79 | Worst Case Scenario: The Staircase on Netflix (Part 2)
Best Case Worst Case
X-G Productions
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🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Is it a best case or a worst case? The whole team, Jim, Francey, Bobby, and Maureen break down the case against Michael Peterson as depicted on Netflix’s series The Staircase. Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of staircase. What happened? This docu series brings us behind the scenes and our team dissects it. What does Peterson’s behavior tell Jim? What does the bloody scene suggest to Maureen? What investigative steps should have been done from Bobby’s perspective? And how was the trial conducted in Francey’s opinion?
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| 0:00.0 | This or something like it, they think was the murder weapon. |
| 0:11.0 | They can victim of murder. |
| 0:15.5 | The amount of blood and the secrets that came out about him. |
| 0:21.5 | I would have wanted to see more. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Case Worc case. I'm your host, Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor. |
| 0:42.0 | This is a special edition of Best Case Worc case we like to call Worc case scenario. |
| 0:47.0 | And joining me in the studio today is... |
| 0:49.0 | Jim Climetti, retired FBI profiler for the New York City Prosecutor and writer-producer of CBS's Criminal Minds. |
| 0:55.0 | Bobby Chico and retired FBI Special Agent. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm Morino Connell, a retired FBI Special Agent. |
| 1:01.0 | Let's pick right back up where we stopped last time you guys. |
| 1:04.0 | We were talking about Michael Peterson, the case against him, the bloody stairwell, the blood spatter. |
| 1:11.0 | Morin was talking about, and the death of Elizabeth Ratliffe. |
| 1:15.0 | In addition to the affairs he was having in his marriage, all of this evidence came to the jury. |
| 1:21.0 | The judge allowed all of that in. |
| 1:23.0 | The jury got to evaluate it all, but there was really pretty key evidence in the case that many of the jurors cited later as having particular significance. |
| 1:32.0 | And that was the evidence by the local agent, Deaver, who was kind of the blood spatter analyst who did the recreations and described exactly how he thought the crime happened and how the blood ended up where it did. |
| 1:46.0 | Right. And he also built a scale model of the hallway and the stairway. |
| 1:51.0 | And he gave some really, I would call, damning testimony during the first trial. |
| 1:57.0 | He did. And he was someone that we didn't really see it in the film, but there were hearings ahead of time ahead of the trial where the judge had to listen to his qualifications and pre-qualify him as an expert, where he made a lot of representations about how many false scenes that he had responded to, how much blood spatter. |
| 2:15.0 | And now, this is the case. |
| 2:16.0 | And so, the judge's blood spatter analysis that he had done and overall how many scenes with blood that he had been involved in assessing how that blood got where it was. |
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