Peterson was born in 1954 and joined the US Army before becoming a member of the military police. By 1977 he’d left the army and started working as a police officer in Illinois, quickly gaining a good reputation and even being named officer of the year. He married Carol Brown in 1974 and had two sons during their six year marriage. His second wife, Vicki Connolly, divorced him in 1992 after claiming ten years of abuse and that he’d started dating another woman. That woman was Kathleen Savio, an accountant whom Peterson married in 1992. The pair had two sons...read more