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Monday, Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings said that Stephanie Sloop’s request for an annulment from husband Nathan will have no affect on their murder case against the couple for the death of 4-year-old Ethan Stacy. "It will not hurt our case nor are we considering any changes," Rawlings said. "This is a very predictable move by Mary Corporon," reported the Standard-Examiner. Mary Corporon is Stephanie Sloop’s public defender, and most likely advised Stephanie to file for the annulment from her husband to disassociate herself from Nathan. Both Stephanie and Nathan have been charged with aggravated murder for Stephanie’s son, Ethan...

<p>The Illinois State Police are following up on a lead in rural central Illinois regarding the 2007 disappearance of Stacy Peterson, the fourth wife of former Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson.</p> <p>Police did not provide any more specifics on where they were working, though a release from the police said that a media staging area is being set up near Peoria. There were no additional details available on the nature of the lead they were working on.</p>

Working with new information in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, authorities are set to dig in search of her body Saturday in an area east of Peoria, sources said. Illinois State Police confirmed Saturday that they are currently following a lead in rural central Illinois regarding Peterson’s disappearance and have set up a media staging at a location near Peoria, according to an ISP release. The ISP Investigation team that has been investigating the disappearance and possible homicide of Stacy Peterson is aware of the situation and at the scene, the release said.

b>A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election. Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama. Although hard of hearing, she keeps herself informed by reading newspapers and watching TV at the convent. "I'm encouraged by Senator Obama," she says. "I've never met him, but he seems to be a good man with a good private life. That's the first thing. Then he must be able to govern,"...

Drew Peterson says the the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy, and the mysterious death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, might hamper his love life. “I'm not going to get another date,” he said in an interview this week in his Bolingbrook home. Police have said Drew Peterson is a suspect in the Oct. 28 disappearance of Stacy. And state police have reopened their investigation of Savio's March 2004 death. She was found dead in an empty bathtub; an inquest ruled the death a drowning. » Click to enlarge image Search warrants focus on both physical evidence and a...

State Police are searching for the wife of a southwest suburban Bolingbrook police sergeant. "Because he's one of our officers, we thought it would be better to have an independent agency investigating," Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar said of the state's involvement in the disappearance of Stacey Peterson. It was not clear how long Peterson, the 23-year-old wife of Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, has been missing. She was supposed to help a friend do some painting, but never showed up. Drew Peterson's previous wife, 40-year-old Kathleen Savio, was found dead in the dry bathtub of her Pheasant Chase home in...

he missing wife of a former police sergeant told a clergyman in August that her husband confessed that he killed his former wife and made it look like an accident, according to a report. A source told the Chicago Sun-Times that Peterson also told two other people about her husband's confessions to her about the death of Kathleen Savio, his third ex-wife. Stacy Peterson, a mother of two and Drew Peterson's fourth wife, was reported missing on Oct. 29 by her family after she failed to show up to a friend's house. Drew Peterson is a suspect in her disappearance....

BOLINGBROOK, Illinois (CNN) -- Police are using tracking dogs, airplanes, infrared sensors and volunteers on foot Tuesday to look for a young mother who disappeared nine days ago, leaving her 4- and 2-year-old children behind. Stacy Peterson, 23, has been missing from her suburban Chicago home since October 28. 1 of 2 Friends and relatives of Stacy Peterson, 23, say her disappearance is suspicious. Her husband of four years, Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, 53, reportedly has told police his wife said she was leaving him for another man, and police are not treating the disappearance as a criminal investigation....