Episode Details

Drew Peterson spent twenty nine years as a police officer in Bolingbrook, Illinois. He wore a badge. He knew the law. He knew exactly how investigations worked.

In October 2007, his fourth wife Stacy Peterson vanished without trace. She was twenty three years old. Drew Peterson told police she had left him for another man. Nobody who knew Stacy believed him.

As investigators began looking more closely at Stacy's disappearance, they started looking more closely at something else. The 2004 death of Kathleen Savio — Drew Peterson's third wife — who had been found dead in a dry bathtub and ruled an accidental drowning. With Stacy now missing, that ruling began to look very different.

Kathleen's body was exhumed. The cause of death was reclassified as homicide. And the former police officer who had walked the corridors of power in his own department found himself on the other side of the law.

In 2012 Drew Peterson was convicted of Kathleen Savio's murder and sentenced to thirty eight years in prison. Stacy Peterson has never been found.

This is the story of a man who thought he knew exactly how to get away with it.

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