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Peterson Heads For Another Joint, Now Locked Up In Menard Prison

Drew Peterson was on the move again Thursday and is in another prison.

 

Drew Peterson wasn't one to be tied down, managing to marry four times in 29 years. And even now that he's been packed off to prison, he's still a rambling man.

Peterson, 59, was transferred to his third prison since he was sentenced to serve 38 years a mere seven days ago.

Peterson was whisked from the Will County jail to the Northern Reception and Classification Center on the grounds of Stateville prison the day after he was sentenced by Judge Edward Burmila. Ordinary inmates wait for the weekly bus to Stateville, but Drew Peterson is apparently no ordinary inmate, as the Will County Sheriff's Department set up a special trip to get him out quickly.

Then at Stateville, where it takes an average of three weeks to two months before a prisoner is classified and transferred to a facility, Peterson was taken away to Pontiac Correctional Center in a matter of hours.

It's unlikely Peterson had time to make many friends at Pontiac, as he was transferred to Menard Correctional Center today, confirmed Stacey Solano, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Downstate Menard, a 135-year-old prison on the banks of the Mississippi River, is about 320 miles from Peterson's former home in Bolingbrook, where he served for nearly 30 years as a police officer.

Peterson abruptly quit the police department after his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, mysteriously vanished in October 2007. A year and a half later, Peterson was arrested and jailed on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

Savio had been found drowned in a dry bathtub in March 2004. Until Stacy Peterson disappeared, the Illinois State Police insisted Savio's death was nothing more than a freak bathtub accident.

Peterson was found guilty of Savio's murder in September following a five week trial.

Solano said she could not comment on the reasons for Peterson's move to Menard due to safety and security reasons.

Peterson will be sharing his new home with former Oswego resident Christopher Vaughn, who executed his wife and three children in June 2007 as part of a plan to start life anew in the Yukon Wilderness.

Vaughn's trial took place at the same time as Peterson's and was held in the courtroom next-door on the fourth floor of the Joliet Courthouse.

Vaughn is pulling a pair of life sentences for the killings, which he tried blaming on his slain wife, Kimberly Vaughn.

One of Peterson's attorney, Joseph "Shark" Lopez, said he had no prior knowledge of the prison switch.

"You can't control IDOC," Lopez said. "IDOC moved him because IDOC wanted to move him. IDOC marches to its own drum."

Lopez said Peterson's new home is a tough place and that there are "more murderers in Menard than anyplace else in the state." But he is confident that Peterson will get along with the other prisoners, who he said were "rooting" for him during his trial.

"They were rooting for him because they think he got the shaft like they did," Lopez said. "It doesn't matter that he was a cop. They thought Drew got screwed."

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Related Topics: Court, Drew Peterson, Jail, Kathleen Savio, Kimberly Vaughn, Menard, Murder, Pontiac, Prison, and christopher vaughn

Rozeeta

6:36 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013

if we can only get Stebic convicted and sent there. It could be coined the Will County Hat Trick!

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jono100

7:08 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013

Lopez your are really a shark...you bottom feeder.

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Watchful Eye

7:39 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013

I have to say, Lopez is a funny guy. First of all, where does he get this idea that there's some kind of bad-boy support group that is rooting for Drew because they think he got the shaft "like they did"? That thought is so out there, it's beyond laughable. Does Lopez have a pipeline into these prisons, from which he gets this bizarre feedback of what the misfits of society think about a wayward ex-cop? Come on.

As long as he plays nice with the other kids, oh I mean murderers, sure, he'll get along just fine with them. Why not? Isn't it special that Joe Lopez, one of the Three Stooges of the Drew Peterson Dream Team, thinks things will be just peachy for Drew because he's an ex-cop, loved by murderers, who think he got the shaft and got screwed. That'll keep his sorry butt out of harm's way for the rest of his days in a hell hole.

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forget me

7:49 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013

maybe he'll be with Rod blago next

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Debi Krause

8:17 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013

Who cares where the old prune murderer ends up! We all will never see his sorry arse in the public again........So long sailor!

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T-Bone

8:23 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013

They will act as if they like him so he trusts them, puts his guard down, and then...BAM! He's done! Good F-ing Luck Punk!

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Ed Arter

9:48 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013

Big Bubba will be smiling at a cop (maybe the one who put him in jail) when it's time for a shower--Hey Drew-buy some soap on a rope.

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Drew

12:40 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Drew is a black belt in hapkido and he is a 5' 11 215 lbs that has military and police experience. It would take a small army to take him, so about forty shines. He won't be in there for long. The supreme court will over rule that Drew Law b.s. and he will be acquitted. In which case he would probably be wise to get out of dodge with his family because someone would want to put a bullet in his head. Preferably that crazy Stacy Peterson sister that appears more tougher than most men.

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Colt45

6:56 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Drew, have you seen him lately? Prob not. if he is 5'11 his time in lockup has shrunk him. He is a sorry escuse of a sub-human.4 yrs in the county jail has not been kind to him. He is broken.He looks frail and sick. My confort is for the rest of his miserable life, he will be behind bars. Now Where is Stacy?

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Shannon

10:49 am on Monday, March 4, 2013

Drew sounds like you happen to maybe like this jerk.Stacy's sister is not crazy unless it's crazy with grief over what this sorry s.o.b. did with her sister.She deserves closure and peace not to mention to know what happened to her sister.The supreme court will NOT over rule Drew's law due to the fact that the witnesses were reliable witnesses.Come on a priest a divorce attorney one is an officer of the court and one is a lamb of God,neither of which would stake their careers or reputations on anything but the truth.But if in some chance of a snowball in hades he does get it overturned you're right someone probably will pick his sorry tail off and it couldn't happen to a nicer wife killer.And as for taking his family with him he will only be taking his kids from Kathleen with him because he will NEVER see Stacy's kids again thank God for that.That is one of the small comforts we can all find in this,that these two small children will never have to live with him again and he won't be able to trash their lives or take them away like he did their mother's.

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Shannon

10:52 am on Monday, March 4, 2013

Also maybe you'd like to keep your racism to yourself as those men will be giving him a blackbelt lesson in whooping that a!And he deserves it too!

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Drew

12:50 am on Friday, April 5, 2013

Point one Shannon Drew is in protective custody. Point two Stacy's and Drew's two small children are being taken care of by the second oldest son Stephen. Point three Shannon, I love being a racist and I am proud of it. Point four Shannon goes back to point one he's in protective custody, he still receives a pension which goes to Stacy's and Drew's kids, point five he receives three square meals a day. The shines will never see him. He will get whatever he needs from the guards regardless. There was no justice. I don't like him, in fact I think he's evil to the core. However, I believe the real justice would've been the stripping of his pension and his execution sentence. Two factors that will never happen. Not to mention most likely no one will ever find out what happen to Stacy Peterson. He will never tell anybody. He want's his kids believe he is martyr. And when he dies his children will believe that, a victim of the justice system. I like your spunk Shannon, I wish there was a happy ending in this. The fact remains this is a very depressing story that should've died from the beginning. No one cares accept for families and friends. And sooner or later this will all be a distant memory.

CCW

5:28 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

ANOTHER Drew Peterson story? Joe, I think you need to see someone about your obsession with Drew. He's gone and nobody cares. Find something else to obsess over.

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Amanda Bowl

6:18 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Drew Peterson got what he deserves, but sick of you Joe and making money over the situation.

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Mo F'n Kena, Son!

7:25 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Daaayyyyuuuummmm. Menard is light work kid! Dat boi need Jacksonville dat where I did my time son! Dat place is real real. Shout out to my bois Pope Skeezy and Howard Von Stein IV. Dem cats be straight wylin in the Joint. Slip and slide...TAKE IT DA HOUSE! HOLLA ATCHA BOI .... SON!

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Tyler LaBee

8:30 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Is that even english?!!!! Mo F'n u must have graduated from BHS. Drew will get it like Jeffrey Dahmer got it!!! Up the poop chute with a broom.

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charles

9:35 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

No Tyler, that's not English. It's humorous sarcasm which is very appropriate for any conversation being had about Drew Peterson

Mo F'n Kena, Son!

8:33 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Chyld please I gots a PHD at Dartmouf! Dahmer? Old boi aint eatin peeps and he clearly aint no fruity booty!

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MidwestGal

9:35 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

What's sad is Stebic will never get caught. Sadder that we have to pay for this scum trash to have food, shelter, clothing and even an education. They'll be the trash we see on prison shows with homemade nasty neck and face tattoos, in the yard in all their sep gangs and homemade knives. HA...rot boys, rot!

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Tyler LaBee

12:17 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

I believe I was talking about Mo F'n Ebonics bs language. Just goes to show you the type of education they get nowadays. Wasn't talking about what dahmer did to people just what he got. Drew will get his just like he should.

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Tyler LaBee

12:24 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

I worked with Kathleen Savio after I got out of the service. She always use to talk about her crazy ex-husband stalking her and threatening her life. She was a nice woman and didn't deserve what happened to her. I met Drew a few times out and about and the guy is an arrogant prick and joked about her death. He should of got life.

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Shannon

11:01 am on Monday, March 4, 2013

Tyler I agree whole heartedly with every last word of that statement.At least Kathleen has now got some sort of justice out of this and my heart goes out to all who knew her.I just hope they nail him on Stacy next.I knew her back in school when she was Stacy Cales.She was a great girl as I'm sure Kathleen was and I'm just sorry they both had to meet their fates at his hands.

Terry Dactyl

2:29 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

Aww no wizz-ay? Mo F'n from Dartmouf!!!??? I ain't finna hear from you since college. We harmless ain't disrespecting nobody. But peep dat new Miley Cyrus CD .

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Gayle Wolcott

5:18 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

Drew needs to head west to that Arizona prison where inmates wear pink... sleep outside in tents and now pay for their meals out of their prison accounts. We need more wardens like that guy here.

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Reality Bytes!

9:11 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

Drew is in General pop but is being heavily guarded. Even in jail, he is a celebrity thanks to Hosebag! Keep leaking info on the 4 nutcases in Joliet Joe, you'll get a cell with your boyfriend Drew yet!!!

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darla black lopez

7:45 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013

Drew use to be a reguar at dennys,he was irragent rude and very conceded. If you crossed his path he had it out for you. I know he gave me tickets all the time because he heard me say to the waitress oh the cowardly lions here refering he looked like the character from the wizzard of oz ! Good luck in menard ! Lol

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boozer mcgee

7:20 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013

someone told me that while Drew Peterson was in Will County Jail, there was a devise that pumped in Oxygen in his cell in order he did not get sick...MORE WASTED TAX DOLLARS!

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darla black lopez

9:30 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013

I heard about the oxygen ting to, the jail doesent have such a great smell. One of the will county sheriffs wife said when her husband comes home the smell of his uniform lingers. So while reg inmates get to live in the wrentching smell drew got privliges of fresh oxygen. He got special treatment even having other guards bring him mcdonalds. The officers stick together even when they feel at odds of a inmates special treatment. Its a brotherhood code of lookin out for each other. Police officers know many of the public don't like them. I see a lot of post here on the patch degrading them. When all there doing is there job. As far as drews special treatment that's over now. Menard is one of the toughest prisons known to hold the toughest criminals out there. Murders are reg there with inmates.

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darla black lopez

9:34 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013

Hey reality bites ! If anyone is leaking info its the public who has general knowlage of the friends of the victims and are friends with many of the officers. Who know the judges wifes ect..... its freedom of speech without threats. !

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darla black lopez

9:40 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013

Also everyone is critsizing how people are talking, educated yourself in culture awareness,each culture has there owns ways speech streetsmart ect.... to each there own. Everyone is unique and expresses themselfs in there own way. There's nothing wrong with ebonics ! It doesent make anyone less educated just cause they choose to speak that way.

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darla black lopez

10:58 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013

Also may I add in 1975 chicago public school system added a requirement class of ebonics. Except everyone for who they are except and lov everyones indivualities !

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Rosemary Wood

2:17 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013

I have sooo waited for this day when this narcissistic, ego-centric, woman-abusing son of a bitch would be behind bars for a very long time. He deserves to rot in hell for what he has done to women throughout his life, and for the fact that he thought it was ok to treat them poorly. Menard is a great place for him, and I am sure that the other residents of this maximum security facility will enjoy his company!

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