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Inmate: Drew Peterson Admitted to Killing Missing Wife

Drew Peterson
Posted at 11:43 PM, May 23, 2016
and last updated 2016-05-23 19:46:11-04

CHESTER, Ill. (AP) - A prison inmate Drew Peterson is accused of enlisting to arrange the killing of a state's attorney says the former suburban Chicago police officer also admitted killing his missing fourth wife.

The Chicago Tribune (trib.in/1TyJpih) reports Antonio Smith testified Monday that the ex-Bolingbrook sergeant referred to Stacy Peterson as a "dead woman" and discussed how to kill Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow.

Peterson has never been charged in Stacy Peterson's disappearance and has maintained his innocence.

He's serving a 38-year sentence in the 2004 death of ex-wife Kathleen Savio in a case that was reopened after Stacy Peterson went missing in 2007.

Peterson has pleaded not guilty in the current case and faces an additional 60 years in prison.