Drew Peterson

Drew Peterson has been married 4 times and was engaged to a 5th woman.

His first wife, Carol Brown, was his high school sweetheart. They were married from 1974 to 1980, when she divorced him because of his infidelity.

Peterson married his second wife, Victoria Connolly, two years later. Connelly allegedly suffered abuse during this marriage, as did her daughter from a previous marriage. When Peterson again committed adultery, starting an affair with Kathleen Savio, Connelly divorced him. Two months after their 1992 divorce, Peterson married Savio.

Savio, wife number 3, was married to Peterson from 1992 to 2003. Police reports indicate that the police were called to the Peterson 18 times between 2002 and 2004 on domestic disturbance calls. On March 1, 2004, Kathleen Savio's lifeless body was found in an empty bathtub in their home. Although her death was initially ruled an accidental drowning, subsequent investigations in 2007 have indicated that the death was a homicide, and in May of 2009, Peterson was arrested for the murder of Kathleen Savio. At the time of his arrest, Peterson joked that "I guess I should have returned those library books." At the time of this writing he is being held on bail of $20 million for the murder of Kathleen Savio.

Peterson's fourth wife, Stacey Ann Cales, wed him on October 18, 2003, and disappeared almost exactly 4 years later on October 28, 2007. Although Drew Peterson has been a suspect in her disappearance, no charges have been filed.

A little over a year later, in December of 2008, Drew Peterson became engaged to a 23-year-old named Christina Raines. She subsequently moved out of his home a month later, and then back in again. Raines appeared on the Today Show with Peterson, who expressed the desire to marry her "as soon as possible," although his divorce from his missing fourth wife was not yet final. Raines has since moved out of Peterson's home again and claimed the whole thing was a publicity stunt.

Drew Peterson was married four times and engaged a fifth. He was an alleged abuser, is accused of the murder of one wife and suspected by many in the disappearance of another. He is currently single and entitled to the full legal benefits of federal marriage should he choose to marry again.