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Testimony on Wednesday morning in the murder trial of ex-cop Drew Peterson is expected to focus again on the discovery of third wife Kathleen Savio's body in the bathtub in her Bolingbrook home.

Almost five years after the disappearance of his fourth wife, former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson will go on trial Tuesday for the murder of his third wife.

Jury selection is to begin Monday in Drew Peterson's long-delayed murder trial, where prosecutors want the former suburban Chicago police officer's wives - one he's charged with slaying and another who has disappeared - to effectively testify from their graves through friends and relatives about his threatening to kill them....

An attorney testified that the fourth wife of former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson talked about extorting money from her husband just days before she vanished in 2007.

One of Drew Peterson's former wives was found dead, another went missing, and yet the former police sergeant had steadfastly – some say brashly – maintained his innocence in the face of suspicions by police and the victims' families.