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I dont know >> what do you think >> well, its a much greater possibility -- >> reporter: im surprised to hear you saying its not as ludicrous as everybody made it >> no, no, no. i -- because i -- ive seen the photographs. so, is it possible well, certainly its possible. i dont know did an owl do it i cant tell you that. >> reporter: in the summer of 2009, petersons attorney neighbor helped him file a motion requesting a new trial based on the owl theory. but the trial judge dismissed it the owl ...

Will suspected she had been murdered and investigators were focusing hard on her husband michael. this mystery was just getting started. another tale from his past was about to surface a suspicious death too similar to kathleens for investigators to ignore. reporter: in police work, a good tip can make your day and also make your life a lot more complicated. just such a tip came to the desk of the detective working the kathleen peterson case >> i think it was two or three days after kathleens ...

>> id given it to her about ten years prior. thats for sure. and that thanksgiving when i was at her house, the -- i definitely saw it by the fireplace. >> reporter: prosecutors thought peterson had ferreted the blow poke out of the house that night after the attack -- if he had, that could explain those blood drops on the walkway. >> blood dropping from the murder weapon, as it was potentially disposed of somewhere outside the dwelling >> reporter: but the state thought some of its most powerfu...

Clearest thing in the world. >> reporter: but after sitting through the trial, kathleens sister candace thought that the brother-in-law she once admired was both a killer and a liar >> did i ever think he was capable of murdering my sister no did i know hed already found another woman dead at the bottom of a staircase no did i know he lied about his military awards? no hes a writer of fiction, and thats what i found. he makes things up as he goes to suit the situation >> reporter: when the case ...

>> reporter: he was a star witness for the prosecution in the peterson trial, the blood pattern expert who put michael peterson in the staircase bludgeoning his wife, reporter julia sims. you talked to the jurors here in this case, julia how important was the blood expert, deavers testimony >> that blood evidence was critical heres a guy whos been doing this for years for the state look at what his experiment showed its got to be the truth >> reporter: hed been key in other cases, too the newspa...

Mount everest of the case: the forensics, explaining to the jury all that blood in the peterson stairwell >> the defense would call dr. henry lee to the stand >> reporter: the defense called celebrity forensic expert dr. henry lee, of o.j. case fame, to show the jury in theatrical fashion just how kathleen, falling, then staggering about, coughing up blood, could have accounted for the spray. >> an injured person can walking, can move, can shake their head >> obviously, the blood all around was ...

Of double murders or wife murders or the staircase murders, and we couldnt stand up and say, wait a second this wasnt true. >> michael peterson did not testify at his trial, but he did sit down with us to answer questions about all the evidence against him. nothing was off-limits >> i know i did not kill kathleen so at a certain point, you think, well, this is just -- crazy. >> reporter: to understand the case, he says, you have to go back to the very beginning, to the moment police arrived at t...