Report: Drew Peterson's Ex-Wife's Family Doubts Her Signature on Legal Document
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The family of former police sergeant Drew Peterson's ex-wife claims that her signature on a legal document that allowed him and his then 18-year-old girlfriend to buy a house is fake, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Kathleen Savio's family questions the signature, which looks different from more than a dozen other signatures she wrote before her death in 2004.
Peterson needed Savio's signature to allow him to purchase a house in 2002 for himself and Stacy Cales. Peterson later married Cales, his fourth wife who was reported missing on Oct. 29 after she failed to show up at a friend's house.
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Peterson, a suspect in his wife's disappearance, denies any involvement and claims that she left him for another man.
Savio's 2004 death was ruled accidental after she was found in a waterless bathtub. Authorities reopened the investigation and exhumed her body for a second autopsy after the initial cause of death came under question.
Savio's family says the signature on documents to sign away her share of Drew Peterson's home were forged.
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"That's definitely not her signature," Anna Doman, Savio's sister told the Sun-Times after reviewing the signature. "I know that's not her signature."
Peterson backs up the validity of the signature and referred additional questions to his attorney.
"If it was a forgery, she had ample time to have her and her lawyer object and make an issue of it," said Peterson's lawyer, Joel Brodsky. "Obviously it could have been done better, but I don't know that it's anything untoward."
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