Drew Peterson — the ex-cop currently serving hard time for slaying his third wife, Kathleen Savio — will see his stay behind bars lengthened significantly if his former sister in law, Cassandra Cales (right), gets her way. She used sonar technology to locate what she believes is the body of her sister, Stacy Peterson (left), Drew’s fourth wife, 11 heart-wrenching years after she vanished. Now Cassandra wants to retrieve Stacy’s remains so that her evil husband can be tried for her murder! Read on for details of this shocking turn in the Stacy’s case, and click here for more true crime news….
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Using sonar, Cassandra believes she's located Stacy’s corpse at the bottom of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
The National ENQUIRER has learned that Cassandra hopes recovering Stacy’s body will have cops slapping new charges against her murderous brother-in-law! Prior waterway searches, such as this 2009 probe on the Des Plaines River in Channahon, Ill., failed to find Stacy.
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Peterson remains the prime suspect in 23-year-old Stacy's mysterious disappearance on Oct. 28, 2007. “When I heard they weren’t going to file charges against Drew because they can’t go forward without my sister’s body, my heart broke,” an emotional Cassandra told The ENQUIRER.
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“It’s horrible for me," said Cassandra (left). "They could have resolved this case years ago! They had more evidence that Drew murdered my sister than they had to convict him for killing Kathleen Savio! I know in my gut where Stacy is — and I’m not going to stop until I find her!”
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The mother of two children with Drew, Stacy’s disappearance attracted national headlines because her Bolingbrook, Ill., police-sergeant husband was already a suspect in Kathleen's suspicious death. Her body had been found in a dry bathtub in her home in 2004.
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Although Kathleen's body had extensive bruises and a large gash on her scalp, her death was at first ruled an accidental drowning. But friends and family members of both Kathleen and Stacy claimed the two women had expressed fears Peterson (on motorcycle) would kill them as their relationships soured.
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He'd had ferocious fights with Kathleen before she died. Investigators exhumed her body and, after a second autopsy, changed her cause of death to homicide. In May 2009, Peterson was arrested for Kathleen’s murder. After a 2012 trial, the beast was found guilty and sentenced to 38 years behind bars.
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He appealed the verdict to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing the unfairness of a new statute, dubbed “Drew’s Law,” allowing hearsay evidence where his wives spoke from beyond the grave. One witness,
Rev. Neil Schori, testified how Stacy told him Peterson had asked her to be his alibi in Kathleen’s killing, telling him: “I live with a murderer.”
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Cassandra told The ENQUIRER she knew immediately Peterson was behind Stacy’s death and has conducted her own investigation. “I’ve followed Drew, and my friends have tracked him,” she said. What’s more, Cassandra is also convinced Stacy’s watery grave is the 28-mile long canal just north of Joliet, Ill.
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“I know that’s where he threw my sister. I would sell my soul to dive there right now,” said Cassandra, a former warehouse worker. Desperate to recover Stacy’s body, she cashed out her 401k and spent $80,000 to conduct sonar scans in the canal, which connects the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers.
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Incredibly, she managed to capture images similar to this one of what she expects are Stacy’s remains on two occasions! Now Cassandra has established a page online, “Help Me Bring Stacy Peterson Home,” to raise money for a professional dive. But she’s also blasting investigators for ignoring her investigative lead!
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“Law enforcement never kept me apprised of their so-called ‘ongoing’ investigation,” she fumed. “If I have to sell everything I own to recover my sister’s body, I will! “That’s not justice for me, not justice for Stacy, and definitely not justice for her two children.”
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Peterson will not be a free man anytime soon. The sleazeball wife-killer was convicted for trying to hire an assassin to murder the man who put him behind bars — Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow (left). That caper got him an additional 40 years in the slammer.
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Peterson will not be a free man anytime soon. The sleazeball wife-killer was convicted for trying to hire an assassin to murder the man who put him behind bars — Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow (left). That caper got him an additional 40 years in the slammer.
Using sonar, Cassandra believes she's located Stacy’s corpse at the bottom of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
The National ENQUIRER has learned that Cassandra hopes recovering Stacy’s body will have cops slapping new charges against her murderous brother-in-law! Prior waterway searches, such as this 2009 probe on the Des Plaines River in Channahon, Ill., failed to find Stacy.
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Peterson remains the prime suspect in 23-year-old Stacy's mysterious disappearance on Oct. 28, 2007. “When I heard they weren’t going to file charges against Drew because they can’t go forward without my sister’s body, my heart broke,” an emotional Cassandra told The ENQUIRER.
“It’s horrible for me," said Cassandra (left). "They could have resolved this case years ago! They had more evidence that Drew murdered my sister than they had to convict him for killing Kathleen Savio! I know in my gut where Stacy is — and I’m not going to stop until I find her!”
The mother of two children with Drew, Stacy’s disappearance attracted national headlines because her Bolingbrook, Ill., police-sergeant husband was already a suspect in Kathleen's suspicious death. Her body had been found in a dry bathtub in her home in 2004.
Although Kathleen's body had extensive bruises and a large gash on her scalp, her death was at first ruled an accidental drowning. But friends and family members of both Kathleen and Stacy claimed the two women had expressed fears Peterson (on motorcycle) would kill them as their relationships soured.
He'd had ferocious fights with Kathleen before she died. Investigators exhumed her body and, after a second autopsy, changed her cause of death to homicide. In May 2009, Peterson was arrested for Kathleen’s murder. After a 2012 trial, the beast was found guilty and sentenced to 38 years behind bars.
He appealed the verdict to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing the unfairness of a new statute, dubbed “Drew’s Law,” allowing hearsay evidence where his wives spoke from beyond the grave. One witness,
Rev. Neil Schori, testified how Stacy told him Peterson had asked her to be his alibi in Kathleen’s killing, telling him: “I live with a murderer.”
Cassandra told The ENQUIRER she knew immediately Peterson was behind Stacy’s death and has conducted her own investigation. “I’ve followed Drew, and my friends have tracked him,” she said. What’s more, Cassandra is also convinced Stacy’s watery grave is the 28-mile long canal just north of Joliet, Ill.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“I know that’s where he threw my sister. I would sell my soul to dive there right now,” said Cassandra, a former warehouse worker. Desperate to recover Stacy’s body, she cashed out her 401k and spent $80,000 to conduct sonar scans in the canal, which connects the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers.
Incredibly, she managed to capture images similar to this one of what she expects are Stacy’s remains on two occasions! Now Cassandra has established a page online, “Help Me Bring Stacy Peterson Home,” to raise money for a professional dive. But she’s also blasting investigators for ignoring her investigative lead!
“Law enforcement never kept me apprised of their so-called ‘ongoing’ investigation,” she fumed. “If I have to sell everything I own to recover my sister’s body, I will! “That’s not justice for me, not justice for Stacy, and definitely not justice for her two children.”
Peterson will not be a free man anytime soon. The sleazeball wife-killer was convicted for trying to hire an assassin to murder the man who put him behind bars — Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow (left). That caper got him an additional 40 years in the slammer.
