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Earlier. >> the cops were making a big joke out of this. they put a picture of the owl on their on their most wanted list. >> and back then without any forensic "owl" evidence, the defense didn't want to confuse the jurors. so the peterson jury never did hear about an owl theory. but five years into peterson's sentence, the neighbor who was advocating for it was still looking for something to back it up, and sure enough, there it was in the original case notes file. a mention of a feather! >> you have to magnify them 400 times just to see them. >> tim thompson, owner of associated microscopes ...

It had been floated years earlier. >> the cops were making a big joke out of this. they put a picture of the owl on their on their most wanted list. >> reporter: and back then without any forensic "owl" evidence, the defense didn't want to confuse the jurors. so the peterson jury never did hear about an owl theory. but five years into peterson's sentence, the neighbor who was advocating for it was still looking for something to back it up, and sure enough, there it was in the original case notes file. a mention of a feather! >> you have to magnify them 400 times just to see them. >> reporter: ...

Earlier. >> the cops were making a big joke out of this. they put a picture of the owl on their on their most wanted list. >> reporter: and back then without any forensic "owl" evidence, the defense didn't want to confuse the jurors. so the peterson jury never did hear about an owl theory. but five years into peterson's sentence, the neighbor who was advocating for it was still looking for something to back it up, and sure enough, there it was in the original case notes file. a mention of a feather! >> you have to magnify them 400 times just to see them. >> reporter: tim thompson, owner of ass...

Her scalp. >> reporter: bleeding, kathleen leaves drops on the walk and a smear on the door as she struggles into the house, getting only as far as the staircase where she joins the defense's depiction of falling, passing out, coming to, and rising again only to fall for the final time. the owl theory was not completely new. it had been floated years earlier. >> the cops were making a big joke out of this. they put a picture of the owl on their on their most wanted list. >> reporter: and back then without any forensic "owl" evidence, the defense didn't want to confuse the jurors. so the peters...

They put a picture of the owl on their on their most wanted list. >> reporter: and back then without any forensic "owl" evidence, the defense didn't want to confuse the jurors. so the peterson jury never did hear about an owl theory. but five years into peterson's sentence, the neighbor who was advocating for it was still looking for something to back it up, and sure enough, there it was in the original case notes file. a mention of a feather! >> you have to magnify them 400 times just to see them. >> reporter: tim thompson, owner of associated microscopes , was asked by the neighbor to examin...