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"The trial against former Illinois police sergeant Drew Peterson opens today-in 2009, Peterson was charged with the first-degree murder of his 3rd wife, 40-year-old Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in an empty bathtub back in 2004. Since Savio&amp;#039;s death was initially declared an accident, Peterson was ruled out of the case. However, Savio&amp;#039;s body was reexamined after Peterson&amp;#039;s 4th wife, 23-year-old Stacy Peterson, went missing in 2007, which made Drew Peterson a person of interest in the killing of Kathleen Savio. Peterson and Savio were in the midst of a divorce when she died and apparently, Stacy Peterson was threatening separation from Peterson before her disappearance. Both the divorce and possible separation could&amp;#039;ve been possible murder motives for the retired cop. He remains a suspect in Stacy Peterson&amp;#039;s disappearance and has yet to be charged. Despite Kathleen Savio&amp;#039;s and Stacy Peterson&amp;#039;s physical absences during the upcoming trial, their testimonies will be carried out by witnesses who knew both women. The act of giving a statement on behalf of someone else&amp;#039;s words is branded as heresy, but in 2008, the Supreme Court ruled under Giles v. California (also known as &amp;quot;Drew&amp;#039;s Law&amp;quot;) the murder victim&amp;#039;s (or possibly victims, in Peterson&amp;#039;s case) testimonies made to others can be used in court against the defendant. Joel Brodsky, Peterson&amp;#039;s lawyer, has a problem with the use of &amp;quot;Drew&amp;#039;s Law,&amp;quot; telling The New York Times,&amp;quot;Anybody that&amp;#039;s ever known a bad divorce knows that people say things in divorces that they don&amp;#039;t mean just out of anger. For these things to be used as evidence is troubling.&amp;quot; In January of this year, Lifetime aired the television movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable, which reenacted the turmoil between Savio&amp;#039;s death and Stacy Peterson&amp;#039;s disappearance. The film highlighted the possibility that Drew Peterson relied on his role as a cop to protect himself against murder and kidnapping accusations. Actor Rob Lowe starred as Peterson in the movie, which will air again on Wednesday, August 1st, at 10 PM EST. What do you think will happen during the Drew Peterson trial? Let us in on your thoughts in a comment below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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