[IL] Stacy, wife of Sgt Peterson missing - news day 2

One dead, one gone
Drew Peterson's ex-wife was found dead 3 years ago, now his current wife is missing
Chicago Sun-Times
BY STEFANO ESPOSITO AND DAN ROZEK
[EXCERPTS] ...Savio's family, who never thought a seemingly healthy 40-year-old woman had drowned, is elated. "I'm so happy," said one close relative, who asked not to be identified. "I don't feel they investigated it well enough." But as the Savio family awaits answers, so too do Stacy Peterson's loved ones... Peterson's husband told investigators he spoke with his wife on the phone about 9 p.m. Sunday -- and nothing in their conversation worried him. There have been no signs of foul play, authorities said. "Right now, it's a missing person case," said Bolingbrook Police Lt. Ken Teppel. "She didn't come home"... Peterson has not been named as a suspect in his wife's disappearance. He's been married four times and one source Tuesday portrayed Peterson's marital relationship with his current wife as strained. His relationship with his most recent ex-wife had also been troubled, Savio's relatives said. When Drew Peterson and Savio met in the early 1990s, he was the Romeo boyfriend who surprised her with a Valentine's Day trip to Jamaica, one relative recalled. But five or so years into the marriage, Savio began to receive anonymous letters saying her husband was cheating on her, said the relative... Whenever Savio confronted Peterson, he would beat her, the relative said. The relative said she took Savio to a hospital after one such beating in the late 1990s. "She was hit, she was bruised up, and she was dazed," the relative recalled. But Savio, who had two children with Peterson, was initially "deathly afraid" to leave her husband, the relative said. In 2002, Savio sought an order of protection in Will County court. In the order, Savio claimed that her husband had threatened to kill her. "He just doesn't care if he live[s] or die[s], or I live or die," Savio wrote in March 2002. That same year, Savio claimed in a letter to prosecutors that her husband had held a knife to her throat. In 2003, Savio filed for divorce after learning her husband was having an affair with a young woman --the future Stacy Peterson. When Savio confronted her husband, he admitted that he had made the woman pregnant, the relative said. Then in March 2004, Savio was found dead in a bathtub in her Bolingbrook home after the couple had divorced. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning even though the tub was empty when her body was discovered. Investigators theorized the water drained out...
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/627832,CST-NWS-boling31.article

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