First wife's drowning gets second look

Authorities said Wednesday they are looking again at the 2004 drowning death of a woman whose ex-husband -- a 53-year-old suburban Chicago police sergeant -- says his current wife is missing.

Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson's wife, Stacy Ann Peterson, 23, was last heard from Sunday before missing an appointment to help a family member paint and rehab a house, according to police.

The 29-year police veteran's previous wife, Kathleen Savio, drowned in her Bolingbrook home bathtub in March 2004, months after divorcing Petersen. No charges were filed, and a coroner's jury ruled the 40-year-old's death accidental.

Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow, however, has already started pulling and reading through old files from the Savio case, including police and coroner's reports, spokesman Charles Pelkie said Wednesday.

"In light of recent developments, he's reviewing this with an open and fresh mind ... to determine if further action will be warranted," he said, adding that Glasgow wasn't in office when Savio died and so hadn't been familiar with her case.

Pelkie declined to provide other details, but among the documents Glasgow would be likely to review are 2002 Will County court documents in which Savio asked for an order of protection, claiming her husband had threatened to kill her.

Glasgow declined to speculate Tuesday about possible links between the Stacy Peterson and Savio cases, saying only that "there are some unusual circumstances in the 2004 case."