On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Kathleen's scalp was laced with deep incisions and her blood strewn from outside to inside the house. The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case, capturing media attention across the globe. While police zeroed in on Michael Peterson, the husband, and charged him with murder, a neighbor, Larry Pollard, claimed an owl had attacked Kathleen outside her house. He said it sliced her scalp with its fierce talons and caused her to run inside, collapsing at the stairwell, bleeding to death. It was an outrageous theory. Larry was mocked and Michael imprisoned. Now, twenty years after the unusual death, questions remain. Did an owl kill Kathleen? How much do North Carolina's authorities actually know?
- | Author: Tiddy Smith
- | Publisher: Wildblue Press
- | Publication Date: Mar 14, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 306 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1957288612
- | ISBN-13: 9781957288611
