NEW INVESTIGATION INTO SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF DREW PETERSON’S EX-WIFE

“He wants me dead!” A terrified Kathleen Savio made that chilling charge in a prophetic request for a protection order against her ex-husband, police Sgt. Drew Peterson – now a suspect in the disappearance of his current wife Stacy.

On March 1, 2004, Kathleen’s lifeless body was found in her bathtub. Her hair was soaked in blood from a head wound. Bruises covered seven other parts of her body. There was no water in the tub. Astonishingly, a coroner’s inquest ruled the death an accidental drowning.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Daniel Spitz, medical examiner in Macomb County, Mich., examined the autopsy and inquest transcript for The ENQUIRER – and was stunned by the ruling.

“People don’t drown in bathtubs,” said Dr. Spitz. “I would have told the police I think this is a homicide. You need to go and investigate this like a homicide.”

In testimony at the inquest, Kathleen’s sister Sue said her sister suffered years of physical abuse at the hands of Peterson – and revealed Kathleen said that “if she would die, it may look like an accident, but it wasn’t.”

At the time of her gruesome death, Kathleen was battling her husband Drew in court over property and financial matters.

“Before my sister was even put in the grave, everything was cleaned out of the house,” Sue testified.

Pick up this week’s ENQUIRER for more details on Kathleen Savio’s death and the disappearance of Stacy Peterson!