Peterson said he wanted Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow killed, Smith testified in Peterson’s murder solicitation trial, reports the Chicago Tribune (reg. req.).
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“There’s that guy that’s got… cartel connections”, Peterson told 25-year-old jailhouse informant Antonio Smith, otherwise known as “Beast”, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Peterson, 62, is serving a 38-year sentence and faces another 60 years if convicted in the current case.
Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow put Drew Peterson behind bars for murder.
The recordings show that Peterson also discussed selling drugs in Mexico if he gets out of prison, as well as his fears that Glasgow would also charge him in the death of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, who remains missing. His fourth wife Stacy Peterson continues to be missing.
In the November 16 conversation, Smith asks Peterson if he’s anxious about the assistant state’s attorneys taking over for Glasgow and pursuing charges against Peterson.
While the prosecution has not yet presented its “gotcha” moment to the jury, some evidence was introduced that Peterson knew a plan to kill Glasgow was in progress and apparently supported it. “Why hasn’t Drew Peterson slipped into the past never to be heard from again?” Walker added that Peterson believed the prosecutor’s death would have resulted in a successful appeal of his murder conviction, which was under review by the Illinois Supreme Court.
Peterson has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he enlisted another inmate between September 2013 and December 2014 to help plan the death of the Will County State’s Attorney.
Peterson and Smith then talk about how Glasgow’s murder would be “all over the news” and how investigators would automatically question Peterson “because they’ll have nowhere to go”.
Peterson also said Glasgow is the reason his son, Stephen Peterson, lost his job with the Oak Brook Police Department.
After Peterson’s conviction for murdering his former third wife, James Glasgow reportedly deemed Glasgow both a “thug” and “coward” who made a habit of threatening others “because he had a gun and a badge”.
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Jurors were provided with transcripts of what Peterson was supposedly telling Smith but prosecutors have yet to reveal who produced the transcripts or how they figured out what was said on the recordings. Peterson divorced Savio a year before her death. “Based on 36 years of experience in law enforcement, from my listening of the tape, it was clear to me there was going to be my demise”.
