Drew Peterson was born on January 5, 1954. He graduated from Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois in 1972. He was a cross country runner at Willowbrook High school. After graduated from High School he joined US Army. Before moving to Falls Church, Virginia to train as a military police officer he briefly attended the College of DuPage. Peterson had a 30-year career as a police officer. In 1977, he began working with the Bolingbrook Police Department in Illinois. He was assigned to the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad in 1978 and in 1979; he received a “Police Officer of the Year” award from the department. He married four times, he divorce with two, one disappearing and one got killed. In 2009, Drew Peterson was indicted for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen savior (who died in 2004) and he is convicted in 2012. Currently he is being held at the Will County Adult Detention in Joliet, Illinois.
Peterson’s first wife Carol Brown, they both met in high school. They married in 1974 but divorced in 1980. He married his second wife, Victory Connolly in 1982. She divorced Peterson after he started dating Kathleen Savio. Their divorced was finalized on February 18, 1992. After two moths Peterson married Kathleen Savio on May 3, 1992, but divorced on October 10, 2003. Due to domestic disturbance calls, including calls for returning children late after visitation police were called out 18 times between 2002 and 2004. On March 1, 2004 Kathleen Savio’s body was found in a waterless bathtub. Her death was initially ruled an accidental drowning by a coroner's jury that included a police officer who personally knew Peterson and assured the other jurors that Peterson was 'a good man who would never hurt his wife. However on November 16, 2007 Savio’s body was exhumed and underwent forensic examination. Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City chief medical examiner who conducted the examination at the request of Savio's