New Judge Assigned to Drew Peterson Murder Case

Published January 14, 2015

There's another new judge in former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson's murder case.

Chief Judge Gerald Kinney granted a defense request Monday to replace Judge Carla Alessio-Policandriotes. The case will now be handled by Judge Stephen White.

It was only last month that Alessio-Policandriotes was named to replace another judge, that time at the prosecutor's request. Shortly afterward, she refused to reduce the defendant's $20 million bail.

Peterson is charged with first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

The former officer in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook pleaded not guilty. He has been named a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, missing since 2007.

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