Will County Crime
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Peterson judge bars hearsay testimony about alibiAug 17, 2012 11:55 am - The judge overseeing former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson’s murder trial on Friday barred important hearsay testimony meant to undercut his alibi in the deat...
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Pathologist testifies Savio was murderedAug 16, 2012 10:00 am - A forensic pathologist who performed a second autopsy on Drew Peterson’s third wife years after she was found dead in her dry bathtub testified Thursday that there’s jus...
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Peterson judge again chastises prosecutorsAug 15, 2012 7:00 am - An increasingly exasperated judge at former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson’s murder trial delivered his strongest rebuke of prosecutors yet on Wednesday after...
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Judge to rule Wednesday on Peterson mistrialAug 14, 2012 7:59 am - The judge at Drew Peterson’s murder trial on Tuesday lambasted prosecutors who for the third time in as many weeks broached a subject they were told not to mention in fr...
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Jury selection begins in 2007 family killingsAug 13, 2012 6:55 pm - Jury selection has started in Will County for the trial of an Oswego man charged with shooting to death his wife and three children five years ago. Attorneys are expect...
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Inmate claims link between Lincoln, PetersonAug 09, 2012 3:00 pm - Abraham Lincoln has made cameo appearance at the Drew Peterson trial. As proceedings began Thursday, the judge announced in court that he's received a letter from an in...
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Savio said Peterson grabbed her by throat, friend testifiesAug 09, 2012 3:00 pm - Drew Peterson’s third wife told a friend a year before she was found dead in her bathtub that the former Bolingbrook police sergeant once broke into her home, grabbed he...
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Joliet man gets 50 years for shooting 12-year-old sonAug 06, 2012 5:10 pm - A Joliet man has been sentenced to a half-century in prison for shooting his 12-year-old son in the head a few days before Christmas in 2010. Will County prosecutors sai...
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Savio feared for her life, sister testifiesAug 03, 2012 10:31 am - Drew Peterson’s ex-wife told her sister six weeks before her death that she believed he would kill her, then begged her sister to take care of her two sons, the sister t...
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Judge chides prosecutors but allows Peterson trial to continueAug 02, 2012 7:30 am - A judge said Thursday that he believed Drew Peterson could receive a fair trial in his murder case, but not before chiding prosecutors for entering inadmissible evidence...