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caitlin, across the room in the prosecution s camp. and behind him the whole time, his girls, margaret and martha. they were sisters. they loved one another. they helped one another. and that s been the biggest, to me, the sadness that everything that kathleen wanted to make happen and did happen as far as the family was torn asunder. reporter: michael s story is one he says those closest to him have known for years. that information reporter: a story his lawyers were about to present to the jury. and they had an ace up their sleeve, a moment straight out of perry mason. one that would leave mouths agape in the courtroom. that s a blow poke isn t it? coming up, the alleged coming up, the alleged murder weapon found. what will it reveal? and then they said we have a verdict, your heart stops.
even worse. there was kathleen s daughter, caitlin, across the room in the prosecution s camp. and behind him the whole time, his girls, margaret and martha. they were sisters. they loved one another. they helped one another. and that s been the biggest, to me, the sadness that everything that kathleen wanted to make happen and did happen as far as the family was torn asunder. michael s story is one he says those closest to him have known for years. that information a story his lawyers were about to present to the jury. and they had an ace up their sleeve, a moment straight out of perry mason. one that would leave mouths agape in the courtroom. that s a blow poke isn t it? coming up the alleged murder weapon found.
they loved one another. they helped one another. and that s been the biggest, to me, the sadness that everything that kathleen wanted to make happen and did happen as far as the family was torn asunder. reporter: michael s story is one he says those closest to him have known for years. that information reporter: a story his lawyers were about to present to the jury. and they had an ace up their sleeve, a moment straight out of perry mason. one that would leave mouths agape in the courtroom. that s a blow poke isn t it? coming up, the alleged murder weapon found. what will it reveal? and then they said we have a verdict, your heart stops. reporter: what had happened if you look around the whole world s coming together now
made a stunning discovery in the peterson s basement. he immediately runs up to margaret who was at the house and said, margaret, i think i i i think i found the blowpoke. reporter: the film crew following michael s team for their documentary, the staircase, was there the day it happened. and they look at it. and that s the blowpoke hidden in the corner sort of buried behind something, covered with cobwebs, dirt, bugs, everything, hadn t obviously must have been there for years. how did they miss that, ron? that s a blow poke isn t it? reporter: in court, the defense played the moment for all it was worth. it appears to be. reporter: getting the lead detective to agree that there was no evidence at all that the petersons blowpoke was used to commit a savage crime. see any dents in there? even like a tiny little indentation? it doesn t appear to have any dents in it. that was the blowpoke. well, if it is, then what was the murder weapon? reporter: lawy