Authorities search for wife of Bolingbrook police officer

Illinois State Police were looking for the wife of a Bolingbrook police sergeant.

Stacy Ann Peterson, 23, was last heard from on Sunday, authorities said. She never showed up at an appointment to help a family member paint and rehab a house.

Police were investigating Peterson's disappearance as a missing persons case and foul play was not suspected, said Bolingbrook police spokesman Ken Teppel. State police were in charge of the case because it involved an officer's family, he said.

Stacy Peterson is married to Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, 53, a 29-year veteran of the police department.

"Sgt. Peterson is cooperating fully with the state police," said Teppel. "Obviously, he's distraught."

A telephone listing for Peterson could not be located. He declined to comment to the Chicago Tribune.

"I'm waiting for my attorney to advise me," Teppel told the newspaper for a story posted Tuesday on its Web site. "If he feels I should make a statement, then I will. If he advises against it, then I won't."

Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow told the Tribune Tuesday that he would review the death of Drew Peterson's previous wife. No charges were filed after Kathleen Savio, 40, drowned in a bathtub in March 2004 and a coroner's jury ruled the death accidental.

"I was not the state's attorney when this case was processed, so for purposes of this investigation, this is being re-looked at," Glasgow said.

Glasgow declined to discuss if there was a connection between Savio's death and Stacy Peterson's disappearance but added, "there are some unusual circumstances in the 2004 (Savio) case."

Stacy Peterson studied pre-nursing at Joliet Junior College, according to campus spokesman Jeff Julian.