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Jun 4, 2022 · After a lengthy and often bizarre trial which was chronicled in the 2004 documentary series The Staircase, Peterson was found guilty of Kathleen's murder, partially on the basis of blood...
May 16, 2022 · HBO Max's The Staircase examines Kathleen Peterson's murder. Did Michael Peterson kill his wife? Is The Staircase a true story? How did Kathleen Peterson die?
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Dec 1, 2023 · Michael Peterson served time in prison for the murder of his wife Kathleen, but was granted a new trial in 2011 due to misleading testimony from a key prosecution witness.
Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943) is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. After eight years, Peterson was granted a new trial after the judge ruled a critical prosecution witness gave misleading testimony. [1] .
Filmed by Bafta Scotland Award-winning director Matt Pinder, this groundbreaking documentary takes the audience into the very centre of the trial at Glasgow’s High Court, as carers Cairney and Jones face trial for the murder of 35 year-old Margaret Fleming.
Margaret Fleming (1 November 1980 – c. December 1999/January 2000) was a Scottish woman who was murdered by her nominated carers Edward Cairney (1941 – 2023) and Avril Jones (b. 1960) in the village of Inverkip, Inverclyde, Scotland.
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May 6, 2022 · On a chilly December night in 2001, novelist Michael Peterson found his wife, Nortel executive Kathleen Peterson, lying covered in blood at the foot of a narrow stairwell in their Durham, North...