Convicted murderer Adam Peterson’s father told 27 News his son’s death happened just one day before Melvin Peterson’s first planned visit with his son in prison.
“I would have hugged him. I could have held his hand,” Melvin Peterson of St. Paul told 27 News.
State corrections officials said Peterson was discovered Saturday in his cell at Dodge correctional facility in Waupun, hanging by bed sheets from the top rail of his prison bunk.