defense attorney rudolf notes what he didn't find: though the cuts were deep, there were no skull orabsolutely no fractures anywhere. no fractures to her fingers, to her arms to her skull. and there was absolutely no injury to the brain. and that's just almost an impossibility if what you're doing is beating somebody with a metal object. >> reporter: and for a final exclamation point, the defense had a "perry mason" moment up its sleeve. the prosecution had insisted throughout the murder weapon used to bludgeon kathleen peterson was the fireplay -- fireplace blowpoke, only police never found it. almost three months into the trial, one of michael's sons made a stunning discovery in the peterson's basement. >> he immediately runs up to margaret who was at the house and said, "margaret, i think i -- i -- i think i found the blowpoke." >> reporter: the film crew following michael's team for their documentary, "the staircase," was there the day it happened. >> and they look at it. and that's the blowpoke hidden in the corner sort of buried behind something, covered with cobwebs, dirt, bug

of hungarian jews traded for trucks and other material in negotiations between adult eichmann and rudolfrted for six months, and later they were able to get to switzerland. both irene and manny volunteer at the museum. thank you. congressman ed royce, may i ask you to stand by the fifth candle. the fifth candle will be lit by esther, and harry markowitz. esther was sent by her parents from germany to england on i kindred transport. her family was deported to a camp in france and later her parents were sent to auschwitz and killed. harry was born in berlin. shortly before, harry and his family fled berlin to antwerp. later fearing he would be selected for forced labor, harry's family moved the family to brussels where they separately went into hiding until liberation. harry and esther are also museum volunteers. now i would like to ask congressman brad schneider to stand by the sixth candle. the sixth candle will be lit by marcel harnack and ray goldfarb. marcel and his family moved from paris to vichy france after the french citizenship of his romanian born parents were revoked. his fami