The staircase

When Kathleen Peterson was found covered in blood at the bottom of her stairs in 2001, police believed she had been beaten to death by her husband Michael ...

"I was doing what I think I was sworn to do as an attorney, as a special prosecutor, as a neighbour, as a Christian, and I was hot on the trail," Pollard said. "I was like a bird dog, literally, except I was hunting for owls." "It's a lot more plausible that the owl did it than I did it," he told 60 Minutes. "In my opinion, the bird hit, realised that it had made a mistake and it went flying away into the night," he explained. "I brought this to the attention of the authorities right from the very beginning but they didn't want to hear it," he said. "The wounds that I was shown … I really came to the conclusion this was an attack by a wild bird of prey outside her residence," the former attorney said.