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Down the Back Staircase

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Kathleen Peterson's Death

Kathleen peterson was found dead in her home after being attacked by an owl. Her brother Michael says she fell and passed out, only to fall for the final time. A neighbor on cedar street came up with a theory that kathleen's death was accidental. The defence didn't want to confuse the jury so they never heard about it. But five years into michaelPeterson’s sentence, his neighbour discovered evidence of what he believed had happened - two minute bird feather strands tangled in hair. He said: ‘I've never been hit like something just hard by something like a baseball bat... I thought i lost my eye' Two weeks later michael

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