Truth about Netflix's The Staircase murder revealed - killer owl or evil husband
07.05.2022 - 00:33
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Police responding to Michael Peterson‘s call that his wife had fallen down stairs encountered a truly gruesome scene when they arrived at the house.
Officers walked in on bloodstained floors, stairs and walls... and the bloody corpse of Kathleen Peterson. Michael was arrested, charged and convicted of murder.
The case had so many twists it seemed far-fetched even by Hollywood standards. However, that hasn’t stopped Tinseltown giving it its own treatment.
Sky mini-series The Staircase stars Colin Firth as Michael and Toni Collette as Kathleen as they play out the events of that night, December 8, 2001, in Durham, North Carolina, according to Mirror Online.
So did Michael kill Kathleen? Was it an insurance scam? An attempt to silence Kathleen over her discovery of his bisexuality? Was it an accident? Or, bizarrely, was the real culprit an intruding owl?
We sift the facts and examine the evidence with the help of Michael’s defence lawyer, David Rudolf, writer of a gripping book on the great miscarriages of US justice.
Kathleen was a highly paid telecommunications executive while Vietnam vet Michael was a novelist. He was also involved in local politics and wrote a newspaper column often critical of Durham’s officials and police.
The family home was a lavish colonial-style mansion. Michael had two sons from his first marriage as well as two daughters he adopted with his ex-wife Patty. Kathleen had one daughter from her first marriage - Caitlin Atwater.
At first all five children supported Michael against the accusations. But then Caitlin changed her mind after the discovery of the male escort emails and after reading the autopsy report.
The bisexuality revelations also turned Kathleen’s sister Candace Zamparini against