peterson s marriage was murky, investigators thought the story told in blood was becoming clearer. not only was there more of it in the stairwell than detectives would expect to see with a fall, but according to m emts, much of it was dry when they arrived. so you have to wonder when the victim actually goes down those stairs? right, how long she had been there? a blood pattern expert analyzed the scene, when he completed his initial findings, police suspicions were confirmed. he told me that he felt strongly that this was a homicide. just a few days before christmas, michael peterson was charged with the murder of his wife. they had the grand jury, and of course i was indicted, and so i turned myself in. as the officer s book to michael into the county jail, the blended family formed a unified block of support. my mother would just be
it has to be the truth. he had been key in other cases. the newspaper recounted the story of a man who was sent to prison for murder after the lab report suggested a stain on the man s car was the victims blood. it turned out not to be blood. no. no. duane deaver no and didn t disclose it? duane deaver knew that it was not blood and didn t disclose it. that means conviction was overturned. he s innocent of the charge of first-degree murder. and there s more about questionable conduct linked to duane deaver. the newspaper investigation suggested that the methodology behind some of the blood pattern experiments he was involved in was flawed, designed to produce pro prosecution results. like this test. conducted a 2000 and murder case. duane deaver videotaping the experiment, was attempting to match a bloodstain on a shirt of the accused.
walls. the amount of blood, the positioning of the, blood the location of, the blood it was overwhelming. in general terms, the greater the force. to take the jury vividly up the backstairs, the prosecution called the states blood pattern expert dwayne, he told the jury, with, certainty that kathleen peterson had been beaten to death. you testified the chocolate pattern high up the walls was just what you would expect to see with a weapon rising, striking, and casting of blood with each new blow. i believe there is a minimum of four players that have occurred in this. what is more, he testified, this bloodstain was found on the inside of peterson s, shorts he had done tests that he says proves the only way it could have gotten there was if peterson had been standing over his wife beating her. an individual wearing these fans at the time of that impact was in close proximity to the source of blood when it was
please, get somebody her read, wait please. okay, somebody is dispatching an ambulance. calling them again, but apparently only two minutes later but it seemed like forever. a long few minutes, but nothing compared to the many many years of questions that would follow. what had happened on that back staircase, now pooled with blood? the answer would be in the eye of the beholder. coming up when a husband called an accident, an investigator would see very differently. i have seen falls, i ve seen family members fall, and to me it did not look anywhere like a fall. and then the chief of police came a couple days before, said mike the moral of the police, the environment so if you see the cops giving you and the family some attitude, you think you understand why. that is what i thought. when dateline continues. ers.
consistent with a stroke from natural causes? it is consistent. then, there was the mount everest of the case. the forensics. explaining to the jury all of that blood in the peterson stairwell. we call dr. henry lee to the stand. the defense called celebrity doctor henry lee, oj case fame, to show a theatrical fashion just how kathleen had fallen and stay green about, coughing up blood, could have accounted for the spray. walking, move. can shake their head. obviously, the blood all around who was due to her being alive and moving around for some period of time. it didn t have to do with what inflicted the wounds. the blood on his shorts, that could have happened, the defense said, while michael peterson was cradling his wife. the fact that some of the blood was dried when first responders wrapped, well, michael never said he d nucleotide kathleen