they made us a family. not only did she raise these children and have quite an accomplished corporate career, dinner 50, she would do it. but, in the wee hours of a winter night. i found them at the base of the stairs. kathleen peterson, dead. was this a fall, or was this murder? a mystery we covered for more than a decade comes to a shattering and. it did not look like a fall. michael peterson, under suspicion, then, a bombshell revelation about another woman from his past. this was on the floor, and there was a puddle of blood under the staircase. appear today the same, way to minnesota shaded with one of the? odds yes, what are the odds? a trial, one expert this is the scene. would make a slam dunk case for peterson s guilt. the tourist or captivated by his testimony. but were his dramatic experience legit? it is designed to get a result, does not scientifical. michael peterson on the quest that might finally lead to the truth.
killing 14 students and three staff members at marjorie stone douglas high school. kerry, what do we know at this hour? reporter: well, the families of the victims who have been enduring this really difficult penalty phase where all the information of every minute of every second of what happened have been notified by the court that the jury of 12 has now reached a decision on what the sentence will be and we expect that sentence will be delivered here at about 10:30. family members have been notified to be ready to go in the courtroom and sit where many of them have been sitting for the last four months. these are the pictures of the 17 victims. the students as well as the staff members who were massacred four years ago. it has been an extremely long journey for what they hope will be some sense of justice. the jury needs to be unanimous. if they are unanimous, it is a decision for death, then it will be up to the death to go forward with that as the actual sentence, but i
very badly compromised because of duane deaver. he was all over the crime scene. there is another important victory for peterson s side. what types of sources did you perform? wow. that s pretty broad. brad, they escort, a centerpiece of the prosecution s case, would it be part of a second trial either the judge set. desperate had been revealed in a surge that was deemed illegal. the search warrant that resulted in the seizure of the computer was bound to be valid. furthermore, that dramatic trial within a trial, about michaels long dead friend in germany, a change in north carolina state black regarding the admissibility of evidence meant a second jury might not hear that story either. we ll escort is gone, the death in germany is gone, expert blood testimony is gone, you re left with the autopsy pictures, the medical examiner s testimony, and maybe the prosecution s theory for a
staff members, unfolded in about a seven-minute period. more than 100 shots fired. it has been extremely difficult for family members, many who you see have gathered here in the courtroom that this 12-member jury will come back with a death sentence and they have had to listen to excruciating details but we should also remember that this 12-member jury has sat here since july looking at autopsy pictures, making a visit to the school building where the shooting happened, seeing the bloodstained walls and the blood dry and smeared on the floor. seeing the pock holes of gun shots. in many ways, going through some really horrific testimony to the point that some jury members have brought to tears as they have listened to what happened that day. the jury began deliberating yesterday. when they began deliberating, they asked for a little bit of a
but i m just thanking god, god showed us all the evidence to convict these men, so i know god, like wanda was saying, we re got this far so i know we re going to get these men. all right. thank y all. thank you, sir. all right. we ve been listening right there. the reactions by ahmaud arbery s parents after what has been a month s long excruciating at moments trial where they have seen, you know, pictures of their child, autopsy pictures of a child that were so hard to watch. let me bring in bernarda once again as well as sarah. bernarda what often gets lost, a final thought, that often gets overlooked, if you will, is the impact on the families, and they have been in this courtroom day