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#141: Analyzing the 911 Calls - The Staircase

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary


Jim, Laura and Lisa continue their discussions about the @netflix show “The Staircase”. Jim and Laura analyse the 911 calls made by Michael Peterson on the landline at 1810 Cedar Street, Durham, North Carolina on December 9 2001. The first call was made at 02.40 and the second was at 02.46.


Two minutes after receiving the call paramedics Jay Rose and Ron Paige had been dispatched and were on way to the scene.


The #RCP team discuss what the paramedics discovered when they arrived at the Peterson home.


#HerNameWasKathleen 

#TheStaircase


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0:00.0

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0:11.0

I have to push down a lot that the first thoughts of Kathleen are not the visual... visualization of seeing her laying on the floor in her blood.

0:28.0

She's clearly dead and she's clearly been ripped to pieces and it's just horrific.

0:36.0

And those pictures come too quickly to mind. So I work very hard again to when I think of Kathleen and it will come again.

0:45.0

That when I think of her, I will think of the fun time. And times we left and dresses we shared and fun conversations.

0:54.0

But right now I'm still at the part where when I think of her, it still is very fresh and even though it was 15 years ago, I very easily see her lying there dead.

1:05.0

So Kathleen went to Macaskee High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She graduated very top for class. To the extent she was so advanced in math and also in Latin that the public high school paid for her to do so.

1:34.0

She was a very hard working. She had a very good IQ as a matter of fact.

1:38.0

Kathleen wanted to go to a top school and she got into Duke University where she excelled.

1:44.0

And as I think you've mentioned earlier, she was a very good student.

1:51.0

She was a very good student. She was a very good student.

1:55.0

And by Q as a matter of fact, Kathleen wanted to go to a top school and she got into Duke University where she excelled.

2:02.0

And as I think you've mentioned earlier, she got...she was the first woman to get into the school of engineering at Duke University.

2:11.0

Hello and welcome to Real Prime Profiles. This is Jim Clementine, former New York City prosecutor who retired at FBI Profile and writer producer of CVS's Criminal Minds.

2:19.0

With me today remotely is...

2:22.0

Laura Richards, founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service, former criminal behavioural analyst, a new Scotland Yard and author of the book, Placing Domestic Violence.

2:30.0

And I'm Lisa Zanabedi, I am the casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds.

2:34.0

Well today we're continuing our coverage of the Netflix original series, The Staircase. And we're going to start right in with the 911 call. And listen in and then we'll come back and talk about it.

2:49.0

Calm down, why are you marketing?

2:51.0

1810 Cedar Street, please.

2:53.0

What's wrong?

2:54.0

My wife's telling an ex-girlfriend she's still bringing...

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