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they made us a family. >> not only did she raise these children and have quite an accomplished corporate career, dinner 50, she would do it. >> but, in the wee hours of a winter night. >> i found them at the base of the stairs. >> kathleen peterson, dead. >> was this a fall, or was this murder? >> a mystery we covered for more than a decade comes to a shattering and. >> it did not look like a fall. >> michael peterson, under suspicion, then, a bombshell revelation about another woman from his past. >> this was on the floor, and there was a puddle of blood under the staircase. >> -- a...

It was remarkable. >> reporter: they were stunned. the body was practically intact. >> her fingernail polish was still on. her dress was still perfectly in place. >> reporter: the m.e. took a closer look at the injuries to elizabeth's head. she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp. seven of them. >> seven lacerations. you could -- black: it was amazing -- >> count them. >> it was uncanny. the lacerations were very similar to the ones that had been perpetrated upon kathleen peterson. and in her findings, she made a decision that ms. ratliff had been -- had been murdered. >> reporte...

As the top was pried off elizabeth ratliff's coffin. >> it was so airtight it was hard to use the crank to get the casket to open. once it was raised you could see part of elizabeth ratliff's face and hair. it was remarkable. >> reporter: they were stunned. the body was practically intact. >> her fingernail polish was still on. her dress was still perfectly in place. >> reporter: the m.e. took a closer look at the injuries to elizabeth's head. she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp. seven of them. >> seven lacerations. you could -- black: it was amazing -- >> count them. >> it w...

>> it was so airtight it was hard to use the crank to get the casket to open once it was raised you could see part of elizabeth ratliff's face and hair it was remarkable. >> reporter: they were stunned the body was practically intact. >> her fingernail polish was still on her dress was still perfectly in place. >> reporter: the m.e. took a closer look at the injuries to elizabeth's head she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp seven of them. >> seven lacerations you could -- black: it was amazing -- >> count them. >> it was uncanny. the lacerations were very similar to the ones th...

And hair. it was remarkable. >> they were stunned. the body was practically intact. >> her fingernail polish was still on. her dress was still perfectly in place. >> the m.e. took a closer look at the injuries to elizabeth's head. she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp. seven of them. >> seven lacerations. you could -- >> it was amazing. it was uncanny. the lacerations were very similar to the ones that had been perpetrated upon kathleen peterson. and in her findings, she made a decision that ms. ratliff had been -- had been murdered. >> investigators thought they'd hit pay dirt...