Kathleen's Death Was a Homicide

Prosecutors believed it was a hollow fireplace tool called a blow poke, seen here in family photographs. It had been given to kathleen by her sister cantis as a gift. Prosecutors thought peterson had ferreted the blow poke out of the house that night after the attack. If he had, that could explain those blooddrops on the walkway,. Blood dropping from the murder weapon as it was potentially disposed of somewhere outside the dwelling. But the state thought some of its most powerful evidence was what the medical examiner found on the top of kathleen's head, seven terrs to the scalp. The manner of death in this case is homicide.