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Murder She Watched: True Crime Documentaries & Docuseries Recaps

The Staircase S1:EP1 Crime or Accident? (Netflix, 2004)

Murder She Watched: True Crime Documentaries & Docuseries Recaps

Little Miss Recap, LLC

True Crime, Reviews, Tv & Film, Tv, Documentaries, Tv Reviews

4.9615 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Amye and Becca discuss the Netflix documentary, The Staircase S1:EP1 Crime or Accident?, which neither of us have EVER seen. Join us as we go along for this ride!


Michael Peterson relates his version of the fatal events of Dec. 9, 2001. Oscar winning filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade chronicles the sensational murder trial, granting unusual access to Peterson's lawyers and his immediate family.


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0:00.0

Murder She Watch contains adult themes and adult language.

0:04.4

Listener discretion is advised.

0:06.5

Murder She Watched is for entertainment purposes only.

0:17.6

Hi everyone.

0:19.0

Welcome to Murder Club.

0:27.5

The first inaugural paid content for murder she watched. Hi, Becca.

0:40.9

Hi. How are you? I'm so excited to be with you today to talk about the staircase. I'm so excited about this because as we spoke, we both know nothing about this case at all.

0:44.5

The only thing I know is the owl theory.

0:45.0

Yes.

0:48.7

And I only knew that because people talk about it so much.

0:52.5

But I didn't know the specifics.

0:57.0

Can we just say I am a child who clearly grew up on soap operas?

1:00.4

Because I pictured this fall down the stairs very differently than it happened.

1:05.7

Like I imagined similar to Eric Forrester's home on Bolden the Beautiful that like there was this grand staircase coming down the middle of the living room, which I think there is.

1:11.2

Yes.

1:11.8

But she fell down the back steps into the kitchen.

1:14.7

And I thought she'd be wearing like an evening gown, like a Brooke Logan or something, and just tuff, like tumble down those stairs.

1:23.9

Yes.

1:24.2

That's not what happened.

1:25.0

That's not what happened.

1:25.2

Clickety clack like high heel slippers on and like her hair was laid out behind her. No, yes. That is not what happened. No, no, no, no. And these are like, I feel like her house is very old and where it's at in the country. These are like servant stairs, I think. You know,, Dowling Tabby, like the back room.

1:44.6

Yes.

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