Chapter 176 Section 25

"Loving couples make promises like this to each other. ... Mike said he and Catherine were loving couples. His lawyer said the same, just yesterday. But, did he respect her? Did he protect her Did he renounce everything? Did he make Catherine his only? You already know the answer. Yes, the answer to every question here is—'no.'" Freda Blake retraces all the details after the incident.When first responders arrived at the scene, their first thought was "too much blood".And then the cops run into a series of troubles: Mike Peterson won't answer their questions, Ted Peterson won't follow their instructions, Benjamin Menard is a drunk mess... and there's, " The Petersons' three roaming dogs, the Petersons' 10,000-square-foot mansion, and, of course, most importantly, Mrs. Peterson's dead body under the stairs. Here again, the police are in trouble: Mrs. Peterson has clearly Been dead for a while, but according to Mike Peterson's 911 call, she's just dying. That's the reality the police were dealing with at the beginning of this case."

Freda Black said that the defendant blindly accused the police of polluting and changing the scene, but the real "pollution" and "change" did not happen after the arrival of emergency personnel and the police, but before.It is certain that before this, Mike Peterson took off his blood-stained shoes and socks, moved Catherine's body, tried to wipe the blood on the wall, and tried to wash his hands, "Also, the murder weapon. It was that A fire stick? We can't say for sure. What we do know for sure is that he 'disposed' of the murder weapon before the police arrived."

"However, the more important question is, why? Why did he do this? Please don't forget that we are not dealing with an ordinary person, but with a novelist and, according to many, a good A novelist. Mr. Peterson was used to imagining, making up, making up, making up. In this case, he sold his invented stories to the first responders, to the police, to his family and children. Now, And in this courtroom, he's trying to sell you this made-up story through his lawyers." "Is he a distraught husband? Why didn't he give artificial respiration to his dying wife? ... Also, if your wife or husband is lying there bleeding all over the floor, you'd have the time to go online and look it up Email?"

Freda Blake did not forget to thank the jurors before finishing her speech: "You have been with us in this court for three full months. I know that many of you have been affected by this trial. Messed up, all of our lives are messed up. But, to find out the truth, to do justice to Catherine Peterson, it's all worth it, isn't it? Catherine she died He died so tragically, so cruelly, so bloody, so horrible. In this world, no one should die like that, not even a cat or a dog should be beaten to death like this. Can you Imagine the pain and despair she went through before she died? Then you only need to look at the photos of the seven wounds on the top and back of Catherine's head."

That photo was on the shelf next to the Assistant Attorney General. Attorney Janemond Harding followed Freda.Compared with the impassioned voice of the Assistant Attorney General, Janemond Harding's voice was deep and dignified.He took up the topic left by Freda Blake: "You just need to answer one question, a question we asked at the beginning of this trial: Did Catherine die by falling down the stairs or by suffering Was it a man-made blow? Is it an accident or a murder?... If you still don’t know, don’t understand, hesitate, or hesitate about the answer to this question, all you need to do is take a look at this photo.” Refers to the same photo.

"You have all heard the testimony of Dr. Thomas Paulding, who is an authority in the field. He said that two conditions must be met in Catherine's brain tissue to produce red nerve cells: 1. Catherine's brain tissue must have two conditions: Second, this state lasted at least two hours. That is to say, ladies and gentlemen, Catherine lay there unconscious for at least two hours before dying. "Do you believe that the defendant was actually at the pool? I mean, Mr. Peterson hadn't been in the house for at least two hours from the time Catherine was unconscious until she died? It was 51 degrees Fahrenheit. (Equivalent to 10 degrees Celsius - author's note), and there was night fog and it was very humid. In the middle of the night like that, who would sit by the pool and smoke a pipe for two hours in a T-shirt and shorts?"

The Chief Prosecutor took down the photo of Catherine's head wound on the shelf and replaced it with a list of Dr. Deborah Radish's autopsy results, pointing to the "38 traumas, bruises and internal injuries" listed above:" Who is going to fall down the stairs and get 38 wounds on her face, head, hands, arms, wrists and neck — even if she falls twice? That’s absolutely unjustifiable.” All of this The wounds all pointed unmistakably that there should have been a murder weapon in the case, and it didn't matter whether it was a poker or something else, "What matters is that it caused the seven fatal wounds on Catherine's head .”

Next, Janemond Harding talked about the blood in the stairwell.He said that while there were many differences, many disagreements, many inconsistencies between the experts of the prosecution and the defense in interpreting these bloodstain patterns, even though they may draw very different conclusions from the same pattern, But there is one thing that no one can deny: the scene is very "dynamic" and "moving".Yes, the Attorney General said, in that narrow stairwell, in that death trap, there had been fierce struggles, fights, desperate resistance and struggles. "Catherine was hit, Catherine was knocked down, she lay down for a while maybe, bleeding profusely, and then she got up again...

"If Catherine just fell down the stairs, and her husband found her dead, was it necessary to wipe the blood? Who in the world would do that? No one. Unless someone wanted to hide something, or What to cover up.