S3 Ep105: Kathleen Peterson: The Staircase (Part 1)

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🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

In the early hours of December 9th, 2001, a man named Michael Peterson made a panicked phone call to 911, telling them that his wife, 48 year old Kathleen Peterson, had fallen down the stairs and they should hurry because she was still breathing. Six minutes later he called back and reported that Kathleen was no longer breathing, she was gone. Initially, it appeared that this had been a tragic accident, but as first responders and law enforcement began to arrive at the scene, the tension was palpable. The Peterson family and friends felt that Michael was being unfairly targeted, that the police were only suspicious of him because he had been loudly outspoken and critical of the Durham North Carolina Police Department in his role as columnist for a local paper. The law enforcement professionals on the scene claimed that from the moment they walked in, it felt as if something wasn’t right, and there was far too much blood for the death of Kathleen Peterson to be attributed to a simple fall down the stairs.

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0:00.0	In the early hours of December 9, 2001, a man named Michael Peterson made a panicked phone
0:17.4	call to 911, telling them that his wife, 48-year-old Kathleen Peterson, had fallen down the stairs
0:24.6	and they should hurry because she was still breathing.
0:53.6	6 minutes later, he called back and reported that Kathleen was no longer breathing.
1:09.8	She was gone.
1:10.9	Initially, it appeared that this had been a tragic accident, but as first responders and
1:15.8	law enforcement began to arrive at the scene, the tension was palpable.
1:20.4	The Peterson family and friends felt that Michael was being unfairly targeted, that the
1:25.6	police were only suspicious of him because he'd been loudly outspoken and critical of the
1:31.0	Durham North Carolina Police Department in his role as a columnist for a local paper.
1:36.7	The law enforcement professionals on the scene claimed that from the moment they walked
1:40.4	in, it felt as if something wasn't right, and that there was far too much blood for
1:45.8	the death of Kathleen Peterson to be attributed to a simple and accidental fall down the stairs.
1:55.8	Hello everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly, I'm Stephanie Harlow.
2:09.2	And I'm Derek Levasson.
2:10.5	So today, I mean this episode technically marks our new season, our third crime weekly
2:16.5	season, that's kind of crazy.
2:18.6	It is time flies, it really does.
2:20.6	We just felt like yesterday we were just starting and listening to some of our older episodes,
2:25.8	I was doing a new playlist on YouTube for something that YouTube is doing now with podcasts
2:30.2	and listening to even our oldest YouTube video, it almost makes you cringe a little bit.
2:34.7	I'm sure you have this with your channel as well where you're like, oh my god, we were
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