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Peterson hoped to sell drugs in Mexico after prison

Secret recordings between Drew Peterson and an inmate he's accused of trying to enlist to help kill a prosecutor show that the former suburban Chicago police officer discussed selling drugs in Mexico if he gets out of prison.

Jurors in Peterson's murder-for-hire trial in southern Illinois listened to his conversation with prison informant Antonio Smith. 

Peterson is accused of trying to the arrange the killing of Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow from behind bars after Glasgow helped convict him in 2012 in the death of Peterson's ex-wife Kathleen Savio.

Peterson is currently serving a 38-year sentence, and has pleaded not guilty in the murder-for-hire plot case.

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