#140: Her Name Was Kathleen Peterson: Discussing The Staircase

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

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🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The RCP deep dive the case of Kathleen Peterson and discuss the Netflix original documentary "The Staircase."

In 2004, filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade debuted "The Staircase" as an eight-part mini-series which examined the case of Michael Peterson, a novelist who was accused of murdering his wife Kathleen after she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their Durham, North Carolina home.

In 2012 a further two hours were shot from Peterson's and the defence teams perspective detailing the aftermath of the trial and turning it into a 13 hour docu-series.

Was it an accident or was she murdered? Our expert team weigh in, starting as they always do, with the victimology.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	Days before Kathleen's death, we were discussing the beautiful dress and matching coat that she was playing
0:13.4	so where to the governor of North Carolina's dresses party.
0:17.0	Now Kathleen is buried in this dress and matching shoes. Her break is real and it brings real pain to the human body.
0:27.0	It's been over 15 years since Michael Peterson called my husband and told him that my sister Kathleen had fallen on stairs and died.
0:35.0	Those words worked.
0:37.0	Michael Peterson's fictionalized story of my sister's death began December 9, 2001, a phone call on a Sunday morning, barely two weeks before Christmas.
0:46.0	There were three sisters, Kathleen, me and Lori. Now they were two sisters.
0:57.0	One of the most famous criminal cases in the triangle's history could be coming to an end soon. After more than a decade, the attorney for Novelis, Michael Peterson says a deal has been a reach that will resolve the 2001 case.
1:09.0	Peterson was accused of killing his wife, Kathleen.
1:13.0	It's a case that's spanned more than 15 years.
1:16.0	Mike Peterson has been in and out of Durham County Court since first being accused of killing his wife, Kathleen, in 2001.
1:23.0	He's maintained his innocence, saying his wife fell. He was convicted of murder in 2003, but released in 2011 after that conviction was overturned.
1:31.0	A judge determined one of the state's key witnesses lied on the stand about evidence.
1:36.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente, former New York City prosecutor, retired FBI profiler and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds.
1:45.0	And with me remotely today is...
1:48.0	Laura Richards, founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service, former criminal behavioral analyst of New Scotland Yard and author of the book, Pleasing Domestic Violence.
1:58.0	And I'm Lisa Zambetti. I'm casting director at CBS's Criminal Minds, and I'm coming to you from my casting trailer. So please excuse any air conditioning and voices you hear.
2:08.0	And today we're really excited to finally be covering the Netflix original series, The Staircase.
2:15.0	This has been a case that's been going on for a very long time, almost two decades.
2:20.0	And recently there have been incredible new developments, as well as three additional episodes to this ongoing docu-series.
2:31.0	The thing about this case was that the documentarians had unprecedented access, almost from the very first day of this crime.
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