Peterson is serving his murder sentence at the maximum security Menard Correctional Center in southern IL.
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Drew Peterson was sentenced to another 40 years in prison Friday for a murder-for-hire scheme against Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow.
Then, while delivering a lengthy, rambling speech declaring he’d been framed for the murder of Kathleen Savio, Peterson delivered a line which would come back to haunt him years later.
After the hearing, Glasgow expressed skepticism about Peterson’s statement, calling him “deluded”. Smith also testified Peterson enlisted him to help kill Glasgow. At the end of his statement, he looked and addressed Glasgow, saying, “Mr. Glasgow, I didn’t want you killed”.
Jurors in May convicted Peterson in a trial that included testimony from his cellmate who wore a wiretap in the investigation.
A former suburban Chicago police officer is facing sentencing after he was convicted in a murder-for-hire case.
Now Peterson, 62, faces a minimum 20-year sentence that won’t begin until he completes his 38-year sentence for the murder of Savio, his third wife. He is scheduled for parole in 2047, but Friday’s sentence must be served consecutively, making it likely Peterson will die in prison.
In May, a jury in Randolph County, Illinois, found Peterson guilty of trying order a hit on a State’s Attorney who helped convict the ex-cop in 2012, ABC’s Chicago station WLS-TV reported.
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Savio’s death was initially deemed accidental. However, Peterson remains the prime suspect, and Glasgow told reporters in May “we never stop reviewing that case”.
