#149: Her Name Was Liz Ratliffe - The Staircase

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

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🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The RCP team of Laura Richards, Jim Clemente and Lisa Zambetti analyze and discuss Liz Ratliffe’s death in Germany. Liz was found dead at the bottom of the staircase 17 years earlier. We discuss phone calls she was receiving beforehand and Michael Peterson’s behaviour.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile add free on Amazon Music. Download
0:06.2	the app today.
0:08.4	Liz was born Elizabeth McKee in Rhode Island and was one of three sisters who grew up on a farm.
0:14.0	She was artistic, musical and gifted at languages and spent 17 years teaching the children
0:19.2	of military families.
0:21.0	Two years later, Liz was dead too, at the age of 43.
0:25.2	Elizabeth Ratliffe's death in Germany.
0:27.3	I think everyone became so fascinated with that.
0:32.6	That's Julia Simmsom, WRAL, who covered this case from the start.
0:36.5	Here is another woman, 20 years prior.
0:40.2	Michael Peterson was the last person to see her alive, just like his wife Kathleen.
0:45.2	If you see the pictures of Elizabeth Ratliffe and Kathleen Peterson side by side, they
0:50.4	look like they could be twins.
0:56.2	Even if this wasn't accident over in Germany in 1985, he has seen this scene and seen
1:02.2	what an accident they have looked like, knowing what a model, using it as a model or a blueprint,
1:07.6	so to speak, when this case is committed now in 2001.
1:11.8	When you look at the similarities between the two, they are striking.
1:15.2	Obviously, the most striking thing about it is that we have here now this defendant has
1:18.9	evolved to the case where two women are found at the bottom of the stairway dead.
1:23.2	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profiles.
1:25.3	This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI Profile of Forming New York City Prosecutor and writer
1:29.6	producer on CBS's Criminal Minds.
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