Did Drew Peterson Feel SQUEEZED From Kathleen Savio’s Impending Divorce Settlement

Did Drew Peterson Feel SQUEEZED From Kathleen Savio’s Impending Divorce Settlement? Could that be why only six days before divorce proceedings, Kathleen Savio, at age 40, lifeless body was found in an empty bathtub in her Bolingbrook home?

Drew Peterson, who was indicted last week on murder charges in Kathleen Savio’s 2004 drowning, stood to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in the divorce from the sale of the couple’s home, Sud’s Pub, his Montgomery bar and half of his police pension, which pays $6,000 a month…according to court documents.

Instead of losing a bundle, Peterson got just about everything after Kathleen Savio’s death, including custody of their two children.

Plus there was a new will that left Drew Peterson everything. Now, why would Kathleen who was going out for half of everything that Drew Peterson had or was going to have all of a sudden leave him everything? I smell three day old fish!

Harry Smith, the attorney who was representing Savio in her divorce, at the time of her demise, stated this week that “he has turned over to prosecutors the subpoenas he had issued to Peterson regarding his pension and other financial matters.”

Smith, who twice testified before the grand jury investigating Savio’s death, stated that “it’s his understanding that the county has hired financial experts to determine exactly what the economic loss to Peterson would have been.” Even though the state’s attorney’s spokesman declined to comment, playing their cards close to the chest…it would be foolish not to look into that particular motive. Follow the money…

“I’m sure that’s what Peterson feared mostly, that she was going to take everything from him,” said Sue Doman, Kathleen Savio’s sister.

Kathleen, was found dead March 1, 2004. She and Peterson were already divorced, but the trial to settle the distribution of marital assets and child custody issues was scheduled for April 6th, 2004.

Joel Brodsky, Peterson’s attorney, gasping at straws then said “he wasn’t worried about the examination of his client’s divorce. That’s a very weak motive because half the people in America get divorced. So that means almost half the people in America have motive to commit murder. It’s not the strongest motive you’re ever going to come up with.”

Brodsky stated “he believes the prosecution’s case hinges on the state’s new hearsay law,” which he calls Drew’s Law, “which allows certain types of hearsay evidence into court.” Brodsky wants hearsay evidence completely omitted from the judicial system.

After Savio drowned, Peterson submitted a handwritten will signed by Drew and Kathleen specifying that in death all assets would go to the surviving spouse and appointing Peterson’s uncle James Carroll as executor. All proceeds from Kathleen’s estate, then valued as much as $288,000, according to court documents, were then handed over to Peterson.

A court appointed public estate administrator later wrote that Carroll’s actions “were not in the best interests of the Estate or its beneficiaries,” and noted that almost all of Kathleen Savio’s personal belongings had been removed from the home prior to the administrator’s appointment in April, just one month after her untimely death.

Did Drew Peterson Feel SQUEEZED From Kathleen Savio’s Impending Divorce Settlement, well, the fight over personal property began shortly after the two filed for divorce within a day of each other in March of 2002. Two months later, Kathleen was about to leave her home and take her two children to Communion practice at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Bolingbrook when she discovered her 1997 Mercury Mountaineer was missing, according to a court filing.

Drew called Kathleen and told her if she didn’t let him into the house to retrieve his water bed and other belongings, “she wouldn’t be able to find” the Mercury. He broke a court order by removing items from the home, Kathleen then asked that the judge find him in contempt.

Kathleens’ sister, Doman stated that the fighting over assets wore on her sister, Kathleen. “You could see a big change in her. I can see her face, and she was physically, mentally worn out. It was a long fight for her.”

Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant and 29-year police veteran, was already married to his fourth wife, Stacy, when Kathleen was drowned.

State police concluded at the time, that Kathleen’s death was not suspicious.

Stacy Peterson provided Peterson’s alibi, according to police reports. State’s Atty. James Glasgow reopened the investigation after Stacy Peterson’s disappearance in October of 2007.

The plot thickens, when several months after Savio died, Peterson replaced his divorce attorney, Alex Beck, with Joseph Mazzone, a former Will County prosecutor, who is chief counsel for a police union.

Beck has filed paperwork seeking to have his expenses repaid, including for work on the deposition and subpoena shortly before Savio’s death. This means that Drew didn’t even pay his attorney.

Drew Peterson and Kathleen Savio’s home sold in November of 2004, netting $287,000. Kathleen would have been entitled to at least half of it, if not more, according to her attorney. Drew Peterson had sold the Montgomery bar for $325,000 during their divorce and kept the proceeds for himself, according to the administrator’s report.

According to Kathleen Savio’s divorce petition, she wanted sole custody of the children, child support, alimony and equitable distribution of their marital assets, or whatever the judge deemed just.

According to Drew Peterson’s divorce petition, he simply requested that their shared assets be divided up. She accused him of adultery; he blamed her for extreme and mental cruelty.

In the two years before the divorce, between Savio, Drew Peterson and Stacy Peterson, Bolingbrook police were called 19 times, to settle disputes, some of which were physical.

Stacy contacted Smith, Savio’s divorce attorney, sometime in late 2007 to discuss filing for divorce from Peterson. Stacy disappeared shortly afterward and then Stacys’ mother also disappeared when she started to make a big fuss about her daughters disappearance. No one has seen or heard from her either. I smell three murders…

Drew Peterson, is also the main suspect in Stacy Peterson’s disappearance. He is being held in lieu of $20 million bail, which he has denied wrong doing.

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