Correctional Officer Training and Education: Chester Police Department (IL)

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In a rare public outburst of anger, Drew Peterson proclaimed his innocence in the death of his third wife. Moments later, the Chicago-area police officer was sentenced to 38 years in prison for Kathleen Savio’s…

Wife killer Drew Peterson’s latest mugshot reveals how prison has aged him as he fights for appeal on 38-year sentence
The 60-year-old convict looked fatter, with deep under-eye bags and his trademark goatee was almost entirely gray in new mugshot
The former cop is being held in protective custody by the Illinois Department of Corrections
Peterson was found guilty in 2012 for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, eight years before
Questions remain about his fourth wife, Stacy, who has been missing since 2007 and whose body has never been found

It appears that prison has been no holiday camp for wife killer Drew Peterson as his latest mugshot reveals.
The 60-year-old convict appeared to have put on weight and developed deep under-eye bags while his trademark goatee had turned almost entirely gray.
The former cop is being held by the Illinois Department of Corrections as he awaits the appeals court’s decision on offering him a new trial.
Wife killer Drew Peterson, 60, appeared more haggard in the latest mugshots released from the Illinois Department of Corrections where he is serving 38 years
The first arguments from his defense lawyers in the appeal are to be held in April at the earliest, according to Radar Online.
Peterson was found guilty in 2012 for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, eight years before.
On March 1, 2004, Ms Savio was discovered by a neighbor face down in her dry bathtub, her thick, black hair soaked in blood and a two-inch gash in the back of her head.
The death of the 40-year-old aspiring nurse was initially deemed an accident.

After Peterson’s fourth wife, 23-year-old Stacy Peterson, vanished in 2007, Savio’s body was exhumed, re-examined and her death reclassified as a homicide.
Peterson had divorced Savio a year before her death. His motive for killing her, prosecutors said, was fear that a pending settlement would wipe him out financially
He is currently serving 38 years for her murder and is not due to be released until May 2050 when he will be well into his nineties.
Questions remain about Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy, who has been missing since 2007 and whose body has never been found.

Peterson, a former cop, is serving 38 years for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio (pictured) in 2004
Peterson revealed in 2013 that he lived in fear of being killed behind bars.
According to a letter to his lawyer at the time, he was not adapting well to his new home.
‘I’m in a cell the size of a broom closet, peeling paint, rusting fixtures, I have no TV or anything and I haven’t been out since I got here,’ he wrote to his former attorney Joel Brodsky in one letter.
‘Prison is all the nightmarish things that one would think.’
Peterson is incarcerated at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois where he is being held in protective custody throughout his sentence because of his former profession as a cop.
Drew Peterson’s 2012 trial was the first in Illinois history where prosecutors built their case on hearsay thanks in part to a new law, dubbed ‘Drew’s Law,’ tailored to the case.
The hearsay, prosecutors said, let his wives ‘speak from their graves’ through family and friends.
The hearsay – any information reported by a witness not based on the witness’ direct knowledge – included a friend who said Savio told her Peterson once put a knife to her throat and warned her: ‘I could kill you and make it look like an accident.’
Savio so feared for her life that she kept a knife under her mattress.

A former co-worker of Peterson’s, Jeff Pachter, testified that Peterson offered him ,000 to hire a hit man to kill Savio, though he never followed through.
Peterson was 26 years older than his fourth wife, Stacy, when they married, only eight days after his third divorce was finalized. Four years later, the 23-year-old went missing in 2007.
This disappearance prompted Illinois State Police and the FBI to investigate, and they later had Savio’s body exhumed, re-examined and her death reclassified as a homicide.
When her sister called the police reporting Stacy’s disappearance, Peterson said that she had called him several days before and said that she left him for another man. Her car was found at the airport.
One of the biggest aspects in the case of her disappearance was the issue of whether or not he disposed of her body in a large blue container, three of which he bought prior to when she went missing.

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