the prosecution had insisted throughout the murder weapon used to bludgeon kathleen peterson was the found it. but near the end of the trial, a stunning revelation. >> my heart started pounding. >> peterson's son, clayton, said while fixing his car he'd come across the missing blow poke. it was there all along and the cops had simply missed it. >> here it was in the basement sitting there in the corner covered with dust and cobwebs. clayton ran upstairs to tell his father. >> dad thought that it was a setup and that the police were going to come storming into the house. >> in court the defense played the moment for all it was worth, getting the lead detective to agree that if this was the murder weapon, it was completely intact. >> do you see any dents in there? even like a tiny little indentation? >> it doesn't appear to have any dents. >> that was the blow poke. well, if it is, then what was the murder weapon? >> lawyer david rudolf thought he'd peppered reasonable doubt all the way through the state's circumstantial case. the perfect storm that wasn't to the murder weapon that was

drew peterson may lose his police pension, over the murder of his wife kathleen savio. the bolingbrook pension board voted yesterday to hold a hearing this summer, to consider revoking peterson's 79-thousand dollar a year pension. it'll need to prove that his duties as a police officer had something to do with savio's death. a few days into the governor's race, ill. already flooded with campaign ads. >> do you want someone representing you in springfield? >> they put out an ad for spanish-speaking voters, the governor point out about how rich his opponent is. the democratic strategy is plenty to class warfare. pointing toward "class warfare" in order to make rauner appear out of touch with average families. but the rauner side is focusing on the problems within state government. >> i am a strong democrat but i'm taking a leave of absence from my party because illinois is in desperate shape. >> one of the best ways to help the economy is to pay our hard- working workers a decent wage by raising the minimum wage to a least $10 per hour. >>house speaker michael madigan now