GUILTY NC - Kathleen Peterson, 48, found dead in her Durham home, 9 Dec 2001

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madeleine said:
his defence team sounded SO ridiculous...why was the scene so bloody?
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Head injury. It happens.

Read this post in this very thread

eve said:
I have always thought that he was guilty because of this. One thing I have learned, though, is that blood from a head injury is like no other. When my brother was found there was blood all over. All over. So much so that we couldn't believe there wasn't foul play. The closet doors were also pulled off the hinges. The ME said he hit his head on the night stand and bled out, probably passed out within 20 minutes. But that twenty minutes produced blood all over the walls and everywhere in the room, and he was alone. Sorry to be graphic. I never would have believed it.

It just dawned on me he died four years ago today. :-(

Eve
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borndem said:
My only injury was a big bruise on my left hip and my ego. No blood, no head injuries, etc., etc. I was also sober... So that has been nagging at me since the very beginning... Kathleen had a lot of head and back injuries from falling down a flight of stairs -- no matter what she had been drinking, if anything... That bothers me.
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I think you were just lucky. Very lucky. It could have been much worse.
Kathleen had a lot of head and back injuries from falling down a flight of stairs
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Head injuries are hallmark causes of death in staircase falls. In this study of accidental deaths from falls down stairs, 80.43% deaths were from head injuries.

Just looking at recent news, and there are many reports of people dying from falls down stairs (and obviously more that are not reported by the media)

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/ne...___died_from_fall_down_stairs__coroner_rules/
http://missoulian.com/news/local/po...cle_cb627ba2-ef12-11e2-8382-0019bb2963f4.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...head-injury-falling-backwards-stairs-bus.html
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...-news/carpet-fitter-dies-after-falling-697462
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253927/Shop-worker-died-tumbling-just-steps-customers.html (not recent, but this poor girl died after falling down only 4 steps!).
 
The wounds are both from a blow poke. Specifically the hooked end.
 
jamiect said:
I will try to reserve judgement until his new trial...but my hinky meter is way up. BTW , how many owl's have attacked since this incident.?
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Here's an owl attack from early this year:

Eagle owl attacks man leaving him in pool of blood in Highlands
25 January 2013 15:58 GMT

A man was left was left lying in a pool of his own blood after his head was ripped open by an eagle owl.

John MacKay, 58, of North Kessock, Inverness-shire, was walking into a masonic club when he suddenly woke up on the floor with a "fountain" of blood pouring from his skull.

Sitting on a nearby van was a two-foot high eagle owl glaring down at him.

Mr MacKay said: "I was just crossing the car park to the clubhouse with some pals and we noticed this eagle owl because it was making rather lot of noise.

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http://news.stv.tv/highlands-island...lood-following-eagle-owl-attack-in-highlands/
 
Harmony2 said:
just jumping off your post with information from the autopsy to ask:

How does the owl theory explain the "fracture with hemorrhage, superior cornu of left thyroid cartilage"? (page 2 of autopsy)
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I am not a doctor, so I am just thinking-out-loud here, with no real knowledge besides from what I have read. So feel free to correct or expand on!

To get the neck injury in the Owl scenario, it could be explained as it would in the fall theory: falling/slipping/passing-out and her neck/head impacting a blunt object - in this case, a step. So in that scenario the head lacerations were from the bird, and the neck injury from the subsequent collapse.
Fractures of the upper thyroid horns are a frequent finding after a variety of neck injuries – resulting from a direct mechanical trauma, e.g. compression of the neck in manual strangulation or ligature strangulation, from blunt injuries (falls or blows against the neck), and sometimes from indirect trauma (whiplash-injuries). Although it is well known that thyroid horns can be broken with relatively little pressure, no quantitative data are available in the literature.​
--Experimental investigations of fractures of the upper thyroid horns, Legal Medicine, Volume 5, Supplement, March 2003, Pages S252–S255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00142-6​

Interestingly she didn't really have any other injuries to her throat, besides the abrasion on the right side.

But here's a case of a man collapsing, at standing height, from heart failure, who fractured both superior cornu of the thyroid cartilage, without any other injuries to the neck area.
A 45-year-old man collapsed at a fairground and died after unsuccessful resuscitation. He showed excoriations at his elbows and right knee, a crush injury at the mentum and his mandibular front teeth were knocked out. The upper parts of the chest and the head showed blue discolouration as a marked sign of congestion due to heart failure. The right coronary artery (RCA) was completely obturated by a 5 cm long post-stenotic thrombus with subsequent myocardial infarction of the lateral part of the left ventricle. Both superior horns of the thyroid cartilage were fractured with surrounding haemorrhage, the skin and muscles of the neck uninjured.​
--Forensic Sci Int. 2006 Jan 27;156(2-3):219-22. Epub 2005 Jul 15. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16024196​
 
redheadedgal said:
no, drew peterson is suspected of killing two wives. one, stacy, has never been found however...
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Actually, Michael Peterson is suspected to have had a hand in the death of another woman...a very very close family friend who also appeared to have died due to an "accidental" fall down stairs at his home. It happened years before he killed Kathleen, when they lived on a military base overseas. The circumstances of the two deaths were almost identical. That one was ruled an accident at the time.
 
Cherry said:
Line up both DRAWINGS from the Autopsy's and you will see this killers signature and weapon, on both. End Of Story.
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Agree Cherry, and the circumstances before and after death, and a whole lot of other factors.

Those girls supplied him with an income which allowed him to leave his first marriage and write, his wives worked while he sat about smoking that dang pipe. It's no wonder he did OK in prison, he didn't have to do much, but go to the gym, swan about like a writer and act self important.

There's a chance he wont go back which annoys me, but will be watching with interest.
 
Mods; I cannot find Michael Petersons new trial info or link. On sev boards I had been asked to provide a link to the headshots of MP's prior GF and his wife's but I didn't have anything but the autopsy pics that only showed the drawing. This documentary must be seen; it does show the blows by the fire poker and her body etc...so graphic be warned.
Owl attack MY EYE
http://documentarystorm.com/the-staircase/

He shouldn't be walking free right now; when is the retrial? :fence:
 
I realize that I'm asking this question very late and that nobody has visited this thread for months, but I hope someone will stop by one day and have an answer:

Was MP's first wife, the one he divorced, ever interviewed? Has she ever publicly spoken about him?

TIA
 
"Before 2015"... Ugh, that can't give a more definite date than that? It's time to get on with this, retry him and (hopefully) lock him back up again!
 
Hi all,

Apologies, I know it's been ages since this thread was active, but have been trying to find a copy of the Ann Christensen letter and it doesn't seem to be online anymore. If a copy exists, or anyone can recall the gist of the letter, would you mind to share it with me?

Thank you in advance for any help.
 
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