The hearsay hearing of Drew Peterson for the murder of Kathleen Savio continues.
Steve Maniaci, Kathleen’s boyfriend at the time of her death was on the stand this morning. A neighbor of Drew and Stacy’s, Jacqueline Mitchem, testified that Drew behaved strangely on what would have been the day before her body was found. Kathleen’s sister, Sue Doman will testify this afternoon.
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Didn’t Drew ask the officers who arrived to show some respect? Too bad he didn’t take his own advice. Asshole.
The locksmith who was on the stand yesterday said that he wasn’t sure if it was Drew or a dispatcher when he got the call on his cell for a well being check.
The lock was hard to open and it took about fifteen minutes to open it.
He didn’t pay attention to who was around or what they said as he was opening the lock.
He said he has known Drew for about thirty years and that he didn’t charge the police department for his work that night and that he doesn’t always charge.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/02/witness-peterson-denied-killing-savio.html
Robert Akin — locksmith who opened Kathleen’s door
A locksmith also testified to opening the front door to Savio’s home that night and noticing that her deadbolt was not locked, which would have been unusual. According to Savio’s neighbors, who said she was afraid Drew was going to kill her, she always kept all her locks locked.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/neighbor-testifies-peterson-hearing
Witnesses testified that Savio, fearful of Peterson, always kept her front door and screen door locked when she was gone or inside her home. But locksmith Robert Akin Jr. said only the front doorknob –– one of at least three locks on the two doors –– was locked when he was called to her home that night.
https://petersonstory.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/drew-peterson-hearsay-hearing-day-9/#comment-57227
It’s starting to look as if the even the neighborhood cats knew that Kathleen was afraid for her life and believed Drew would kill her. So when Hardy and that other officer canvassed the neighborhood the night Kathleen died, they just didn’t think that these statements were important enough to write down?
Also, how great to have a locksmith who comes out at night, spends fifteen minutes on a tricky lock and then doesn’t charge. I know that cops often get free coffee and donuts but what the hell?
I wonder what Hardy had on his mind saying that he and Girten had canvassed the area.
Cyrhla, I think he meant they wandered aimlessly around the area. JMO
LOL @ Noway!
WB said:
The locksmith who was on the stand yesterday said that he wasn’t sure if it was Drew or a dispatcher when he got the call on his cell for a well being check.
The lock was hard to open and it took about fifteen minutes to open it.
He didn’t pay attention to who was around or what they said as he was opening the lock.
He said he has known Drew for about thirty years and that he didn’t charge the police department for his work that night and that he doesn’t always charge.
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What utter bollocks.
Regarding this quote posted by Facs yesterday:
Emergency medical technician Louis Oleszkiewicz testified that a towel shown in crime scene photos alongside the tub was not there when he arrived. Under questioning from a defense attorney, he said he did not see a bathrobe and two towels shown in a photo, hung on the inside of the bathroom door, which were not visible when the door was open.
This is interesting because the next door neighbors husband said when they found Kathleen in the bathtub, and Drew checked her pulse and said what will I tell my children the next door neighbor looked around to Drew and said, look around there is no towels , no clothes. It was after that Drew said everybody out this could be a possible crime scene. This is when Drew realized his first mistake! Question is when was he able to get those towels, and bathrobes in place? I wonder who else didn’t see them in place, then seen them in place? I hope there is other witnesses to this!
Noway, You make me laugh, but maybe we’re too harsh? Perhaps Hardy’s keen detective skills are just too sophisticated for mere ‘lay people’ to grasp and he was referring not to interview technique, but those cool new canvas shoes he wore during his aimless wander. 😉
🙂 I am just a lay person with a lay person opinion.
The photos showed some towels and a robe on the back of the door, which it’s true, the first-comers and paramedics may not have seen. It would be easy for Drew to grab one of those towels from behind the door and toss it on the side of the tub after shooing everyone out. IMO
Ok according to this time line provided by the Village:
10:44 pm on March 1st 911 dispatch received a call that Kathleen Savio had been found unresponsive in her home.
11:17 pm on March 1st the Will County Coroners office arrived on the scene.
12:01 am The ISP were requested. Illinois State police arrived and took over the scene at 12:56 am
So the 911 call would of been the EMT arriving on the scene. He didn’t see towels or the robe as seen in the photos. But somewhere in that hour or so Drew put the robe and towel in place. Who would of taken the photos? The coroners office, the ISP, or both?
Yes Facs, I think your right about that. I am glad the neighbor, and the EMT so far on the scene were able to see that there was no towel originally , or robe where they seen them from the photos. I hope there were others also who seen this. Drew thought he was smart by telling people to get out of there in case it was a crime scene! Oh yeah crime scene he was destroying, and staging!
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It also would have been “easy” to use those towels to cover Kitty’s body and grant some shred of dignity, yet DP said, “No.”
Exactly Coffee your right! Although was probally more of his controlling behavior, and trying to humiliate her.
FYI: Those who are looking for transcripts of the hearing, the Circuit Clerk’s Office advises to begin by calling the supervisor of the court reporters at 815-774-7854.
It would be great if they put them on their internet site. So many people, incl. myself, are interested in them.
I wonder what was the information only the murderer could have.
I think you have to pay for the transcripts if you want them!
http://www.suntimes.com/news/peterson/2024852,kathleen-savio-peterson-hearing-020210.article
(my bolding)
Interesting about the deadbolts not being locked. A deadbolt would have had to been locked by someone INSIDE the house. Drew only locked the lock on the doorknob, but couldn’t set the deadbolts after he killed Kathleen and left the house. The night he killed Kathleen, he must have entered the house using a key.
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The night Savio’s body was found, Maniaci said he told police about a hole in Savio’s garage that she said Peterson used to enter her house as well as other incidents between Savio and Peterson.
But none of what he said found its way into the police report on Savio’s death, he said.
–Steve Schmadeke
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yes, indeed; things worked out very well for Drew. An incompetent bungled pathetic excuse for an investigation, headed by a ISP narc who IMO knew Drew and vice versa, right on up the chain to the Will County States Attorney who prosecuted Kathleen at Drews insistance while ignoring her pleas for help. All these waterboys at Drew’s beck and call but no one for Kathleen.
Well an FYI about Will County. The drug task unit, along with the police joined liked 6-7 different towns. They were able to go into each others jurisdictions when it comes to warrants etc. They also joined the joint drug task units together. They worked together on bringing down drug dealers, and sting operations. I am sure Drew would of known a lot of these officers if they were Narcs, or worked with TASK. I am not sure what the operations are called now but I do know that Joliet, Romeoville, Bolingbrook, Cresthill are among some of the towns involved in this sting where they can go into each others jurisdictions and met quite frequently and kept each other updated. I will see what information I can find about this, as this has been going on for quite some years now.
He (the locksmith) said he has known Drew for about thirty years and that he didn’t charge the police department for his work that night and that he doesn’t always charge.
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A locksmith gets called out at night and doesn’t charge.
Why does he charge the Police Department for some work and not for other.
What is the deciding factor ???
Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team is for LaSalle, Bureau and Putnam Counties.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/charges-cop-used-squad-car-deliver-pot
Charges: Cop Used Squad Car to Deliver Pot
Updated: Tuesday, 02 Feb 2010, 7:46 AM CST
Published : Tuesday, 02 Feb 2010, 7:46 AM CST
Joint operations of state, county, and local LE
11/10/2007 (www.suntimes.com) “Cop once fired over claim of betrayal”
“Beginning in 1978, Peterson was assigned to the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad, a joint operation of state, county and local officers from Will and Grundy counties.” – “Two years after being hired [In 1977] at Bolingbrook, Peterson received a “police officer of the year” award, according to court documents.”
**This statement below kind of confirms that ISP and the MANS agency worked together on undercover ops**
11/10/2007 (www.suntimes.com) “Cop once fired over claim of betrayal”
“Peterson, for reasons Janota said he has never been able to explain, allegedly sabotaged one of the squad’s drug stings and gave the identity of an undercover narcotics agent to a convicted killer under investigation for dealing drugs, Janota said. “We found out from different sources that the identity of an Illinois State Police officer was revealed to the [killer], by Mr. Peterson,” Janota said. ” . . . We immediately notified the undercover officer that his life was in jeopardy.” Added Janota, “Putting a fellow officer’s life in jeopardy is unforgivable as far as I’m concerned.”
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/crime/Joliet_drug_sweep_nabs_27
MANS agents were assisted by the Joliet, Lockport, Bolingbrook and Romeoville police departments and the Will County Sheriff’s Gang Supression Unit.
Just some of what I have found so far. So it does show these towns work together, and with each other. So I would think Drew did work with some of these officers from other towns, and state agencies.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/plainfieldsun/news/2025043,Peterson-hearing-Savio-boyfriend-JO020210.article
Pretty much what we gleaned from his tweets. I’m sure he’ll have a more detailed story tonight.
11/10/2007 (www.suntimes.com) “Cop once fired over claim of betrayal”
“Peterson, for reasons Janota said he has never been able to explain, allegedly sabotaged one of the squad’s drug stings and gave the identity of an undercover narcotics agent to a convicted killer under investigation for dealing drugs, Janota said. “We found out from different sources that the identity of an Illinois State Police officer was revealed to the [killer], by Mr. Peterson,” Janota said. ” . . . We immediately notified the undercover officer that his life was in jeopardy.” Added Janota, “Putting a fellow officer’s life in jeopardy is unforgivable as far as I’m concerned.”
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Obviousely Drew was a dirty cop who traded info for special considerations. One can speculate as to what these special considerations might be or who they were really for. Sometimes the lines become so blurred that it’s impossible to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
Drew conducted himself as though he was above the law because he was.
I’m guessing that Jacqueline Mitchem is the wife of Bolingbrook High School Principal, James A. Mitchem Jr. Mitchem and his teenage son both testified before the Grand Jury in May 2008. The Mitchems also took in one of Kathleen’s boys temporarily after Drew was arrested. They live either next door or two doors down from Drew.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/05/petersons-attorney-goes-on-new-media-blitz.html
I was just going to ask that Facs, if this was the same Mitchem’s the boys stayed with?
Wow, I just realized you can see Stacy’s memorial garden in front of Sharon’s house if you zoom in on the Google Satelite Map.
cool!!!
My last post yesterday was supposed to have a question after it about there being no hearing today. For there was a Savio estate hearing going on.
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I guess Drew didn’t have to be there.
That is something about the picture showing towels.
Yep some wild things going on in that head let me tell ya!
Hmmm so he didn’t go to that this morning before the hearings today for hearsay?
If I may, I’d like to suggest that in this case it wasn’t so much not charging the police department as it was not charging Drew. After all, Drew reportedly asked for him specifically. Nothing against the Mr Akin, but we know that Drew liked people to ‘owe’ him, thus doing favors, loaning money, offering tools, etc was simply Drew’s way of demanding and getting paybacks when he needed them. I think everything w/him was conditional. (He even asked Thomas Morphey, “How much do you love me?”)
Having been friends for over 30 years, I think in this case the deciding factor was Drew.
With others, it could have been anything-if it were personal, w/a BBPD officer, or depending on how much he had been used in the last month, etc.
I know you weren’t speaking of Drew, JAH. These are just my thoughts.
To Drew, no good deed goes unpunished, lol.
Yep friends of 30 yrs will do a lot of favors for each other, and have each others backs. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours! Wonder just how much scratching was going on we haven’t heard about yet.
Excellent point, Cheryl. Drew seemed to like being in the position of being owed favors.
I found it really interesting that Akin believed he was helping with a “well-being check” but didn’t recall whether Drew called him or the BBPD did. Did Drew try to make it sound “official” when he used his personal cell to call Akin?
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Lovely combo of his pathological need to control and absurd delusions of grandeur.
Yeppers, and I agree w/questions4you. No wonder Drew had a reputation of being outgoing and congenial…he was always biding his time for “his”.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/apArticle/id/D9DK9T5O0/
This stuff is so sad. I can’t imagine being the judge and hearing testimony like this day after day.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/02/witness-peterson-denied-killing-savio.html
Wonder how much money Drew’s book made? Wonder how much Joel made off selling interviews with his client? Wonder how many chicken wings he sold?
Wonder how much Drew made from the stuff he removed from Kathleen’s house?
I guess we already know that he got all of the house and businesses and whatever he would have had to pay in child support, alimony and 100% of his pension.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14318423
Is the same exlawenforcement that used to post to the forum that JB created in support of DP? I can’t remember the name of the forum, but many who support justice for Stacy read there to see what the opposition was saying. If you posted anything against DP you were terminated.
When is Andy Abood’s book coming out? He seems very interested in broadcasting his involvement in the case…
http://aboodlaw.com/news.htm
Hosey’s story has been updated. New stuff:
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/peterson/2025043,Peterson-hearing-Savio-boyfriend-JO020210.article
The locksmith stated he did not charge the Police Department for being called out to Kathleens house that night, because he can’t possibly charge the Police Department for being called out on funny business.
Even though Drew was walking around in his uniform and was supposedly on duty, his call was not official Police business, it was Drew doing things he wasn’t supposed to be doing !
“He said, ‘Ha, ha, ha. Tell Anna I found the will under the floorboards, and you guys aren’t going to get anything.”…
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So now he found the will under the floorboards.
Another time he stated he found the will tucked in a book (!!)
In a way it does seem like bad judgment to sign a book deal while the case is ongoing, but as was pointed out in the story, Sue’s been saying what she said in court today for the last 5 years! It’s not like she suddenly popped out of the wordwork with some story in hopes of profiting from her sister’s death.
I know she has spoken at least once at a domestic violence event and I’m sure her intent is to speak out about what happened to her sister and to do her best to help other women.
Who would leave a will under the floorboards anyway.
No one would ever look there for a will, so it gets found in 200 years when the house gets demolished – LOL !!
questions:
friends of 30 yrs will do a lot of favors for each other, and have each others backs. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours! Wonder just how much scratching was going on we haven’t heard about yet
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I recall that a cop from Tinley Park or ? served on the coroners jury and volunteered a character reference to the others serving on this jury about what a great guy Drew was and so forth, and some thought that he shouldn’t have even been allowed on this jury in the first place. Similiar to the ISP investigator Collins who was a narc cop and likely knew Drew. Everyone just sort of stepped up to the plate for him, at Kathleen’s expense.
There’s a lot about him on the blog if you dig back. He was from Orland Park – Dennis Pratl.
https://petersonstory.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/jim-pretto-savio-inquest-juror-if-we-had-known/
..and I hope they’re realizing now that if he’d been allowed to continue, it may have been at their expense as well, Writer, because the only one to whom Drew is true is Drew himself. There is no conscience, I don’t see remorse, and I sure can’t find compassion or humanity. The only thing that matters to Drew in any relationship is what he could get out of it.
Seems like everyone else is expendable and anyone is fair game, and he plays people like marionettes, while he holds the strings and contorts them on his stage.
Are you listening Brodsky et al?
(I’m using present tense, here because sadly, this isn’t over yet).
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-0203-drew-peterson-hearing-20100202,0,4789883.story
ebruary 2, 2010 at 9:07 pm | #58
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“He said, ‘Ha, ha, ha. Tell Anna I found the will under the floorboards, and you guys aren’t going to get anything.”…
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Sorry to go on and on about the will, but wasn’t this the same will they supposedly made “together” before they went on vacation a few years prior ??
If it is the same will wouldn’t Drew already know who were going to be the main beneficiaries or how their assets were going to be divided since he was there when the will was made up (!!) and why wouldn’t he have a copy of that will himself all that time and if he didn’t why would Kathleen need to “hide” that will (under the floorboards no less) from him since he supposedly wrote it with her (!!) or hide it from the family if they weren’t getting anything anyway and even more so why would Drew have to “find” the will to let the family know “hahaha” you’re not getting anything”.
That just doesn’t make one iota bit of sense !!
“Alex Morelli, I got it!”
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Does it mean he called Morelli then or that was just a sort of exlamation expressing his satisfaction? I would love to know.
Yes, I think he put Morelli in big troubles. I wonder if Morelli has always regretted knowing Drew or he said so after learning he might have problems too.
I am curious if he is also going to testify. It would be great to know what sort of man he is.
BTW, I wonder why still kept the will in Kathleen’s house. Did he forget about it like to put the towels back?
BTW, I wonder why still kept the will in Kathleen’s house. Did he forget about it like to put the towels back?
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LOL @ cyrhla.
Here’s some more about the Will.
This time Drew saying they just “tucked it away” (as in under the floorboards ???)
Smith was representing Savio in her long divorce proceedings from Peterson.
Though he said he recalled Savio told him she and Drew Peterson didn’t have a will, he couldn’t offer specifics about the conversation.
Drew Peterson, meanwhile, has said he found the will after his ex-wife died.
“We just tucked it away, and I found it after she died,” Peterson said earlier this year. “There’s nothing sinister and out of line about it. Everything was done proper.”
A Will County judge accepted the will as valid in 2005 after two of Drew Peterson’s friends testified they had witnessed Peterson and Savio sign the document.
I wonder if Kathleen had ever signed the will, and if she had, did it happened after he tied her arms and legs and throw her down the stairs (in the presence of Morelli and Marcolina)? How could it be accepted if Smith clearly said Kathleen had said not to have any will?
‘Ha, ha, ha. Tell Anna I found the will under the floorboards, and you guys aren’t going to get anything.”…
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In fact, he they did not want his money and he robbed his own children.
You know, I sometimes think Drew wanted to kill Kathleen much earlier but the children were too small and he did not want to have them on his head everyday until he met Stacy. She took over his responsibilities. That was her who spent most of the time with them.
That is why he was so desperately looking for another woman after he killed Stacy.
Did he have to prove being a good father so much if it wasn’t the truth? He has never been interested in his children. Furthermore, he used to abandon their mothers after they got pregnant. POS!
Hi Cyrhla!
“You know, I sometimes think Drew wanted to kill Kathleen much earlier…”
If that will really was written years ago and stuffed under the floorboards, looks like! If the will is a more recent forgery, looks like so, too!
It’s stunning really how in some of these “issues” for Drew it doesn’t matter what his answer is, he’s stuffed either way. (another eg the non-investigation of K’s death)
New post is up now.
https://petersonstory.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/drew-peterson-hearsay-hearings-day-11/