Created: 6/1/2009 2:45:25 PM 
JOLIET, IL -- There's another new judge in former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson's murder case. Chief Judge Gerald Kinney granted a defense request Monday to replace Judge Carla Alessio-Policandriotes (pahl-ee-KAN'-dree-oh-tihs). The case will now be handled by Judge Stephen White. It was only last month that Alessio-Policandriotes was named to replace another judge, that time at the prosecutor's request. Shortly afterward, she refused to reduce the defendant's $20 million bail. Peterson is charged with first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. The former officer in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook pleaded not guilty. He has been named a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, missing since 2007.
