#384: The Staircase Revisited - Part 1

Real Crime Profile

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson died a terrible death, suffering for over 2 hours, bleeding from scalp lacerations and blunt force trauma while she lay in the stairwell of her North Carolina home. Her husband Michael Peterson was convicted of her murder after a contentious trial where all sorts of theories about who or what actually killed Kathleen were posited. Had Michael killed her in a fit of rage as the prosecution argued? Or did she fall down the staircase in a freak accident as claimed by her husband? The world became fascinated by this case due to a documentary called “The Staircase” which chronicled the run up to Michael’s trial as well as his post conviction appeals through 2018. HBO Max has made the docuseries into a scripted show, starring Toni Collette as Kathleen and Colin Firth as Micheal. The RCP team looks back at our original coverage of “The Staircase” documentary and compares it with the new show. How do both projects stack up to the truth? Join us.

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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.
0:10.0	There were 35 cuts and bruises, and 7 deep lacerations to the scalp.
0:17.0	It's like holding something that caused the impact of these worlds.
0:21.0	Like any adjustments you see fit.
0:23.0	It's a witch hunt.
0:26.0	You need to get you a lawyer.
0:28.0	Okay, it's like this. Keep your family close. You'll need to mind your side.
0:33.0	We have no murder weapon, but we've found countless images on his computer.
0:39.0	Dad tells stories.
0:41.0	It's true that from all of us, not from mom. She wanted to help me.
0:46.0	They're beautiful, and you're my daughter.
0:49.0	Do you really think that Kathleen Peterson really knew who her husband was?
1:19.0	Hey, lovely listeners, and welcome to Real Crime Profile. I'm Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard and Founder of the Advocacy Service called Paladin.
1:38.0	And I'm Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer producer of CBS's Criminal Minds.
1:44.0	And with him today is Lisa Zambeni. I'm a casting director of Criminal Minds and other things.
1:51.0	And you know, folks many years ago in 2018, RCP covered the case of Kathleen Peterson, who's has been Michael Peterson had been convicted of her murder.
2:02.0	And his trial was covered in a very obscure documentary you may not have heard of called the staircase on Netflix. I'm just kidding. It was a huge.
2:12.0	I mean, everybody around the world was watching this documentary and it caused a lot of fewer and a lot of conversation.
2:23.0	Please go back if you haven't and listen to our coverage of it. I believe it's episode 140 to 151. I haven't, Laura went back and listened to it. I haven't listened to it. I'm afraid that I embarrassed myself, but she'll get into that in a second.
2:36.0	But we're here today to talk about is the HBO Max series by Antonio Campos about the staircase and which is starring Colin Firth and Tony Colette and we're going to break it down for you today.
2:52.0	Yeah, and I just actually just want to add that in 2018 Netflix acquired the rights to the staircase. So the stride who was a documentarian, it actually put out episodes before and the family cooperated because they thought it was this small little documentary that no one would see.
3:11.0	And then of course Netflix, well, over 120 million subscribers got to watch the staircase. And so yes, most people do know about it now and we covered it in 2018. And yes, I did go back and listen to what we said.
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