But not every case ends the way youd expect. Meet Michael Peterson. His case, which defies all odds, became kno as the staircase murder. The sensational investigation and trial that ensued would rip a family apart. The secrets, the sleaze on display for everyone to gorge on. My mother would be absolutely appalled. This is the last thing she would have ever, ever wanted t thappen to her husband. Lets go back to the night, early december, 2001 and stroll up the driveway of grious, ramble ging house in a better neighborhood of durham, North Carolina. Rhe homeowners, kathleen and Michael Peterson, are out back on the patio, as the story goes, finishing a bottle of wine. In the living room, the Christmas Tree is already up. The grown peterson children, expected home for the holiday. Kathleen was always happiest in caitlin remembers it. She loved christmas. She loved being in the mood playing music from the start of december all theheay through new years. It was the kids actually who brought
In trying to solve one mystery, police may have solved two. Here i have two women who appeared to die the same way. Lightning dont strike the same place twice. Thats a whole lot of women dead at the bottom of the stairs in this guys life, dont you think . But what looked like the end of this story its really stuff made for tv drama. Was just another beginning. I always had hope. It has to be made right. When the cell doors slide shut with a resounding clank i was a wreck during this period. I really was. When the sun will come up through razor wire every day for the rest of your life thats where it begins and ends. A convicts glimmer of a successful appeal and retrial may keep desperate hope alive. I always had hope. It has to be made right. But in the real world of criminal justice, most of the time once youre inside, youre done. This is reality that we couldnt change. But not every case ends the way youd expect. Meet Michael Peterson. His case, which defies all odds, became known as
A simple case of murder. Or was it . A review of the slides showed what . Traces of bird feather . Yes. In trying to solve one mystery, police may have solved two. Here i have two women who appeared to die the same way. Lightning dont strike the same place twice. Thats a whole lot of women dead at the bottom of the stairs in this guys life, dont you think . But what looked like the end of this story its really stuff made for tv drama. Was just another beginning. I always had hope. It has to be made right. When the cell doors slide shut with a resounding clank i was a wreck during this period. When the sun will come up through razor wire every day for the rest of your life thats where it begins and ends. A convicts glimmer of a successful appeal and retrial may keep desperate hope alive. I always had hope. It has to be made right. But in the real world of criminal justice, most of the time once youre inside, youre done. This is reality that we couldnt change. But not every case ends the
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I found her at the base of the stairs. Reporter Kathleen Peterson, dead. Was this a fall, or was this murder . Reporter tonight a mystery weve covered for more than a decade comes to a shattering end. It did not look like a fall. Reporter Michael Peterson, under suspicion. Then a bombshell revelation about another woman, from his past. Liz was on the floor, and there was a puddle of blood under the staircase. Two women that appeared to die the same way. Two Women Associated with Michael Peterson. Reporter what are the odds . Yeah, what are the odds . Reporter at trial, one expert this is the scene of a beating. Reporter would make a slamdunk case for petersens guilt. The jurors were captivated by his testimony. Reporter but were his dramatic experiments, legit . Its designed to get a result. Its not scientific at all. Reporter now, in his only network interview, Michael Peterson on the twist that might finally lead to the truth. The most difficult decision i ever made in my life. Repor