Chapter 153 chapter 2

The phone disconnected again. The forest villa is worthy of its name, with ancient trees lining the road and towering branches and leaves, covering the mansions in this rich area, which seem to be invisible. The ambulance sped past Peterson's house, and the ambulance officers Jay Rose and Ron Paige didn't know they had passed until they saw the next family's house number.The two made an emergency U-turn and returned to the big iron gate they had just passed.Jay Ross jumped out of the car and lifted the huge Christmas wreath on the brick pillar to the right—1810, yes.It was 2:48 at this time.

As the ambulance drove down the tree-lined driveway, past the swimming pool, and pulled up in front of the house, Jay Ross couldn't help but gasp.In his memory, he has never performed official duties in such a luxurious mansion.Jie calculated in his heart that this property was worth at least one million dollars, which was far beyond his reach, and he would never be able to earn it in his life. A Mitsubishi Montero sports jeep arrived almost at the same time as them. The second son of the Peterson family, Ted, and his girlfriend, Kristina Tamasetti, got out of the car. They had just returned from a party at a friend's house. Everyone drank a lot.

The big Peterson house was brightly lit and the courtyard door was wide open.Located on the southeastern coast, North Carolina is the warmer zone among the US states, and it is not so cold even on December nights.Jay Rose took out the "Thomas Bag" from the back of the ambulance and handed it to Ron Paige, which contained various medical supplies for falls, from Bondi stickers to splints, and carried a first aid kit by himself. Inside is a set of ECG monitors and a heart pacemaker.Jay Rose has been called in to deal with at least a dozen falls from stairs since he got into this line of work. He knows that such falls are usually accompanied by sprains, dislocations or fractures. Partial or general paralysis or paralysis occurs.

It wasn't until the two of them hurried to the stairwell behind the kitchen on the rich Persian rug that they realized that all these instruments and medicines were useless—"48-year-old white woman" Catherine Hunter Peterson oblique Lying at the foot of the stairs, the upper body is inside the door, the lower body is outside the door, the head is leaning against the right wall, the neck is slightly tilted back, the shoulders are resting on the bottom step of the ladder, the legs are separated, and the breathing has stopped. But what really surprised the two first responders was that there was blood all over the wall of the back stairs and the body of the deceased. In Jay Rose's later words in court: "It looks more like a homicide." The scene." There was a large pool of blood spreading under Catherine's body, the waist of the gray fleece trousers was soaked in blood, her hair was formed into a big bloody lump, and her clothes, trousers and bare soles were splattered with spots. A large roll of tissues was scattered around the body, a pair of socks, a pair of men's sneakers and a pair of women's slippers were also all stained with blood.And, Jay Ross and Ron Paige noticed, the blood was starting to dry.

The back staircase has 18 steps and is about three feet wide, just enough for two people to walk side by side.If you walk from top to bottom, there is a row of handrails against the left wall.The 15 steps above the stairs go straight up and down, and the last three steps turn left in a spiral shape, just ending at the doorway at the bottom of the left wall.A short passage outside the door is the kitchen.There is only one light in the stairwell itself, but if the lights in the upstairs and downstairs passages are turned on, the lighting should be good.On the wall just below the stairs, about 2.5 feet above the landing, is a painting by Tolus Latrick.It can be seen that there are also splashes of blood on the glass of the frame.

Patrolmen Joanne Madonnay and Victor Figurro were the first police officers to arrive on the scene after receiving "Code Five," only about two minutes behind Jay Ross and the others.Juanne looked up and down the stairwell, and before she even had time to exchange opinions with other public officials on the scene, and before she had time to ask Peterson and his son what happened, she called the Homicide Division of the Durham Police Station.Juanne later explained that her first impression of the scene was homicide, despite an emergency message on the police radio saying someone had fallen down the stairs — "because, there was so much blood."

By the time Homicide Detective Dan George arrived at 3:07 a.m., there were three or four cars parked in front of the Peterson home.Dan bypassed the ambulance and patrol cars and parked his car in the backyard.He made a round of phone calls before leaving the police station. He believed that his colleagues would soon follow in their own cars, so he might as well leave the parking space in front for them. Dan George entered through a side door and hurried through the Peterson mansion.He remembered that Juanne had said on the phone that the body was on the back stairs next to the kitchen, maybe just walk down this aisle.At the end of the hallway, just as Dan reached out to push the door open, he caught a glimpse of a large drop of blood on the doorknob.But it was too late, his hand was already on the doorknob.Dan let go immediately—strangely, there was no blood on the glove.It turned out that the drop of blood was dry.

Like Juanne Mai Dongwei, Dan almost only took one look at the stairwell before finalizing the nature of the "accident" in his mind.He immediately ordered the police officers to cordon off the scene, including the entire garden. "The garden is huge," Dan George explained to Juanne. "I checked it on the way here, so remember to prepare some yellow police lines. Also, who called 911?" "Mike Peterson," said Juanne, pointing to the kitchen, where two men, one old and one young, and a young woman sat. Dan frowned. He seemed to have heard the name before.

According to Juanne, two first responders said that when they arrived, they saw Mr. Peterson walking up and down the stairwell, letting out low howls.He was emotional and had blood all over his body.Later, Juanne tried to ask him some questions, such as the deceased's date of birth.But Mr. Peterson seemed completely unable to answer the question. He just gave Juanne a blank look, and then turned his head away again. As he was speaking, Mike Peterson suddenly ran out of the kitchen and headed straight for the stairwell.He was barefoot, wearing only a T-shirt and shorts. The T-shirt was a dark navy blue, but large swathes of blood were still clearly visible.

Ted Peterson followed closely behind, calling out, "Do you want me to go and see her again?" Ted later said he had agreed to go and see his stepmother's card again to comfort his father. Whether Celine is indeed dead.