Investigator defends his work in Drew Peterson murder case
CHICAGO (MCT) — Seeming nervous and his voice at times quaking slightly, the Illinois State Police investigator who prosecutors allege botched the inquiry into Kathleen Savio’s drowning took the witness stand Tuesday to describe and defend his work.
Robert Deel told a prosecutor that he kept an open mind during the 2004 investigation but now considers Savio’s death a slip-and-fall accident based on what he saw in her bathroom that night.
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