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The Staircase Murder Trial
S1, EP65 "Sources of Contamination"
Contamination was what Michael Peterson's defense claimed happened at the crime scene after Kathleen was killed; they claimed family and friends were walking all through the area.
S1, EP66 "More Grilling of the Supervisor of Evidence Technicians"
It was back to the blood stains in the stairwell for jurors; The State contended that this along with other key crime scene evidence proved that she died in a fatal beating to the back of her head and not in a fall.
S1, EP67 "Critiquing the Investigator's Reports"
A senior crime scene investigator tells the jury he never saves his notes; Eric Campen led the investigative unit of evidence technicians who processed the area where Kathleen Peterson was found, and the Defense nitpicks his final report; Campen defends his work to jurors, and breaks down his methods and procedures.
S1, EP68 "Uncovering Footprints and Blood Throughout the Home"
The senior crime scene investigator said that police tried to take notice of any clues as to whether Michael Peterson attempted to mislead their investigation; the testing uncovered footprints and blood evidence leading to the other room.
S1, EP69 "From Rookie Technician to Fingerprint Expert"
A rookie crime scene technician testifies; Angela Ashby has only three months of experience under her belt when she is called to the home where Kathleen Peterson is found dead.
S1, EP70 "Latent Print Examination"
A fingerprint expert explains to jurors her process in examining a wine bottle and wine glasses that were found near the scene where Kathleen was found dead; the defense contends that a night of drinking led to Kathleen falling down some stairs in their home, thus killing her; Joyce Petzka testifies that the only fingerprints found on the two wine glasses and wine bottle on the kitchen counter belong to the defendant, Michael.
S1, EP71 "Fingerprints and DNA Analysis"
Prosecutors claim Michael Peterson killed his wife, Kathleen and call in a forensic serologist to testify; Suzi Barker does forensic examinations on key pieces of crime scene evidence looking for any and all traces of blood.
S1, EP72 "The Forensic Serologists"
The State got into the weeds of the test results on the DNA found on evidence linked to the death of Kathleen Peterson; back-to-back forensic serologists took the stand; jurors heard more about the many bloodstains, smears and blood spatter.
S1, EP73 "Hair and Fiber Evidence"
Prosecutors turn the chapter in this trial; the focus is now on the forensic analysis done by local and state investigators; one of the investigators testifies; after investigators scoured the 11,000-square-foot mansion they walked away with more than 70 pieces of potential criminal evidence.
S1, EP74 "The Weather Report"
A forensic meteorologist took the stand; the prosecution called him in to testify about his analysis of the weather the day Kathleen Peterson died; prosecutors believed it would have been too cold for Michael Peterson to comfortably stay outside.
S1, EP75 "The Medical Examiner Recalls"
One of the State's key witnesses took the stand for prosecutors; Dr. Kenneth Snell was the medical examiner who arrived at the crime scene hours after Kathleen died; Dr. Kenneth then oversaw the autopsy of her remains.
S1, EP76 "Pending On Manner Of Death"
The medical examiner explains his initial observations about the death of Kathleen Peterson; Dr. Kenneth Snell recalls reaching a different opinion about the cause of Kathleen's death when he took a close-up look at her wounds at the morgue.
S1, EP77 "Addendum to the Doctor's Report"
Michael Peterson's lead attorney quizzes the medical examiner during cross-examination; Dr. Kenneth Snell initially claims Kathleen Peterson died in an accident, but he makes an addendum to his report after the autopsy.
S1, EP78 "Computer Evidence Into a Secret Life"
The judge rules on the computer evidence that the prosecution wants brought in; on the stand, a digital forensic expert who examined the computer in the Peterson home where Kathleen died.
S1, EP79 "What is a Website?"
Jurors shifted their attention to computer technology; prosecutors brought in a digital forensics expert to testify about emails Michael Peterson sent to a male escort days before his wife, Kathleen, was killed; the state alleged Kathleen.
S1, EP80 "Looking Into Michael Peterson's Home Computer"
The State wanted jurors to get a sense of what Michael Peterson was hiding from his wife, Kathleen, and why he may have killed her to keep his secret from coming out.
S1, EP81 "Extraction From Computer Files"
The Jurors hear about the information that investigators extracted from the Peterson family computer; a digital forensics expert testifying on the stand, uncovered gay porn site visits on his computer and an e-mail correspondence with a male escort.
S1, EP82 "Gay Porn Site and an Email to a Male Escort"
A computer expert told jurors that files were deleted on the defendant's computer just days before Kathleen was found dead; these files included images and website browser links pointing to gay porn.
S1, EP83 "Brad, the Former Male Escort"
A former male escort took the stand; Brent Wolgamott went by the name Brad; he told jurors that three months before Kathleen Peterson died, Michael reached out, agreeing to pay $150 an hour for sex.
S1, EP84 "Secret Life Leads to Murder"
The Defense got its chance to question the former male escort on the stand; Brent Wolgamott testified that he had started exchanging emails with the defendant weeks before Kathleen was found dead; a forensic chemist testified.
S1, EP85 "Hair And Fiber Trace To Blood Analysis"
Jurors heard from a trace evidence expert who examined some of the clothing the defendant had on at the time of Kathleen's death; this was just part of the evidence that told a story or murder.
S1, EP86 "Qualifying the Blood Splatter Expert"
The expert on the stand had to answer questions about his qualifications before he could testify about what he analyzed from the crime scene; the judge allowed both sides to question Agent Duane Deaver about his expertise in bloodstain analysis.
S1, EP87 "Duane Deaver"
The judge qualified the State's witness as an expert in bloodstain pattern analysis; prosecutors brought in Agent Duane Deaver to examine the way Kathleen died based on the physical evidence from the scene.
S1, EP88 "Key Witness Lectures"
The state's blood spatter expert said that when he went to work on this case, he was told Kathleen's death was an accident; the prosecution hoped his testimony would convince the jury that it was not.
S1, EP89 "Breaking down the Blood Evidence"
Agent Duane Deaver tells jurors that he has one simple question to answer in his role in this case; trying to find out if the bloodstain patterns consistent with an accidental fall or not.
S1, EP90 "Explaining the Bloodstain Patterns"
The prosecutors bring in their blood spatter expert who examined evidence linked to Kathleen Peterson's death; agent Duane Deaver reconstructed the crime scene in his examination.
S1, EP91 "Points Of Origin"
The State's blood spatter expert testifies about the bloodstain patterns at the crime scene; agent Duane Deaver is in charge of finding out what caused Kathleen Peterson to bleed to death in the stairwell of her home.
S1, EP92 "Elaborate Blood Spatter Analysis"
Jurors learn about the blood evidence like point of origin, blood transfer and impact stains; on the stand was the state's expert in all this; prosecutors hoped his testimony would help prove their case that Michael killed his wife, Kathleen.
S1, EP93 "More Analysis Of The Bloody Death Scene"
The longest testimony so far in this trial came from the prosecution's key witness about the blood evidence, Agent Duane Deaver, a blood spatter expert.
S1, EP94 "Crime Scene Reconstruction"
The State's blood spatter expert had to convince the judge that his crime scene reconstruction was admissible; the jury was not in the courtroom for this.
S1, EP95 "Expert Testimony For The Judge"
Judge Orlando Hudson needs more details about the crime scene reconstruction done by the State's blood spatter expert; agent Duane Deaver ran a number of tests in his lab that he claimed showed Kathleen's death was a homicide and not an accident.
S1, EP96 "Elaborating On Bloodstain Testing"
The State's blood spatter expert had more questions to answer during a hearing for Judge Orlando Hudson; Duane Deaver, an agent from the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), did experiments trying to show what happened when Kathleen died.
S1, EP97 "Defense Challenges the Expert's Work"
Michael Peterson's defense keep challenging the methods the State's blood spatter expert use to investigate the death of Kathleen Peterson; on the stand was Agent Duane Deaver who was defending his work in a hearing before Judge Orlando Hudson.
S1, EP98 "Justifying His Crime Scene Recreation"
The long hearing surrounding the State's blood spatter expert was not over yet; agent Duane Deaver worked for the State Bureau of Investigation and was at the center of trial proceedings.
S1, EP99 "Defense Nitpicks the Work of Duane Deaver"
Before the State's blood spatter expert could give more testimony in front of the jury, he first had to testify for the judge; Michael Peterson's defense made a motion to challenge the methodology that Agent Duane Deaver used in his experiments.
S1, EP100 "Evidence Inconsistent With A Fall"
Prosecutors had more questions for their blood spatter expert in a hearing for the judge; during redirect, agent Duane Deaver tried to clarify how he did the lab experiments in his attempt to show how Kathleen Peterson died.
S1, EP101 "Proof a Homicide Occurred"
Jurors heard the conclusions from the State's blood spatter expert; agent Duane Deaver did experiments based on the blood evidence in this case; he alleged that Kathleen Peterson was beaten to death and left to die at the bottom of her staircase.
S1, EP102 "The Staircase Story of Murder"
The prosecution's expert used photos and visual exhibits to try to show the jury how he came to his conclusions; agent Duane Deaver walked them through the experiments he did while investigating the death of Kathleen Peterson.
S1, EP103 "Explaining His Crime Scene Analysis"
The State's blood spatter expert tried to make clear that he wanted to come to his own conclusion about Kathleen Peterson's death; agent Duane Deaver had been explaining the experiments he did during the investigation.
S1, EP104 "Testing for Murder"
The State's blood spatter expert pointed out the sharp tool that he claimed led to the impact blood spatter found in the area where Kathleen Peterson was discovered; this was the first time Agent Duane Deaver tied the alleged murder of Kathleen.
S1, EP64 "Crime Scene Analysis"
Michael Peterson's defense team begins its cross-examination of the senior crime scene technician on the stand; the defense tries to pick apart the testimony of Eric Campen; lead defense attorney David Rudolf raises the notion that two investigators contradicted each other on how blood evidence testing was done.
S1, EP63 "Following the Blood Trail"
Crime scene technicians track Michael Peterson's movements throughout the house by focusing on the bloody footprints left after his wife, Kathleen, passed away; luminol to follow the blood trail and smear at and near her body.
S1, EP62 "Eric Campen"
The supervisor in charge of evidence technicians for the city of Durham testifies; Eric Campen tells jurors that he used luminol in the stairwell where Kathleen Peterson was found dead.
S1, EP61 "Luminol Testing"
Jurors learn more details about those early hours after Kathleen Peterson's body was found and how police investigated the area where she died; Eric Campen, a crime scene investigator, broke down the use and importance of luminol.
S1, EP60 "From Accident to Suspicion to Homicide"
Law enforcement used the term suspicious in connection to Kathleen Peterson's death even before declaring it a homicide.
S1, EP59 "Standing Behind His Work"
The lead crime scene technician who processed Michael and Kathleen Peterson's home broke down the initial stages of the homicide investigation into Kathleen's death; he had been on the stand for four days telling jurors about.
S1, EP58 "Long Cross-Examination Wraps Up"
The long cross-examination of the crime scene technician wraps up on his fourth consecutive day on the stand; Dan George collects the evidence that police used to accuse Peterson of killing his wife in their home; the defense raises the notion that first responders disturbed the scene where Kathleen died; George testifies that he did not take any photographs at the house, but he did videotape the crime scene.
S1, EP57 "Blood Evidence and Cross-Contamination"
Michael Peterson's defense team keeps drilling the lead crime scene technician on the witness stand; the State argues that even a bad, slip-and-fall down a flight of stairs could not have produced as much blood as police said was at the scene.
S1, EP56 "Not Everything Was Collected as Evidence"
The lead crime scene technician admitted on the stand that his team did not collect and process all the pieces of evidence from the crime scene, which included the bloody towels that were underneath Kathleen Peterson's head.
S1, EP55 "Scrutinizing the Police's Investigation"
The evidence-gathering techniques of the police were under the microscope during this cross-examination; for the third consecutive day on the stand, lead crime scene technician, Dan George.
S1, EP54 "Nitpicking Police's Work At The Crime Scene"
The crime scene technician in charge of collecting and processing evidence in the death of Kathleen Peterson testifies that he noticed blood smeared and wiped on the steps of the staircase.
S1, EP53 "Poking Holes In The Investigator's Report"
Michael Peterson's defense shows jurors that police messed up the early part of their investigation; the Defense claims these mistakes happened when police treated the death of Kathleen as a homicide.
S1, EP52 "Calling Out the Investigator's Work"
The Defense keeps drilling the lead crime scene investigator in this case; Dan George was in charge of collecting and processing evidence.
S1, EP51 "Lead Technician Faces Cross-Examination"
Dan George, who processed the area where Kathleen Peterson died, is now under cross-examination; Michael Peterson's lead attorney breaks down the report about the morning Kathleen was found dead, and accuses George of inconsistent statements.
S1, EP50 "Linking the Physical Clues to Murder"
More physical clues are marked and submitted as evidence for the State's case against Michael Peterson in the death of his wife, Kathleen; the jury sees visual exhibits and graphic sketches as prosecutors trie to prove that Michael killed his wife.
S1, EP49 "Marking and Identifying Key Evidence"
Prosecutors take their time presenting the crime scene evidence that had been collected and processed after Kathleen Peterson's death; for jurors this is a tedious but necessary process of marking, identifying and submitting physical evidence.
S1, EP48 "Introducing All the Physical Evidence Collected"
Investigators collect all of Kathleen Peterson's clothing and accessories that she had on when she died, including a Rolex watch and all the clothes that Michael Peterson had been wearing; jurors see Michael Peterson's sneakers, socks, shorts and a navy blue T-shirt he was wearing the night he claimed he found his wife dead on the floor; Dan George testifies that there were items that he and his team did not take into evidence.
S1, EP47 "Observations of the Crime Scene Technician"
The jury learned more about how a crime scene technician processes and tests for blood and other physical evidence; according to Dan George, police took their time in getting clues at the crime scene.
S1, EP46 "Crime Scene Video"
For the first time in this trial, the jury sees graphic imagery of Kathleen Peterson's body; video from the crime scene played out in court; the prosecution wanted the jurors to see for themselves the evidence that it felt proved this was a homicide.
S1, EP45 "Dan George"
A crime scene technician tells the jury everything he could remember about arriving at the scene and when he began processing it; it didn't take long for the Dan George to conclude that Kathleen Peterson's death wasn't the result of an accident.