CHESTER, Ill. (AP) – Former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson was given an additional 40 years in prison Friday for trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars for killing his third wife.
During his sentencing hearing in Randolph County Circuit Court, Peterson told Judge Richard Brown he never wanted Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow killed and claimed to know all along a fellow inmate was recording their conversations. He added that at the time of the recordings, in November 2014, he was suicidal and didn’t believe he would live to see the scam come to fruition.
“I never did try to have you killed,” Peterson said toward Glasgow. “You can think what you want.”
After the hearing, Glasgow expressed skepticism about Peterson’s statement, calling him “deluded.”
Peterson’s fellow inmate, Antonio “Beast” Smith, wore a wiretap for prosecutors, and during the trial, jurors heard hours of Smith’s recorded conversations with Peterson at Menard Correctional Center. Smith also testified Peterson enlisted him to help kill Glasgow.