Earlier today it was announced that Drew Peterson, the former cop who is a suspect in his third wife's death and the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, had set up a website to collect donations for his defense.

Peterson stated that the funds collected would be used to hire a private investigator to find Stacey (I hear OJ is still looking for Nicole's killer) and to provide for his four children. Peterson has repeatedly claimed that Stacey left him for another man and said "she's where she wants to be".

But just a few hours after the media carried the story of Peterson's defense fund website, the site is gone and the account suspended by Host Monster. No reason is given.

Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, was found dead in an empty bathtub, her body showed signs of bruising. The death was inexplicably ruled an accidental drowning, although the tub contained no water. Since the disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacey, the Savio case has been re-examined.

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OUNTY �?The former Woodbridge woman charged in the murder of her husband whose body turned up in three suitcases in the Chesapeake Bay in May 2004 was ordered to turn over hair and DNA samples yesterday.

Melanie McGuire, who showed up in Superior Court, New Brunswick, yesterday during a status conference on the case, also has retained a new attorney.

Madison-based attorney, Henry Klingeman, has replaced Michael Pappa, a Hazlet-based attorney who represented Melanie McGuire for about a year before she was charged in June with William T. McGuire's murder.

The petite, 32-year-old registered nurse, who faces a possible death sentence if convicted, was dressed in black slacks and a button-down white

shirt with a ribbon pendant pinned to it. She did not address the court during the hearing.

During a discussion on the scheduling of the next status conference, slated for Sept. 29, she flashed Klingeman a smile.

She arrived in court with her mother and stepfather, Linda and Michael Cappararo of Barnegat.

William McGuire's sister, Cindy Ligosh of Wyckoff, attended the hearing with her son and a family friend. She declined to comment after the hearing.

William McGuire, an NJIT computer analyst, disappeared after he and his wife closed on a $500,000 home in the Asbury section of Franklin Township in Warren County on April 28, 2004. Melanie McGuire alleged in a divorce complaint filed four weeks later that her husband assaulted her following the closing and abruptly left.

William McGuire's car was found parked at the Flamingo Motel in Atlantic City on April 30, 2004.

His body was found in and on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in the couple's matching luggage on May 5, 11 and 16, 2004.

An autopsy by a medical examiner in Virginia showed that William McGuire was shot at least twice, once in the head and once in the chest, with a .38-caliber weapon. Melanie McGuire purchased just such a weapon three days before the murder, authorities said.

John Hagerty, spokesman for the state Division of Criminal Justice, said yesterday that any indictments against others in the case would be handed up "by fall," but he declined to be more specific. Authorities believe others aided Melanie McGuire in dismembering her husband's body and throwing the suitcases into the Chesapeake.

When investigators from the New Jersey State Police and the state Division of Criminal Justice picked up the case from Virginia authorities in September, they found debris among William McGuire's remains that forensics investigators are focusing on.

"We recovered hair from the suitcases and we'd like a sample of the defendant's hair for comparison," Patricia Prezioso, assistant attorney general in the state's Division of Criminal Justice, told Judge Frederick DeVesa in court yesterday.

Among the evidence in the case is a blanket found with William McGuire's remains from Hospital Central Services Cooperative, which supplies Reproductive Medicine Associates, where Melanie McGuire worked, authorities said.