The Staircase Murder – E004

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

True Crime

3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of December 9, 2001, novelist and aspiring politician Mike Peterson makes a harrowing 911 call to report that his wife Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC mansion and is barely breathing. By the time police arrive, however, they find Kathleen dead in a pool of blood, and what's been reported as an accident suddenly seems like murder. But the only other person in the house that night was her loving husband. So, did he do it? And is the truth buried in a dark secret from his past? Let's take a look.

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0:00.0	9-1-1-1-1-Ware your emergency?
0:03.0	18-10 feet of street, please.
0:05.0	What's wrong?
0:06.0	My wife's kind of accident.
0:08.0	She still brings him... What kind of accident?
0:09.0	She's still on the stairs.
0:10.0	She still brilliant, please.
0:12.0	Is she conscious? What she's not conscious.
0:15.0	Okay, how many stairs did she call down?
0:18.0	How many stairs? How many stairs? How many stairs?
0:21.0	How many stairs?
0:22.0	Come down, sir.
0:25.0	Calm down.
0:26.0	No, uh, 20, I don't know.
0:28.0	Please, get somebody here right away.
0:30.0	Okay, somebody's dispatching the ambulance while I ask you questions.
0:34.0	It's in force, you know?
0:36.0	Okay? Please, please! Oh, Hey everybody welcome back to episode four of cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Krauss serving
1:04.2	up another heaping dose of death on this fine day. And on the menu is Kathleen Peterson,
1:09.4	a telecom exec who succumbed to a savage beating in her Durham, North Carolina mansion on December 9, 2001.
1:16.5	But was it really an accident?
1:18.6	Just an unfortunate case of a tired stressed-out businesswoman who mixed a bit too much alcohol in volume before taking
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