Death of Ex-Cop's 3rd Wife Was Homicide (Drew Petersen)

Death of Ex-Cop's 3rd Wife Was Homicide
Published: 2/22/08, 5:05 AM EDT
By F.N. D'ALESSIO

CHICAGO (AP) - Amid the search for a former police officer's fourth wife, an autopsy on the exhumed body of the man's third wife showed what her relatives have long suspected - her death was no accident.

Kathleen Savio died by drowning and her death was ruled a homicide, Dr. Larry W. Blum said in an autopsy report released Thursday by the state's attorney's office. It was the second autopsy performed on Savio.

She was found dead in her bathtub in March 2004, shortly before her divorce with Drew Peterson was finalized. Four years ago, a coroner's jury ruled her death was an accident.

Savio's body was exhumed late last year after Peterson was named a person of interest in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy. He has said Stacy Peterson ran off with another man, but her relatives deny any affair and say she would not have willingly left her two young children.

"We have been investigating this as a murder since reopening the case in November of last year," Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said. "We now have a scientific basis to formally and publicly classify it as such."

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that somebody that drowned in an empty bathtub was murdered?

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