i had written some really negative comments. i d i d been a columnist. and i ve really, really been hammering the police. you you you lit out at the cops, huh? oh many times. reporter: his accusations of the city cops ranged from their failure to get a handle on drug trafficking to only solving a small fraction of crimes. the chief of police had emailed me just a couple days before saying, mike, you don t know how much damage you ve done to the morale in the police department, and all this. if you re seeing the cops giving you and the family some attitude, you think you understand why. that s what i thought. sure. sure. i understood it. yeah. of course, they re pissed at me. [ laughs ] i got i got it. reporter: but, he says, one of his sons read the police s behavior differently. he thought the police were zeroing in on his father from the get-go. he immediately called my brother, his uncle, who is an attorney in reno and said uh uncle bill, kathleen s de
before saying, mike, you don t know how much damage you ve done to the morale in the police department, and all this. if you re seeing the cops giving you and the family some attitude, you think you understand why that s what i thought sure sure i understood it. yeah of course, they re pissed at me. [ laughs ] i got i got it. reporter: but, he says, one of his sons read the police s behavior differently he thought the police were zeroing in on his father from the get-go he immediately called my brother, his uncle, who is an attorney in reno and said uh uncle bill, kathleen s dead. they think mike did it. and my brother got on the phone. and he said, i m representing michael peterson, do not talk to him. reporter: michael s daughters were also worried. they knew very well their father relished being the provocateur and now the police were swarming their house. walking the yard looking under bushes and trees i remember feeling that something was going badly with th
his accusations of the city cops ranged from their failure to get a handle on drug trafficking to only solving a small fraction of crimes. the chief of police had emailed me just a couple days before saying, mike, you don t know how much damage you ve done to the morale in the police department, and all this. if you re seeing the cops giving you and the family some attitude, you think you understand why. that s what i thought. sure. sure. i understood it. yeah. of course, they re pissed at me. [ laughs ] i got i got it. but he says son of his sons read the police s behavior differently. he thought the police were zeroing in on his father from the get-go. he immediately called my brother, his uncle, who is an attorney in reno and said uh uncle bill, kathleen s dead. they think mike did it. and my brother got on the phone. and he said, i m representing michael peterson, do not talk to him. michael s daughters were also worried. they knew very well their father r
thought he knew why. i had written some really negative comments. i d i d been a columnist. and i ve really, really been hammering the police. you you you lit out at the cops, huh? oh many times. reporter: his accusations of the city cops ranged from their failure to get a handle on drug trafficking to only solving a small fraction of crimes. the chief of police had emailed me just a couple days before saying, mike, you don t know how much damage you ve done to the morale in the police department, and all this. if you re seeing the cops giving you and the family some attitude, you think you understand why. that s what i thought. sure. sure. i understood it. yeah. of course, they re pissed at me. [ laughs ] i got i got it. reporter: but, he says, one of his sons read the police s behavior differently. he thought the police were zeroing in on his father from the get-go. he immediately called my brother, his uncle, who is an attorney in reno and said uh uncl
i d i d been a columnist. and i ve really, really been hammering the police. you you you lit out at the cops, huh? oh many times. reporter: his accusations of the city cops ranged from their failure to get a handle on drug trafficking to only solving a small fraction of crimes. the chief of police had emailed me just a couple days before saying, mike, you don t know how much damage you ve done to the morale in the police department, and all this. if you re seeing the cops giving you and the family some attitude, you think you understand why. that s what i thought. sure. sure. i understood it. yeah. of course, they re pissed at me. [ laughs ] i got i got it. reporter: but, he says, one of his sons read the police s behavior differently. he thought the police were zeroing in on his father from the get-go. he immediately called my brother, his uncle, who is an attorney in reno and said uh uncle bill, kathleen s dead. they think mike did it. and my brother g