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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

In an exclusive Us Weekly sneak peek, Candace Zamperini, Kathleen’s sister, details what she saw when she arrived at the crime scene on December 9, 2001 — the day her sister was found dead ...

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.