Peterson says he was unaware Stacy and Savio contacted same divorce attorney

Drew Peterson says he had no idea that just days before his wife Stacy disappeared she had contacted the same attorney who represented his previous wife in their divorce.

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"I was pretty shocked," Peterson, 54, said Friday when asked for his reaction to the attorney's comments.

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Harry Smith, a Wheaton attorney who represented Peterson's third wife Kathleen Savio, in their divorce, said Friday that Stacy Peterson, 23, called him in late October to inquire about a divorce from her husband of four years, but did not retain his services.

A spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's family said Smith's comments confirm their claim that the mother of two was intent on leaving her husband, who she feared and found to be increasingly controlling.

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"Looking back on it, I wish I would have advised her differently," Pam Bosco said. "Knowing what I know now, I wish I would have advised her to seek immediate help, a safe zone. We have to take these women's cries more seriously. I wish I would have done that."

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Peterson was last heard from Oct. 28, and her husband, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, has been named a suspect in her disappearance. He has not been charged and has said she left him for another man...

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Authorities are also reinvestigating the 2004 death of Savio, 40, who was found drowned in her bathtub just weeks before the couple's divorce settlement was to be finalized. Her death originally was ruled an accident by a coroner's jury, but now authorities have termed it a murder investigation. Peterson has denied any involvement.

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Smith told WLS 890 radio host Roe Conn on Thursday that he had an ominous feeling about Savio's death because she "had reached out in writing and orally, not only to me but to others, talking about a fear that something like this could happen to her."

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When he learned that Stacy Peterson was missing, Smith said he contacted investigators and offered his cooperation. "I had this sort of odd feeling that I'd been through this once before," Smith said on WLS. Smith said Savio had agreed to rush the divorce so Drew could marry Stacy, who was pregnant, because she realized Stacy would not have health insurance unless she was married.