DEATH BY TALONS

<p><strong>An Outrageous Theory For Murder!</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>On December 9 2001 Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase </strong>in her Durham NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the house. </p><p>The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case capturing media attention across the globe.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Police zeroed in </strong>on Kathleen's husband Michael Peterson and charged him with murder. </p><p>But Was It The Truth? </p><p><br></p><p><strong>A neighbor</strong> Larry Pollard came up with an alternative killer; he 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 and bleeding to death. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>When the media heard</strong> about his theory Larry was mocked. And Michael was convicted.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Now twenty years later author Tiddy Smith explores Pollard's theory and questions whether law enforcement ignored or even hid evidence to convict Michael Peterson. And was an owl in fact the real killer?</strong></p>