MADISON, Wis. â?? Multiple confessions and a DNA match were enough for a judge to order a college dropout from Minnesota to stand trial today in a murder that left Wisconsin’s capital city on edge for weeks.
Adam Peterson, 20, told his parents during calls from jail and detectives who arrested him that he stabbed Joel Marino in his home in a robbery attempt, according to transcripts and testimony during a preliminary hearing in Dane County Circuit Court.