Monday, November 26, 2012
The Drew Peterson media circus prevented Vaughn from getting a fair trial, his lawyer said, and the wife-killer's attorneys didn't help things either.
First, he killed one wife, then he was named a suspect in the disappearance of another, and now Drew Peterson's very existence has mucked up Christopher Vaughn's murder trial, the Oswego man's lawyer said Monday. Vaughn's lawyer, George Lenard, said the specter of Drew Peterson hanging over the Vaughn case is just one of the reasons his convicted quadruple-killer client needs a new trial. Besides the problem with Peterson, whose own murder trial was taking place in the courtroom next-door to Vaughn's in August and September, Lenard claimed Vaughn's case was corrupted when prosecutors succeeded in "indoctrinating" one of the jurors. Lenard also said a prosecutor insulted him during the closing arguments and he accused the jury of "improper …
Tuesday, September 4, 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 accused wife-killer's guilt or innocence Wednesday morning.
"Everybody in America wants Drew Peterson convicted," one of the ex-cop's lawyers said outside court after closing arguments in the most sensational murder case in Will County's history. And if that's the case, it's bad news for the accused wife-killer, as it won't take the whole world to ship Peterson off to prison, just the 12 men and women on his jury. Sometime after Wednesday morning, the whole world is going to find out if those 12 think the way defense attorney Joseph "Shark" Lopez suspects everyone else does, as that's when Judge Edward Burmila said he will send them out to deliberate over Peterson's guilt or innocence. "Everybody is dying for Drew to lose this case because misery loves company," Lopez said enigmatically. The jury …
Monday, August 27, 2012
Drew Peterson's lawyers called their first witnesses in the ex-cop's murder trial.
The judge in the Drew Peterson murder trial rejected a bid by defense attorneys to have the accused wife-killer acquitted without even putting on a case. Peterson lawyer Steve Greenberg argued at length Monday that prosecutors utterly failed to prove Peterson was even in the home of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, when she died, much less that he killed her. "They didn't do it because they can't do it," Greenberg said. "It's like they were trying to nail a clump of Jell-o to a tree and make it stick there," he said. After Judge Edward Burmila denied the ruling, the defense called six witnesses, none of whom was Peterson's son Thomas Peterson. Sun-Times columnist and Drew Peterson "friend" Michele "Michael" Sneed claimed earlier in the day …
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
An Illinois State Police crime scene tech involved in both the Drew Peterson and Christopher Vaughn cases seems to be posing a problem for prosecutors.
Prosecutors apparently feel Illinois State Police crime scene technician Robert Deel has done enough damage to high-profile murder cases for one month. Just two weeks after Deel testified under oath in the Drew Peterson murder trial that he believes Peterson's third wife Kathleen Savio actually died in an accident, prosecutors took steps to minimize Deel's role in the Christopher Vaughn murder trial. A motion penned by Will County Assistant State's Attorney Michael Fitzgerald asks Judge Daniel Rozak to stop Vaughn's lawyers from asking Deel about his involvement in the Peterson case or about a supposed letter sent to his supervisors. Fitzgerald requested Rozak "prohibit the defense from questioning Robert Deel about a letter he believes …
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.
See the full list of approved visitors for Drew Peterson here. 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…
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
“In all my relationships, I treated my partners like gold and spoiled them, which was probably a big mistake on my part,” Peterson wrote in one.
You can lock Drew Peterson up for years, but you can’t stop him from sweet-talking the ladies on the outside. Peterson, the 58-year-old former Bolingbrook cop, accused killer and serial marrier charged with murdering one wife and suspected by the Illinois State Police of having a hand in another's disappearance, sent love letters from jail to a 26-year-old DuPage County woman throughout the spring of 2010. “Hello my love,” Peterson wrote to the young woman in one of the letters recently given to Patch. “I really miss you and keep dreaming about holding you … “You still got my heart and I hope you still (have) mine.” The lovestruck Peterson’s letters, all written in pencil on lined notebook paper, depict visions of romance, freedom from the…
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 …
mike
1:17 am on Friday, November 30, 2012
This is horrible to our family the way people can treat us it seems nothing matters both more it's a bout the money well our family's mean lots to us even our belongings we protect were we live bad the things we love but cleaning up trees and using some dirt fir the floods come on will county deal with the criminals not the ridicules cleaning up its time to stand up and tell how we feel our we … more ›