The body of killer Drew Peterson’s fourth wife was found at the bottom of an Illinois canal, according to her sister.
Stacy Peterson, the 23-year-old fourth wife of the infamous police officer turned murderer, went missing in 2007 and her body has never been found.
Drew Peterson, serving 38 years for the murder of his third wife, was never charged in her disappearance but always remained the prime suspect. The now 70-year-old killer was 49 when she went missing.
Stacy’s sister Cassandra Cales now claims she has located her body in a canal in Lockport, 56 miles outside of Chicago, and is sharing underwater images of the alleged remains with News Nation.
Cale claims she shared her information with local police and the FBI, but police did not adequately search the channel.
“They were floating on water all the time,” she said. “And when I was there, they wouldn’t even talk to me and treated me like a criminal, and eventually they told me the area had been cleared.”
Stacy Peterson was 23 when she went missing in 2007, and her body was never found
Stacy’s sister Cassandra Cales now claims she found her body in a canal in Lockport, 56 miles outside of Chicago, and is sharing underwater images of the alleged remains.
Drew Peterson, serving 38 years for the murder of his third wife, was never charged in her disappearance but always remained the prime suspect
“It’s someone,” Cales said, adding that she is raising money to find the remains. “Whether it’s my sister or not, they need to be brought home.”
DailyMail.com has contacted the Bolingbrook Police Department and the Illinois State Police for comment on Cales’ claims.
Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police officer, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for the 2004 murder of his third wife Kathleen Savio in 2013.
He and Savio were separated when her body was found in a bathtub; her death was initially ruled an accident, but police reopened the case after Stacy went missing.
Peterson was also convicted in 2016 of plotting to kill the prosecutor who convicted him and sentenced him to an additional 40 years in prison.
When Peterson was previously asked about Stacy’s disappearance, he said he doesn’t know what happened to her, claiming she likely disappeared from the radar on her own.
He claimed: ‘Her mother did the same and disappeared like that. Stacy always loved and admired her mother. So if Stacy did what her mother did. I could believe that all day long.’
In 1998, Stacy’s mother, Christie Marie Cales, was last seen strolling down the street in the Chicago suburb of Blue Island at 4:30 p.m. before she went missing.
Cales said she used sonar technology that revealed an “inverted” human skull with two eye sockets
Stacy and Peterson started dating when Stacy was just a teenager, something Savio (pictured with Peterson) found out about after receiving an anonymous letter in the mail in 2001.
Her boyfriend told authorities that Cales left and never returned, but Stacy’s surviving siblings claim she was murdered.
In an interview with Ashleigh Banfield, Peterson also spoke about Savio, describing her as “tempestuous and combative.”
“Kathy, my third wife, would argue at the snap of her fingers, she just wanted to argue all the time. She was a very, what’s the word? Well, she was very Italian. She was very boisterous, very combative. It had to be her way or not. And I didn’t really tolerate that,” the killer said.
When asked why he wouldn’t confess to his crimes, Peterson said he didn’t want his “children to think he killed their mothers.”
The pair started dating when Stacy was just a teenager, something Savio found out about after receiving an anonymous letter in the mail in 2001.
“She called me and said, ‘I got a letter and it said, he was having an affair and she was a joke,’” Sue Doman, Savio’s sister, told Dateline.
“What really stood out to Kathleen was that (Stacy) was a baby. She said: ‘I don’t understand why he would do this.’
Savio wanted a divorce after the revelation and demanded half of the investment in the house and half of Peterson’s pension.
Peterson’s fourth wife Stacy Peterson (left) disappeared in 2007, four years after his third wife Kathleen Savio (right) was found dead in a bathtub
Savio’s body was exhumed and later ruled a homicide
Peterson is due for parole in 2047 at the age of 93
During his trial, prosecutors alleged that Peterson killed Savio because he feared their impending divorce settlement would wipe him out financially.
When Savio, 40, was found dead, she had a two-inch gash on the back of her head and the bathtub she was in was dry. But police at the time ruled her death an accident, believing she had slipped and fallen.
After Stacy disappeared, authorities became increasingly suspicious of Peterson.
Savio’s body was exhumed and her death was reclassified as a homicide. Peterson was arrested in May 2009.
A friend testified that Savio told her that Peterson once pointed a knife at her and said, “I could kill you and make it look like an accident.”
A former colleague of Peterson’s claimed that the officer offered him $25,000 to hire a hit man to kill Savio, although he never did so.
Peterson is due for parole in 2047 at the age of 93.