January 25, 2008
By Chris Fusco, Dan Rozek and Stefano Esposito
By Chris Fusco, Dan Rozek and Stefano Esposito
Before Drew Peterson could buy a house in 2002 for himself and his 18-year-old girlfriend, Stacy Cales, he needed his estranged wife, Kathleen Savio, to sign off on the deal.
But Savio's signature on the legal document looks radically different from more than a dozen others she had written before she died in 2004, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.
"That's definitely not her signature," Savio's sister, Anna Doman, said after viewing a copy of the one-page power of attorney that Drew Peterson himself notarized. "I know that's not her signature."
A forensic document examiner's analysis suggests Doman could be right.
Ellen Mulcrone Schuetzner, whom the Sun-Times hired to study legal and business papers tied to Peterson and Savio, questioned the "proportions of letterforms, ending strokes, slant, spacing and size of the signature." Schuetzner, however, couldn't reach a definitive conclusion based on the quality and number of documents available to her.
Ellen Mulcrone Schuetzner, whom the Sun-Times hired to study legal and business papers tied to Peterson and Savio, questioned the "proportions of letterforms, ending strokes, slant, spacing and size of the signature." Schuetzner, however, couldn't reach a definitive conclusion based on the quality and number of documents available to her.
"I can't eliminate the possibility that it is or isn't her signature," said Schuetzner, who has nearly 30 years of experience in her field. And she can't tell? Hell I can tell...
Drew Peterson -- a retired Bolingbrook police sergeant -- insisted the signature is valid but referred questions about it to his attorney. Officials with the state police and Will County state's attorney's office declined to comment.
The questions about the signature come as investigators probe Peterson's financial affairs in hopes of finding clues about Savio's death, as well as the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, sources say. Stacy was 18 when she moved into the house at 6 Pheasant Chase Court in Bolingbrook with Drew Peterson...will Morelli and Gary L. Marcolina purjure themselves for this piece of chit?
Savio's death -- once ruled an accidental bathtub drowning -- is being reinvestigated in the wake of Stacy's disappearance. Authorities in November labeled it a "potential homicide." While they haven't named Drew Peterson a suspect in Savio's death, they have said they believe he was involved in Stacy's disappearance.
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