that friend, elizabeth ratliff s, death long ago in germany. so there you are in the court of public opinion this guy with two important women in your life and they re both dead in a heap at the bottom of the stairs. exactly. absolutely. has to be guilty. you re a writer of fiction. your editor would probably take that kind of coincidence out of the book. well, he would say, well, you know, come up with another one. she died in the bathtub or something. but no. but you re not immune to the irony of this, huh? no. of course not. but at the time because in in the course of this investigation didn t even occur to me. honest to god, it never even occurred to me. did you kill her? liz? no. of course not. and those witnesses who said elizabeth ratliff s blood was all over the staircase walls, michael insists their memories are wrong. they said, my god, there was blood everywhere. and, well, no. there wasn t. the german police didn t see any blood. the german
could it hold clues to kathleen s death? coming up she s saying something she heard. i don t know. she s screaming. i put some clothes on and i go over to the house and, in fact, liz is dead. dead at the bottom of the stairs? bottom of the stairs. the story disturbingly familiar, and so were the suspicions. if you fell down the stairs, why would there be blood splurted up the side of the walls? it didn t make any sense to me. when down the back staircase continues. staircase continues
come-hither beefcake pose complete with dog tags. you have great reviews and i would like to get together peterson wrote in one e-mail. i ve never done escort but used to pay to blank a super macho guy who played lacrosse. i m very bi, and that s all there is to it. what type of services did you perform? oh wow, that s pretty broad. in a sensational revelation, the prosecution called brad the escort to the stand. what type of sexual activities, sir? oh, just about anything under the sun. on the witness stand, the escort told the jury that just three-months before kathleen s death, he and michael peterson had arranged to meet. we were to hook up. and what were you all planning on doing? having sex. the hookup never happened, but combine that with the other combustibles in the couple s life, the prosecution said, and you have all the ingredients for a fatal confrontation. it got out of control, and michael peterson snapped. and he was the only one who could ha
here s what s happening. a judge has order order north korea to pay more than $500 million to the family of otto warmbier. the student was arrested in korea in 2016 for allegedly stealing a prop began aganda po. president trump and the first lady attended christmas eve mass at washington national cathedral. the first lady flew back from west palm beach yesterday afternoon to join her husband for christmas. now back to dateline . welcome back to dateline extra . i m craig melvin. kathleen peterson was dead at the bottom of the steps and stairs, the walls covered in
investigates on suspect michael may have been responsible for both deaths and in the search for evidence they were about to exhume elizabeth s body. could the old case shed new light? continuing with our story, here s dennis murphy. as time went by, margaret blair had come to accept michael peterson s explanation of her sister s death years before, a tumble down the stairs in a german townhouse. i just believed what i was told about the cerebral hemorrhage and, you know, i m presuming that a doctor had, you know, made this diagnosis. but when she learned that kathleen had also been found dead at the bottom of a staircase, margaret began wondering anew about how her sister died. she started reaching out elizabeth s old friends from germany. when i talked to her friends, i found out that blood had been dripping down the walls. well, that doesn t happen when you have a cerebral hemorrhage. authorities in north carolina were thinking the same thing.