Originally published December 3 2005
Police use suspect's Google searches as evidence in murder trial
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Robert Petrick, accused of murdering his wife, may have incriminated himself with Google searches related to Raleigh Lake, where his wife's dead body was found.
More than two years after Janine Sutphen's body was discovered floating in a Raleigh lake, investigators continue to find new evidence on computers seized from Robert Petrick's home that prosecutors say support their arguments that Petrick killed his wife.
Last week, a forensic investigator discovered that Petrick allegedly researched lake levels, water currents, boat ramps and access about Falls Lake just four days before he reported Sutphen missing on Jan. 22, 2003.
He told jurors that when he had not heard from his mother over a two-week period, he called Petrick and threatened to come to North Carolina to find out what was wrong.
Robin Sutphen, left, and his brother Christopher, testified that they suspected all along that Robert Petrick was involved in their mother's death.
"It's been 2� years of listening to him avoid and tell lies and run spins," Robin Sutphen said.
During cross-examination, the strain in the Sutphen brothers' voices could be heard as they answered Petrick's questions.
Both, however, looked the accused killer directly in the eyes.
"When you get up on the stand and look at the man who murdered your mother, you tend to want to confront him," Robin Sutphen told WRAL.
While the battle in the courtroom has been filled with tears, the brothers said they have also learned many good things about their mother.
"How she's touched everybody and how an amazing person she was and how much pride she had in her sons," Christopher Sutphen said.
"So, we just go on living and maintaining and living up to what she'd expect of us -- the best."
Thursday will be a bittersweet day for the Sutphen brothers and their older half-brother.
It would have been their mother's 60th birthday.
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