Michael Peterson listening to defense attorney David Rudolf at his Durham, North Carolina, court hearing on December 6, 2011. ... police immediately treated the area like a crime scene.

Peterson, 73, claimed afterward that he was a victim, forced to seek justice on “a crooked table” where misbehaving law enforcement officers and crime scene analysts had “stacked the odds ...

Durham novelist Michael Peterson plans to enter an Alford plea to resolve a murder case. He insists he did not kill his wife, Kathleen, in December 2001.

12 ways new NBC sitcom parodies Michael Peterson murder trial By Brooke Cain. bcain@ ... (IRL: Kathleen Peterson was found at the bottom of a staircase and it was a very bloody scene.

The French documentary series “The Staircase,” released on Netflix in June 2018, follows the Michael Peterson case in Durham. Peterson went on trial in 2003 for the murder of his wife Kathleen.

Things turned violent, and Michael Peterson ended up attacking his second wife with a fire poker that was absent from the scene of the crime. He then either pushed her down the stairs or she fell ...

Drew Peterson leaves the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., after his arraignment in 2009 on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife Kathleen Savio.

Michael Peterson talks about being free from prison after Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson orders a new trial because ... The defense also said Durham police contaminated the crime scene.

In a new book, author Tiddy Smith tries to make a serious case to explain the 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson—but it rests on a shaky structure of owl feathers, pine needles, and bits of talons.

Michael Peterson, the Durham novelist accused of murdering his wife, wants to make sure a jury at his retrial doesn’t hear evidence about his contact with a gay escort and his interest in gay porn.