S3 Ep108: Kathleen Peterson: The Other Man (Part 4)

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

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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	Hello everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly.
0:15.2	I'm Stephanie Harlow.
0:16.9	And I'm Derek Lvassar.
0:18.4	So today we are picking up with the Kathleen and Michael Peterson case.
0:23.2	And I was just talking to Derek earlier.
0:26.1	And I think after this episode we should really only have one more episode which will wrap
0:32.2	everything up and then we can give our final thoughts because honestly the more I learn
0:36.4	about this case, the more discussed it I am with the prosecution and how they handled
0:42.8	this case because at the end of the day, if Michael Peterson is guilty of doing what
0:48.7	he did, we'll never know because they screwed up so royally and reached so hard.
0:56.0	And they did things that just I think were unconscionable.
0:59.3	So and on that note, before we dive into the new stuff, I do want to address the conversation
1:04.5	that Derek and I had at the end of the last episode because at that point I didn't have
1:09.6	all the details of what I did believe to be potential Brady violations on behalf of the
1:14.7	prosecution in the state and give us a refresher Derek.
1:17.9	What's a Brady violation?
1:18.9	Well, it's essentially the lack of disclosure regarding evidence that could be designated
1:25.3	as a sculpatory, something that would maybe prove the innocence of the person currently
1:29.3	charged and the prosecution or as we're going to explain the law enforcement agency, the
1:34.0	police department deliberately not turning that information over for discovery so that the
1:38.0	defense has an opportunity to bring it up in court.
1:40.6	Exactly.
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