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Reporter: michael peterson says he was certain that his wife, kathleen s death had been a terrible accident. a slip and fall down their back staircase after a night of drinking but as days passed, he started to realize that not only did police think kathleen s death was a case of murder, but also that he was the prime suspect. well, that s just nonsense, and i wasn t worried because when you re innocent, well, nothing can happen reporter: but it was hardly nonsense to detective holland of the durham police department. from the start, he was investigating not an accident but what he believed was a suspicious death and there were good reasons, he felt, to take a close look at michael peterson reasons, he says, that had nothing to do with peterson s very public criticism of the police he may have had some issues with with the p.d you know, i don t ....
Somebody s at the bottom of the stairs your automatic response is, well, she fell down the stairs detective art holland was called to the cedar street mansion in the wee hours we first spoke to him more than a decade ago so first officers had already arrived at the peterson house? right first officers arrived ems were arrived. reporter: the medical examiner was called in, too. 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 reporter: by dawn, news of kathleen s fall started rippling through the family details were still vague when family members reached michael s girls, margaret and martha, at college. she said um something s happened. your mom has fallen down the stairs you know it was an accident. you know, you should come home reporter: by the time ....