Article: Suspect's father denies son tied to other slayings; Adam Peterson, charged with murder in Madison, Wis., was not there at the time of two other killings, his dad says.(NEWS)

Byline: JIM ADAMS; STAFF WRITER

The father of a Washington County man charged in a Wisconsin homicide says it is unlikely that his son was involved in two other unsolved Madison killings because he was out of town when they happened.

Melvin Peterson said Brittany Zimmermann was killed in April, a month after his son, Adam Peterson, 20, had returned to Minnesota, where he underwent treatment for depression. Another woman, Kelly Nolan, was killed last summer, when Adam and his twin brother, Eric, were working at Wisconsin Dells, their father said.

No one familiar with the case in the Madison Police Department was available to comment.

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