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The back stairs, the prosecution called the state s blood pattern expert, duane deaver. he told the jury with certainty that kathleen peterson had been beaten to death. he testified the droplet pattern high up the walls was just what you d expect to see with a weapon rising, striking, and casting off blood with each new blow. and i believe there is a minimum of four blows that have occurred in this, uh in this scene. what s more, deaver testified, this blood stain was found on the inside of peterson s shorts. he d done tests that he says proved that the only way it could have gotten there was if peterson had been standing over his wife, beating her. and the individual wearing these pants at time of that impact was in close proximity to the source of blood when it was impacted. i remember the jurors were captivated by his testimony. um, and it all seemed to make perfect sense. then there was all that dried blood the emts noticed around ....
And if you saw all this blood, why didn t you say something at the time to someone? he is certain elizabeth ratliff died of a stroke. as for how his wife, kathleen, died years later, michael can t say for sure. but he thinks his first instinct was the right one. i guess maybe i m the last person to believe it. i think she fell down the stairs. i don t know. michael believes alcohol must have played a role in her fall, and even though her blood alcohol levels weren t off the charts, he says, there may have been another contributing factor. a few months before her death, she d suffered an injury diving into their swimming pool. and her doctor put her on several prescription meds. do you remember her being wobbly in the weeks that followed? oh, my god, yeah. she had to wear a neck brace. she they put her on percocet to begin with. then they brought valium. she was on flexeril which is, apparently, a muscle relaxant oh yeah. she was in a great deal of pain all the time. for ....
no, she s not conscious. i knew she was dying. i mean, i d seen enough of that in vietnam. i mean, i knew she was dying. please, get somebody here right away. please! okay, somebody s dispatching the ambulance. send the ems right away, right away, right away. called them again. how but apparently it s only, like, 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 in blood? the answer would be in the eye of the beholder. what a husband called an accident an investigator would see very differently. i ve seen falls. i ve had family members fall. and to me, it did not look anywhere like a fall. the chief of police had e-mailed a couple weeks before and said you don t know how much morale is done to the police department. so you understand them giving ....
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. ....
Exaggerating. when candace finally got inside, she says, michael brought her to the back staircase where it happened. my sister s blood is washed in pools up against the wall. i mean, her blood was everywhere. the image would be seared in her mind. it didn t look right. she couldn t go there. i still wanted to believe it was an accident. i didn t want to think something horrible happened. but all that blood, up the walls, could it all be from a fall down the stairs? and that s precisely what was gnawing at detective holland. i ve seen falls. um i ve had family members fall and to me it did not look anywhere like like a fall. something to him seemed off about kathleen s body position, too. her body was definitely not in the position that it would be in if she came to a final resting position after the fall. they processed the scene, photographing the stairwell, documenting the pool of blood and spray up the wall. outside, drops on the walkway and a smear on the front d ....