S18 Ep37: Death By Talons w/ Tiddy Smith
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
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.
Author Tiddy Smith joins TCT to talk about the case, and why the classic formula of solving a murder doesn't fit here, and how potential corruption ran rampant throughout the justice system in this case!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome |
| 0:22.5 | in to the best in true crime podcasting. |
| 0:24.8 | This is true crime Tuesday. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.9 | I have a very, very interesting show for you folks today. |
| 0:31.7 | I want you to imagine a scenario. |
| 0:33.6 | I want you to imagine a horrific scenario in which you're with your loved one and you're |
| 0:40.5 | having a great night. |
| 0:41.5 | You're celebrating an achievement, a work achievement. |
| 0:45.6 | And in that, you decide to retire for the evening. |
| 0:49.6 | You find your loved one dead, murdered, laying in an extreme pool of blood and you didn't |
| 0:58.5 | do it. |
| 0:59.5 | But you've been accused of doing it. |
| 1:02.0 | You have no idea how this happened. |
| 1:05.2 | You're just strut. |
| 1:07.1 | You're you're prattling your loved one in your arms. |
| 1:10.9 | You can't believe this has happened. |
| 1:12.4 | It's come out of nowhere. |
| 1:15.4 | You don't know what to do. |
| 1:17.2 | And police are on the scene and they're eyeing you up. |
| 1:20.8 | You're the one they're blaming. |
| 1:22.8 | You're the one that's responsible. |
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