Word: petersons
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Over the next few days, police questioned Grossberg and Peterson, then released them to the custody of their parents. But after the autopsy was completed on Saturday, Delaware's attorney general announced that the couple were being charged with first-degree murder and that the state would seek the death penalty (murdering a child under 14 is a capital offense in Delaware). Grossberg surrendered and was held without bail and ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation...
...Peterson, though, hid out for a few days with his parents, who are divorced, before turning himself in last Thursday morning. His lawyer, Joseph Hurley, had announced this ahead of time, and a huge crowd of reporters and onlookers greeted Peterson. Someone jeered, "Baby killer!" and Peterson's distraught mother cried, "I want to go with him! I want to go with...
...week, Hurley asked for sympathy for his client. He said that when they met for the first time, Peterson "was full of twitches, he had an uncontrollable nervous laughter, his face was flushing, his voice was trembling. He's a very scared kid." Earlier Hurley said that Peterson had not expressed any sorrow over the death of the child. Hurley also defended the parents' harboring a fugitive and reported that Peterson's mother, hearing her son might face the death penalty, wanted him to flee the country. She thought of Iraq or Syria as his havens since they...
...could two secure, educated 18-year-olds convince themselves that this was the best of all alternatives? And if indeed they did crack the baby's skull, what possessed them to do so? To understand all is to forgive all, the old saying goes. Understanding Grossberg and Peterson seems a long...
About the time most prospective parents are obsessing over what color to paint the nursery, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. were acquiring a gray garbage bag with yellow drawstrings and a map of Newark, Delaware, to help them find a Comfort Inn off the highway, where birth and death could come and go in a moment. Was there ever a second when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear...