing the elected coroner with an appointed medical examiner.

Board members voted 14-12 against putting a referendum question on the November ballot that would seek voters’ approval to abolish the coroner’s office now held by Democrat Patrick O’Neil and replace him with a professional medical examiner.

But the debate quickly became entwined in the notorious 2007 disappearance of the Bolingbrook woman, whose husband, Drew Peterson, has been named a suspect by police--and the 2004 death of Kathleen Savio, Drew Peterson’s third wife.

Savio was found drowned in her bathtub in March 2004--a death that a coroner’s jury at that time concluded was an accident. After 23-year-old Stacy Peterson vanished last Oct. 28, Savio’s death was re-investigated and authorities now say she was murdered.

Nearly a dozen friends and relatives of Stacy Peterson attended the county hearing in support of the referendum, arguing the mistake they attributed at least partly to the coroner’s office contributed to Peterson’s disappearance.

“I believe in my heart that had Kathleen Savio’s case been properly handled, my sister would most likely be alive today,” Peterson’s sister, Cassandra Cales, told county board members. “I cannot help thinking about that on a regular basis and believe that no family member should suffer the emotional roller-coaster that I have been on the last 10 months.”

Several county board members who backed the referendum also cited that case, contending it showed the coroner’s system needs to be replaced.

“Clearly, something went wrong four or five years ago,” said Republican board member Kathleen Konicki, referring to the Savio case. “I can’t get away with telling my citizens we have a great system. It failed.”

O’Neil didn’t specifically address the Savio case, but said replacing an elected coroner with a professional medical examiner wouldn’t change or improve the way deaths are investigated in the county.

“The simple answer is nothing would be different in terms of the process and functions we use in Will County,” O’Neil said. “The cost would be higher and the results would be the same.”

Questions about the costs of shifting to a medical examiner system were cited by several board members who voted against putting the question on the ballot.

There was a political element to the vote, with all 12 votes in favor of putting the question before voters coming from Republican board members. Seven Democrats who voted against the referendum were joined by 7 Republican board members.

Neighbor Sharon Bychowski said Peterson’s relatives and friends won’t abandon their efforts to change the system in Will County.

“We’re a little disappointed the voters won’t get to choose, but we’re not going to give up,” Bychowski said.

 34 
 on: August 18, 2008, 03:34:11 pm 
Started by HeDidIt - Last post by HeDidIt
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/bolingbrooksun/news/1113233,jo18_county_web.article

County officials nix vote on medical examiner

August 18, 2008Recommend

By STEWART WARREN / SWARREN@SCN1.COM
JOLIET -- After a nearly two-hour special meeting Monday, a Will County Board Committee of the Whole rejected the idea of a vote at Thursday's regular board meeting to put the medical examiner issue to a referendum.

Much of  Monday's meeting was taken up by speakers urging the board to ask voters whether they would be in favor of replacing an elected county coroner with an appointed medical examiner. The issue has gained momentum because of the disappearance of Drew Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, and the reclassification of his third wife's death from accidental to homicide.


 
Arline Rudolph (left) and Brenda Korneder react to tesimony during discussion by a Will County Board committee Monday whether to let voters decide if the county should eliminate the coroner position and replace it with a medical examiner.
(Steven Buyansky/Staff Photographer)


Among the petitioners was Stacy Peterson's aunt Candace Aikin, who sent a letter from El Monte, Calif., urging the referendum.

After rejecting the idea of a vote on the referendum Thursday by a 14-12 tally, county officials hinted they may form a special committee to investigate the issue further.




 35 
 on: August 18, 2008, 09:11:55 am 
Started by HeDidIt - Last post by HeDidIt
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-savio_18aug18,0,7919543.story

Questions abound over initial probe of Kathleen Savio's death
Family members wonder why investigators quickly thought foul play didn't kill 3rd wife of Drew Peters
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By Erika Slife and Matthew Walberg | Chicago Tribune reporters
August 18, 2008

When Kathleen Savio's lifeless body was discovered in the empty bathtub of her Bolingbrook home in 2004, state police immediately decided her death was not suspicious, a Will County deputy coroner's report obtained by the Tribune shows.

The investigators and experts re-examining her death as a possible murder are now asking how police could have been so quick to overlook signs that something sinister may have happened to the third wife of Drew Peterson, then a sergeant for the Bolingbrook Police Department.

They are suspicious about the absence of blood residue or a sediment ring on the walls of the tub where she was found, sources said. If she had bled from a head wound while drowning in slowly draining water—as the theory went—why was the tub not stained?

No towels or clothes were in the bathroom where she was discovered, a paramedic noted. Shampoo bottles were in upright positions along the small tub, unlikely if she had suffered a fall, according to a source. Books and papers were spread across her unmade bed and a picture was facedown on the floor near the nightstand, according to Illinois State Police reports also obtained by the Tribune.

Although a state police crime-scene technician had covered Savio's hands with bags to preserve evidence—a procedure that typically precedes a homicide investigation—the statements of police that night indicated no evidence of trauma or foul play, according to the deputy coroner's report.

An autopsy would show a 40-year-old woman in good health had drowned. A coroner's jury ruled her death an accident after a state police special agent testified Savio had probably fallen, hit her head and drowned in the water before it leaked out the drain.

But the case was reopened in November after Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, then 23, disappeared Oct. 28. Authorities named Peterson the prime suspect in her disappearance, and in February, State's Atty. James Glasgow called the Savio inquiry a murder investigation after a second autopsy indicated her death was a homicide. Glasgow said it appeared the scene was staged to look like an accidental drowning.

Peterson, 54, has not been named a suspect in Savio's case. He has denied any wrongdoing.

The police reports confirm speculation that Stacy Peterson gave him his principal alibi for his whereabouts in the days before Savio was discovered. The reports also show he was walking around the scene before state police arrived. At one point, he was alone in the bathroom with Savio's body and told emergency responders, "This is my ex-wife. Treat the scene with respect."

According to a report from that night, Deputy Coroner Mike VanOver asked Robert Deel, a crime scene technician for the state police, and "detectives if there was any reason to believe that this was a traumatic death and they stated NO, therefore the homicide/suspicious death protocol was not followed."

VanOver wrote in his report that he had notified his superiors that "the protocol was not being followed . . . because it was felt at that time by all parties that there were not signs of foul play or trauma for this death investigation."

Only a streak of blood was found in the tub, according to VanOver's report, police documents and testimony by the state police special agent at the coroner's inquest.

State police Lt. Scott Compton declined to comment on why his agency's technicians and investigators concluded the death was not suspicious, noting that crime-scene technicians "make observations and document those observations as part of their investigation and processing of a crime scene." He declined to comment further.

In an interview with the Tribune, VanOver said he was following the direction of state police. The coroner's office has been under fire for its role in Savio's investigation. On Monday, the Republican-controlled Will County Board will consider putting a referendum measure on the November ballot asking voters whether the elected coroner, now Democrat Patrick O'Neil, should be replaced by an appointed medical examiner.

"When they bagged the hands, that was when I asked the question, you know, 'Do you think anything is out of whack here?' " VanOver said. "Bob Deel was asked by me if he thought there was anything hinky here, and stuff like that, and if we should be doing something different, and I was told no."

Deel could not be reached for comment.

Savio's body was found March 1, 2004, in a semifetal position on her left side, according to the reports. Neighbors discovered the body after Peterson contacted them because he couldn't get ahold of her to drop off their two children from a weekend visit. About 10:40 p.m., a locksmith let them into Savio's home, and Peterson waited outside while neighbors went into the house. He rushed inside after one of them screamed.

Illinois State Police arrived about midnight, after Bolingbrook police called them.

Police interviewed Stacy Peterson for one hour March 3. She said she and her husband had spent the weekend with the children, backing up Peterson's statements made to police a day earlier. She said they had spent Saturday hanging around the house and had gone to the Shedd Aquarium Sunday. The only time Peterson left was Sunday morning to get doughnuts. Savio was found the next day, a Monday.

Peterson told police during his 65-minute interview that his divorce from Savio was "difficult at times," but that their "relationship had gotten a lot better" after he married Stacy.

Savio's relatives, who were never convinced she died in an accidental drowning, said police ignored their suspicions. For one thing, said Savio's older sister, Anna Doman, her body was found with short fingernails.

"It looked like somebody had cut her nails. She always let her nails grow; she was into that natural, long nail," Doman said.

Doman said no one in her family was interviewed by state police. She said authorities ignored her request to look through a suitcase full of documents Savio had saved regarding her ongoing fight with Peterson.

Savio's body was found weeks before their divorce's financial settlement was to be finalized.

"We tried to get somebody to at least look, investigate," Doman said. "Nothing, nothing, nothing."

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Copyright © 2008, Chicago Tribune


 36 
 on: August 14, 2008, 06:23:53 am 
Started by Elf - Last post by manos
I am from Tn. and I just contacted also.

 37 
 on: August 11, 2008, 03:55:03 pm 
Started by Elf - Last post by closeobserver
Hi!  I too had called and emailed in support of this law!

Does anyone know if the governor signed it??

According to this article, the "Hearsay Bill" is finally on the Gov's desk for signature. I thought all along that it was there a few weeks ago. Perhaps a quick signature and a quick arrest? There is hope!!

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=226896

 38 
 on: August 10, 2008, 06:38:41 am 
Started by chuckles - Last post by chuckles
words from from a jury peer:


Drew Peterson is no better than the many disgusting men that Chris Hansen has profiled on the NBC documentary show "To Catch a Predator."

Stacy was 16 or 17 years old when he, at the age of 47, got away with seducing her into his lair.

He is no better than any of the rest of the sick perverts that go after teen-aged girls, using whatever slick manipulative tactics that they use.

Drew Peterson is a predator and Stacy was his easy prey. Stacy had no adult really looking out for her. Her mother was gone, her father, from what has been reported, was for all accounts not really a parent to Stacy.

Stacy was a young girl - a teen-aged girl from an unstable family trying to find her way - very much on her own - in this world.

She was a little girl, Drew. She may have had the body of a woman, but she was 30 years younger than you, and a child!

Not only are you a murderer, but you are also a child molester.

I'm thinking you may well be facing charges on that count when you are arrested. It doesn't matter that Stacy was "willing" at the time. She was a minor.

You abused her by MANIPULATING yourself into her life when she was a minor.

Again, as you began your relationship with Stacy you were no better than all of the PIG-MEN who have been caught on tape by Chris Hansen of NBC.

And when it didn't work out - when Stacy began to get her adult mentality and realized what a ridiculous mistake she had made in becoming involved with you, YOU KILLED HER!

YOU PIG!

 39 
 on: August 04, 2008, 05:07:18 pm 
Started by HeDidIt - Last post by WriterOfWrongs
CHICAGO (AP) -- Domestic violence victims in Illinois now have a new tool to try to protect themselves from their abusers.

Governor Rod Blagojevich on Monday signed into law legislation that lets a judge order abusers to wear a GPS tracking device if they've violated a restraining order. Anti-domestic violence advocates hope the devices will help save lives because victims will be alerted when their offenders are near.

The family of Cindy Bischof helped push the law in Springfield.

Bischof was killed in March when she was gunned down by an ex-boyfriend in the Elmhurst parking lot where she worked. She had taken numerous steps to try to protect herself but it wasn't enough.

Now if the police & courts will take a more aggressive action when confronted with abusers, something might actually happen to curtail some of this. I wonder if guv. finally signed the other important bill on his desk....

 40 
 on: August 04, 2008, 01:49:53 pm 
Started by HeDidIt - Last post by scoopy
CHICAGO (AP) -- Domestic violence victims in Illinois now have a new tool to try to protect themselves from their abusers.

Governor Rod Blagojevich on Monday signed into law legislation that lets a judge order abusers to wear a GPS tracking device if they've violated a restraining order. Anti-domestic violence advocates hope the devices will help save lives because victims will be alerted when their offenders are near.

The family of Cindy Bischof helped push the law in Springfield.

Bischof was killed in March when she was gunned down by an ex-boyfriend in the Elmhurst parking lot where she worked. She had taken numerous steps to try to protect herself but it wasn't enough.

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