Kathleen Savio Picture
Kathleen Savio was the third wife of Drew Peterson, a Chicago police officer who just resigne. Kathleen Savio's body was exhumed recently because the authorities thought she might not have died of accidental drowning in the bathtub after Drew Peterson become the prime suspect for the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. Now the examination by a former New York City chief medical examiner on Savio's body shows her death was a homicide, Fox reported.
Tags:"It is my opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty ... that it is a homicide," former New York City chief medical examiner Michael Baden said. "That is what I would have put on the death certificate."
Baden said signs of struggle including bruises on the hands, chest and abdomen still were fresh with purple discoloration but there were no fractures. Although there were no bruises on her arms, Baden believes she may have drowned by having her head pressed under water.
"I don't think there is any possibility this was an accident," he said. "I don't think there is any evidence this was a suicide."