KILLER COP SUSPECT DREW PETERSON WANTS OUT

RELEASE?

DIRTY cop Drew Peterson, who is suspected of killing his third and fourth wives has asked to be released from jail while a court considers his case. 

The one time "Police Officer of the Year" award winner's third wife Kathleen Savio was found drowned in a bathtub in their Bollingbrook home and was initially ruled accidental until further examination cast doubt on that. 

Will County State Attorney James Glasgow told the said that after examining evidence in the case, he believed that the death was a "homicide staged to look like an accident.

His fourth wife Stacey Peterson disappeared in October 2007. 

Her body has never been found and Peterson maintains that she called to say she was leaving him for another man.  

Peterson, 57, has been jailed since May 2009, with his bail set at $20 million.

But in a new request filed Monday Peterson’s attorneys argue he should be released on electronic monitoring or placed under house arrest because the appeal delaying his trial was launched last year by prosecutors.

He defense attorney Joel Brodsky said: “It’s not an unreasonable request, given the appeal." 

The Illinois Supreme Court earlier had declined to hear a defense request seeking his release.

Glasgow opposes any effort to release Peterson or lower his bail, his spokesman Charles Pelkie said.