Post by LadyBlue on Nov 13, 2007 13:37:28 GMT -5
A crane was used to hoist Kathleen Savio's casket from a plot at the Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery west of Chicago. Authorities were at the scene supervising, said Charles Pelkie, spokesman for the Will County prosecutor's office.
Savio, who was found dead in her bathtub in 2004, was the third wife of Bolingbrook Police Sgt. Drew Peterson. State's Attorney James Glasgow has said evidence suggests that someone killed Savio and tried to make it look like an accident.
An afternoon autopsy was planned, but results were not expected for days.
After a back hoe and two men with shovels opened the grave, Savio's casket was removed from the ground and placed in a van to take the body for a new autopsy.
The Will County state's attorney's office received permission from a judge on Friday to exhume Savio's body.
[glow=red,2,300]"Quite frankly, in terms of coming up with something different or even of a helpful nature regarding the pathologist process is extremely doubtful," said Dr. Cyril Wecht.
More than three years later, all those injuries would be unidentifiable.[/glow]