Article: PETERSON: KILLED HIM 'FOR NO REASON' HE SAYS HE STABBED MARINO 'OUT OF NOWHERE'.(FRONT)

Byline: PATRICIA SIMMS psimms@madison.com 608-252-6492

A thin, troubled college dropout confessed to killing Joel Marino, 31, for "no reason" during a robbery, according to court testimony Friday.

Adam Peterson, 20, a Minnesota man who briefly attended UW-Madison, told both police and his parents that Marino was a stranger to him, police said.

"I just stabbed him out of nowhere," Peterson told his father, Melvin, during a recorded phone call he made from the Washington County jail in Stillwater, Minn., shortly after he was arrested June 26.

During a preliminary hearing Friday, there were no clear answers to questions about how Marino ...

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