New hope Drew Peterson documentary will lead to answers 

From early on in his wife Stacy's disappearance, Drew Peterson passed himself off as a devil-may-care serial marriage victim, unfairly suspected in the death of one wife and the disappearance of another.
Stacy Peterson has now been gone for 10 years - she was last seen on Oct. 28, 2007, and reported missing the following day - and by now even Peterson's son Stephen Peterson has admitted that his father's joking attitude is "not funny anymore."
Even early supporters like his son came to believe that there was no good explanation for the disappearance of Stacy, Drew's fourth wife, and the passing of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in a bathtub in 2004.
Authorities took a new look at Savio's death after Stacy Peterson disappeared. A jury eventually convicted Drew Peterson of Savio's murder, and he was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
Much has happened in the case even since then, with a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision upholding his conviction.
In between, Peterson was also found guilty of trying to arrange a hit on Will County's top prosecutor, adding 40 years to his prison sentence.
As the story unfolded with one bizarre twist after another, Peterson became an infamous national figure who seemed to enjoy the attention he was getting even as he repeatedly proclaimed his innocence. While being sentenced for Savio's murder, he interrupted proceedings with the outburst: " I did not kill Kathleen!"
To mark the 10th anniversary of Stacy Peterson's disappearance, her family planned to gather with friends and family at 2 p.m. Sunday to celebrate her life and raise funds for Team Watters Sonar, a nonprofit volunteer group based outside St. Louis that conducts water searches and recoveries and has assisted in the search for Stacy Peterson, her sister said. Tickets are $15, and the event takes place at the Levy Center in Bolingbrook.
Stacy Peterson's sister Cassandra Cales, a 32-year-old single mother, says she accepted from the beginning that her sister was murdered, but has never given up trying to find her.
"I'm still not stopping," Cales said. "My search will continue until I get the answers and bring Stacy home."
She wants to keep Stacy in the news so that someone who knows something about what happened to her will come forward.
As the case became a national scandal - even spawning a TV movie starring Rob Lowe as Drew Peterson - each person closely involved has had their lives altered forever.

Stacy Peterson

Stacy Peterson was just 23 when she disappeared, 30 years younger than her husband. They had two children together who are now adolescents. She also adopted Drew Peterson's two children with Savio; they are now young adults.
By all accounts, she was in love with Drew when they married. But he soon grew controlling, not letting her talk to her friends, pressuring her to get breast implants and constantly suspecting her of cheating, Cales said. Stacy disappeared the day before she was going to see a divorce attorney.
Illinois State Police named Drew Peterson a suspect in Stacy's disappearance, which remains an active investigation, but he has never been charged in the case, and she has never been found.
Cales said much of her extended family will fly in for the memorial Sunday. She said she still get tips about Stacy that she shares with police, but she said she is frustrated that they won't share any of the details of their investigation with her, citing confidentiality.
"It's just so frustrating," she said. "The law needs to change."

Drew Peterson

Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, called Menard Correctional Center, where he was held, a "living hell." Earlier this year, prison officials had him transferred to a federal prison in Indiana after determining that he was a threat because of the murder-for-hire plot.
In April, he was attacked by another prisoner with a food tray in the chow hall but was not seriously injured, sources said. His son has told the Tribune that, on the phone, Drew remains in good spirits, despite having previously said in court that he was suicidal in prison.
He is eligible for parole in 2081.
Peterson's attorney Steven Greenberg said Friday that he will file a petition for a rehearing before the state Supreme Court, calling the ruling upholding the murder conviction "indefensible and unsupportable."
If the state court rules against him again, they'll take the case to federal court.
Greenberg said of Peterson, "His spirits are good, and he's going to keep fighting because, notwithstanding public opinion, he did not commit the crime and the evidence did not prove it."

Kathleen Savio

Savio was Drew Peterson's third wife and was 38 when she was found dead in a dry bathtub at home in Bolingbrook in 2004, weeks before a scheduled hearing on money and custody matters in their divorce. Peterson at the time said she must have fallen and hit her head, which local police initially accepted.
But after Stacy Peterson disappeared, investigators reopened the case. Savio's body was exhumed, and the coroner ruled her death a homicide, eventually leading to charges against Drew Peterson.
No physical evidence or witnesses linked him directly to the death, but prosecutors used incriminating statements that Savio and Stacy Peterson had told associates that Drew Peterson had made.

James Glasgow

Peterson's third alleged victim was the man who put him behind bars. Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow made the decision to charge Peterson despite criticism that he lacked physical evidence and relied on hearsay testimony.
While Peterson was in jail awaiting trial, police recorded him in phone calls talking about what Glasgow said was an "evil plot" to have the prosecutor killed.
Peterson was convicted of a murder-for-hire plot and sentenced to an additional 40 years in prison, which all but guarantees he'll die behind bars.
Glasgow was unopposed for re-election last year, and is the longest-serving state's attorney in Will County.

Stephen Peterson

Drew Peterson's son was an Oak Brook police officer who lost his job in 2011 for failing to disclose that after Stacy Peterson's disappearance, he hid his father's guns and checks worth more than $200,000.
The younger Peterson's marriage ended, and he moved into the home in Bolingbrook that Drew and Stacy once shared. He now is acting as guardian to Drew and Stacy's two children, and also has looked after Drew's two sons with Savio.
Cassandra Cales objected that Stephen doesn't let her see the children.
Stephen Peterson told the Tribune in February that he had been living on Drew's pension payments until they ended last year. He said the financial pressure since then prompted him to agree to a $10,000 payment to participate in an episode of the Lifetime show, "Monster in My Family."

Peterson told the Tribune he planned to look for work, possibly in law enforcement.