Do healthy women really just drown in their own bathtubs?
Contrary to what you sometimes here about “accidents in the home” and the dangers of the family bathtub, tubs do not pose a significant threat except to the very young and people with seizure-type disorders or people using large amounts of depressant drugs or alcohol. But the idea of the “deadly bathtub” seems to make it a clever staging ground for men who want to secretly kill their wives. There is a case under investigation right now in Illinois. No charges have been filed. But a leading forensic examiner believes that an earlier autopsy of the third wife of Drew Peterson–already under a cloud of suspicion in the mystery disappearance of his fourth and current wife, Stacy–came to mistaken conclusions. At the time, Kathleen Savio’s death was simply passed over as an accidental drowning in the bathtub. Now, it appears that she was murdered. Her death has been officially declared a homicide, following exhumation and a new autopsy (backed up by a third autopsy done at the behest of Sav
