Update: The deputy coroner who took the Kathleen Savio death call testified in a Will County courtroom today that state police Crime Scene Investigator Robert Deel told him there was nothing "we need to be looking for here," prompting him to abandon the suspicious death protocol.

Stacy Peterson hatched a plan to blackmail husband Drew Peterson with the murder of his previous wife, a Wheaton attorney said Monday. Harry Smith, the lawyer who represented Drew Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, in their divorce, said fourth wife Stacy called him and requested he represent her when she dumped Peterson herself.

A divorce attorney for Drew Peterson's third wife says the former suburban Chicago police officer's fourth wife called him days before she disappeared in 2007. Harry Smith says Stacy Peterson told him that Drew Peterson was angry because he thought she'd told somebody he had killed Kathleen Savio.

The forensic pathologist who conducted the second autopsy on Kathleen Savio said she was a victim of a homicide. Dr. Larry Blum said the injuries found on Savio's body were inconsistent with falling in a bathtub, as state police concluded after investigating her March 2004 death.

One state police investigator said he was "disgusted" by the way his agency handled Kathleen Savio's death. Another said he still believes she accidentally drowned. And a fortuneteller said she heard secondhand about Drew Peterson making murderous threats. More testimony came Thursday in the hearsay evidence hearing before Peterson's murder trial.

Prosecutors suggested Drew Peterson used his martial arts training to hold down his third wife while he drowned her in a tub.

The boyfriend and sisters of Drew Peterson's third wife all told how she feared for her life and predicted he would kill her. Their testimony echoed that of a good number of the other 42 witnesses, saying Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, correctly guessed she would die under suspicious circumstances.

The boyfriend and sisters of Drew Peterson's third wife all told how she feared for her life and predicted he would kill her. Their testimony echoed that of a good number of the other 42 witnesses, saying Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, correctly guessed she would die under suspicious circumstances.

A Bolingbrook family recounted the nightmare of finding their beloved next-door neighbor drowned in her dry tub and told of her estranged husband shoving her face in the dirt during a confrontation. Thomas and Mary Pontarelli and their 19-year-old son, Nick Pontarelli, all testified Monday about what it was like to live next-door to Kathleen Savio, both before and after husband Drew Peterson left her.

In the days before she disappeared, Stacy Peterson seemed to be telling a lot of people her husband was not only lurking around in a black outfit the night his previous wife suspiciously turned up dead, but then asked her to lie for him about it to the police.

A Braidwood man said Drew Peterson offered him $25,000 to find someone to kill his third wife Kathleen Savio.

Since Drew Peterson's arrest in May on a charge of murdering his third wife, life on Pheasant Chase Court in Bolingbrook has been mostly calm and quiet. It's a far cry from the media storm that began after Stacy Peterson first disappeared in October 2007.

A state police special agent testified Wednesday that Drew Peterson told him that he was convinced that his wife was being unfaithful. State police Special Agent Patrick Callahan said in testimony that Drew repeatedly brought up the "great sex" he had with Stacy.

Update: Pastor Neil Schori has been called to testify about what Stacy Peterson told him about her troubled marriage. Drew Peterson’s attorneys are objecting on the grounds that his testimony would violate clergy privilege. State's Attorney James Glasgow is arguing that the privilehge does not apply to nondenominational clergy. Attorneys for both sides are researching case law.

Drew Peterson's stepbrother pieced together the accused wife-killer's allegedly murderous schemes and revealed how he was supposedly roped into helping dispose of Stacy Peterson's body. Thomas Morphey told his shocking tale from the witness stand on the second day of a historic hearing to determine what hearsay evidence will be allowed at Peterson's murder trial.

Sharon Bychowski's testimony likely sounded very familiar to readers of "Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Sergeant Drew Peterson" by Herald-News reporter Joe Hosey.

The Bolingbrook police called in state agents when the estranged wife of one of their own sergeants turned up dead in the midst of a contentious divorce. These state police detectives didn't speak to the dead woman's relatives. "We did not interview him as a suspect," said retired state police Sgt. Patrick Collins, during testimony Friday in a pre-trial hearing.

Drew Peterson's lawyers struggled to stop a felony gun charge from coming back to court just a day after prosecutors threw nine witnesses at the former cop in hope of proving he killed his fourth wife to keep her from testifying that he drowned his third wife.

A cop, co-workers and the uncle of the woman her husband left her for told of the anguish and abuse Kathleen Savio suffered at Drew Peterson's hands. Nine witnesses testified Tuesday in a hearing to determine whether hearsay evidence will be allowed at Peterson's murder trial.

The lawyers for accused wife killer Drew Peterson tried to throttle public access to a landmark evidentiary hearing less than two weeks away, but Sun-Times Media won't give in without a fight.

Judge Stephen White on Friday denied a motion to bar the public from a Jan. 19 hearing to determine what — if any — hearsay evidence will be allowed in Drew Peterson's murder trial.

A potential star witness in the murder case against Drew Peterson paid a visit to the state's attorney's office Wednesday to prepare for a landmark hearing on hearsay evidence slated to be held in 12 days.

Drew Peterson's legal team has asked to bar the public from a potentially explosive hearing to determine what hearsay evidence will be allowed at the former Bolingbrook cop's murder trial. Local attorney George Lenard filed the motion Monday. Peterson is charged with the murder of his third wife.

O.J. Simpson hired nine lawyers when he found himself jailed on a murder rap. Drew Peterson is nearly halfway to matching the Juice now that he has added local attorney George Lenard to his legal stable.