Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The mother of the former Bolingbrook police officer, convicted of killing his third wife, passed away this week.
Drew Peterson's mother died a month and two days after her son was convicted of murder. Betty Morphey, 84, never attended a single day of her son's five-week murder trial. She also never visited Peterson in the three and a half years he has been locked up in the Will County jail. Morphey suffered from severe dementia, according to a source close to the family. Morphey was married to Peterson's father, Donald Peterson, for 38 years. When her husband died she married Albert Morphey, Donald Peterson's boss at Northern Illinois Gas Company. One of Albert Morphey's sons, Thomas Morphey, has said he helped Peterson carry a blue barrel containing the dead body of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, out of his house. Thomas Morphey also said …
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Closing arguments in the Drew Peterson murder trial took up all of Tuesday, so the judge is going to send the jury out to decide the former Bolingbrook police officer's guilt or innocence Wednesday morning.
Sometime after Wednesday morning, the world will find out if the 12 men and women in the jury box of the Drew Peterson murder trial, think he did it or not. That's because Wednesday morning is when Judge Edward Burmila said he will send jurors out to deliberate over the former Bolingbrook police officer's guilt or innocence. "Everybody in America wants Drew Peterson convicted," said Joseph "Shark" Lopez, one of the ex-cop's lawyers, outside court after closing arguments in the most sensational murder case in Will County's history. "Everybody is dying for Drew to lose this case because misery loves company." The jury was set to begin deliberations Tuesday, but closing arguments lasted longer than Burmila expected. The judge—who did not …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The sheriff's department gave Patch the list of Drew Peterson's visitors. Who's been dropping by the jail to see the accused wife killer? Not his mom.
Patch obtained the list of approved visitors for Drew Peterson at the Will County jail, as well as an account of each person to see him since his May 2009 arrest on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Patch asked for the lists in June, but the sheriff's department refused to give them up. Sheriff's officials said doing so not only would constitute an invasion of privacy for those who wanted to visit Peterson but would pose a security risk for the jail. That's right—a security risk! Because once people figured out who's allowed to visit Peterson, they could "impersonate one of those on the list, thereby bypassing or circumventing the security of the (Will County Adult Detention Facility) through such means." Could it be that…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Eight jurors were chosen on the first day of the Drew Peterson case Monday.
Will County Judge Edward Burmila held a marathon jury selection session Monday and empaneled eight jurors for the Drew Peterson murder trial. It was the first day of jury selection and Burmila kept 31 of 40 prospective jurors for nearly 12 hours—past 9 p.m. Eight more people are needed for the 12-person jury and four alternates. Peterson, who appeared in court in a gray jacket, dark pants, a new haircut—and without his trademark mustache—stands accused of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Savio was found drowned in a dry bathtub in March 2004. Despite the tumultuous, occasionally violent divorce she was going through with Peterson and the strange circumstances of her death, the Illinois State Police quickly dismissed her case as a …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Patch will cover the Drew Peterson murder trial gavel-to-gavel with live updates, breaking news and video.
Kathleen Savio has been dead more than eight years, waiting for justice. Drew Peterson has been jailed for three, looking forward to finally getting his day in court. Stacy Peterson has been missing nearly five years, but the words she supposedly spoke to others may play a big part in whether her husband goes free or spends the rest of his life in prison. And you can get up-to-the minute information on the entire Drew Peterson courtroom saga throughout the case at Patch. We'll cover the case from gavel to gavel with up-to-the-minute live blogs, breaking news and videos. We'll also have bios on all the major players in the case and keep you in the loop on what's going down outside the courtroom. The trial of Drew Peterson, a disgraced …
Monday, May 7, 2012
One way or the other, whether he's going to prison or back home, it looks like Drew Peterson won't mark a fourth year in the Will County jail.
Three years ago today, a small army of police descended on Drew Peterson as he drove away from his Bolingbrook home, and a small army of media was there to record it. Three years later, the press is back, as the attention-starved Peterson was recently in court for the first time in nearly a year and a half. Peterson may have appreciated the coverage, but unfortunately for him, the disgraced former cop was still stuck in jail waiting on his murder trial to finally start. The good news for Peterson, 58, is he likely won’t be spending another year in segregation in the Will County jail. His trial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio, is all but certain to begin before the year is out, ending a lengthy legal saga of appeals …
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