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Criminal

Animal Instincts

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead in her home. Her husband Michael Peterson was convicted of her murder. A curious neighbor, a lawyer named Larry Pollard, had a different theory. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:35.0

We're here for the Premier League.

0:38.0

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:41.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:48.1

here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:55.0

Barclay's here for the brim of my hat and about 20 seconds later I felt a scratch on my head and then my hat disappeared.

1:17.0

And so I turned around just to pick up my hat and to note the branch that I had just raised and

1:25.9

there was no branch and there was no hat.

1:27.9

And I actually thought that maybe winds from a storm had lowered a branch and it got caught another tree and maybe

1:36.4

it was up higher so I looked around. There were no trees with branches that were

1:41.1

candidates for that happening. It was a dense woods and for about

1:46.3

six or seven minutes I looked everywhere I possibly could and I couldn't find my hat.

1:50.9

That's Jeff Polish from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He didn't know it at the

1:57.0

time, but he may have just had a brush with death. I'm Phoebe Judge and this is criminal. A woman lying dead on the floor in a pool of her own blood at the bottom of a

2:18.0

staircase. There's blood everywhere, a lot of blood on her hands and feet and splattered up the walls of the

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