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Peterson’s taped confessions to parents lead to trial

MADISON (WKOW) — A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been bound over for trial in connection with a January stabbing death.

Twenty-year-old Adam Peterson faces one count of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Joel Marino.

Assistant district attorney Corey Stephan on Friday played tapes of calls Peterson made from a Minnesota jail to his parents in which he confesses to killing Marino in a robbery.