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>> but soon another bombshell and this one would blow the family apart. two months after christmas the coroner released the results of the official occupies. >> multiple lacerations to the back of her head. like she was bludgeoned to death. severe. long, linear. lacerations. >> not consistent with a fall. >> not consistent with a fall. >> if kathleen's sister candace had been harboring suspicions about what had really happened to her sister, the medical examiner's report was the thing that pushed her over the edge. >> i seven huge lacerations that basically scalped her. it was murder. that one...

Believes happened that night. his scenario of an accidental death has come to be known as the "owl theory." >> he's seen owls in the area. he thought that this was very plausible. he put together this whole theory himself. >> reporter: so here's how the neighbor's theory goes, according to brother bill. kathleen, who has spent the day putting up christmas decorations, goes out front that night while michael is back by the pool. she's checking on her lawn display beneath the trees. >> the owl flew down and landed on kathleen's head and then tore her scalp in a manner that would be consistent wi...

>> somebody's at the bottom of the stairs, you automatically response is she fell down the stairs. >> detective art holland was called to the cedar street mansion in the wee hours, we spoke to him more than a decade ago. >> first officers had already arrived at the peterson house. >> right, first officers arrived, ems arrived. >> the medical examiner was called in. he looked at the victim and said that a fall down the stairs was possible. >> he could see some lacerations or feel some of the lacerations on the back of mrs. peterson's head and he stated that this could be the result of a fall. >...

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Of elizabeth ratliff's coffin. >> it was so air tight, it was hard to use a krask to get the casket open. you could see part of elizabeth ratliff's face 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 to the injuries to elizabeth's head. >> she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp. seven of them. >> seven? >> the lacerations were very sim laor to the ones that had been perpetrated on kathleen peterson in her findings she made a decision ...