bad. all this was black and blue. my whole side of my face and all up in here was hit by talons. is that what happened to kathleen peterson? but critics see problems with the idea that an owl attacked kathleen. problems like, why isn t there more of a trail of blood from the front door to the staircase? and wouldn t michael have heard kathleen being attacked? kathleen s sister candace doesn t believe it for an instant. i m supposed to believe an owl ripped her apart? there is no ripping on her arms of an owl s talons. the thing is so ludicrous. and even michael peterson understands the skepticism. whooo done it, huh? oh, it s just awful. but he says the evidence is worth considering. there are feathers. and where were they, in kathleen s hand, so with strands of her hair. with strands of her hair. does that mean an owl did it? i don t know. what do you think? well, it s a much greater possibility than i did it.
all this was black and blue. my whole side of my face and all up in here was hit by talons. reporter: is that what happened to kathleen peterson? but critics see problems with the idea that an owl attacked kathleen. problems like, why isn t there more of a trail of blood from the front door to the staircase? and wouldn t michael have heard kathleen being attacked? kathleen s sister candace doesn t believe it for an instant. i m supposed to believe an owl ripped her apart? there is no ripping on her arms of an owl s talons. the thing is so ludicrous. reporter: and even michael peterson understands the skepticism. whooo done it, huh? oh, it s just awful. reporter: but he says the evidence is worth considering. there are feathers. and where were they, in kathleen s hand, so with strands of her hair. with strands of her hair. does that mean an owl did it? i don t know. what do you think? well, it s a much greater possibility ripe i m surprised to hear that i did
house to get away from the owl. that she did and ran down the stairwell. reporter: and if an owl attacking humans sounds like so much urban legend, don t tell that to byron unger. he owned a company about 20 miles away from the peterson home. he was leaving work with his manager one night when an owl swooped down from the trees and swiped his colleague on the head. this surveillance camera caught the entire freakish event. and if that weren t strange enough, it happened to byron himself just two weeks later. i ve never been hit so hard by something it felt like a baseball bat knocked me probably five feet to the ground. knocked you. on the ground, scattered me on the ground. i was bleeding so bad i thought i lost my eye. reporter: his wife, waiting for him in the car, dialed 9-1-1. they didn t believe my wife. they thought we were crazy when they said, my husband s been attacked by a bird or an owl. show me where on your head you think it got you. the talons got me ri
tangled in the hair were not one but two minute bird feathers. a surprise he says to the detectives and an assistant da watching in the room. i think they were surprised because of the lab had not found the second feather. bill peterson was interested in the results, too. a review of the slides showed what? traces of bird feather? yes. yes. exactly right. in her hair. another very, very compelling fact. reporter: what was most compelling about the idea that an owl attacked kathleen, the supporters thought, was how it accounted for the distinctive lacerations on her scalp. had the three main talons of an owl, like these, caused this bleeding head wound when it swooped down? symmetrical tears. we had an ornithologist who said thyself said these tears are consistent with an owl claw. you think of the characteristic trident like talon claws? yes, and as we all know scalp wounds cause plenty of bleeding. that she panicked. obviously, you d run in the
all this was black and blue. my whole side of my face and all up in here was hit by talons. reporter: is that what happened to kathleen peterson? but critics see problems with the idea that an owl attacked kathleen. problems like, why isn t there more of a trail of blood from the front door to the staircase? and wouldn t michael have heard kathleen being attacked? kathleen s sister candace doesn t believe it for an instant. i m supposed to believe an owl ripped her apart? there is no ripping on her arms of an owl s talons. the thing is so ludicrous. reporter: and even michael peterson understands the skepticism. whooo done it, huh? oh, it s just awful. reporter: but he says the evidence is worth considering. there are feathers. and where were they, in kathleen s hand, so with strands of her hair. with strands of her hair. does that mean an owl did it? i don t know. what do you think? well, it s a much greater possibility ripe i m surprised to hear that i did