Ex-police officer to be sentenced in murder-for-hire case

(Illinois Department of Corrections via AP, File). 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. At the end of his statement, he looked and addressed Glasgow, saying, “Mr. Glasgow, I didn’t want you killed”. That’s where a jury found Peterson guilty two months ago of hatching a plot from Menard Correctional Center to have Glasgow killed.

In the phone interview, he described Peterson’s conviction as “a miracle” because of the obstacles that arise in proving murder-for-hire schemes.

Peterson apparently clashed with his court-appointed attorney in the case, Lucas Liefer, writing a letter to Randolph County Judge Richard Brown ahead of his sentencing hearing that expressed his unhappiness with Liefer during the week-long trial this spring.

Jurors in May convicted Peterson in a trial that included testimony from his cellmate who wore a wiretap in the investigation.

Peterson is already serving a 38-year sentence in Savio’s death and faces up to 60 more years behind bars.

The 62-year-old Peterson will have a chance at Friday’s sentencing to make a statement.

Peterson was convicted in May of attempting to hire a hitman to kill Glasgow, who led Peterson’s successful prosecution for the murder of Peterson’s wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2013.

Savio’s death was initially deemed accidental.

Peterson was never charged in her disappearance but told the informant he anxious that Glasgow would eventually do so.