Wolf/Sheep True Crime Podcast: Michael Peterson Staircase Murder When Owls Don't Attack

Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Roberta Glass

True Crime

3.3 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Michael Peterson just took an Alford plea making him legally a convicted felon. His late wife Kathleen Peterson (2/21/53-12/9/01) was the 1st female student accepted at Duke in their school of engineering. A patron of the Arts, an executive at Nortel and by all accounts an awesome cook & hostess. Her life was taken from her when her husband Michael Peterson beat her to death. After spending millions on his defense, participating in a documentary vanity project and pleading his innocence in the press; Peterson took an Alford plea for manslaughter. Kathleen Peterson's sister wisely saw the plea for what it was " Alford-schmalford guilt"! She exclaimed in a blistering impact statement.
Despite his guilty plea some still think an owl the culprit. Here's why it the owl theory makes no sense!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the wolves in
0:04.5	And can I see in the night
0:06.9	Welcome to the Wolves and Sheep podcast.
0:10.4	I'm Roberta Glass.
0:11.4	And today I will be talking to you about Michael Peterson,
0:17.5	the staircase when owls don't Attack. So stay tuned. Okay. So Michael Peterson was a writer who lived in Durham, North Carolina. He was on his second marriage to Kathleen Hunt-Atwater Peterson, a very brilliant woman, the first woman who was accepted into the Duke School of Engineering.
0:42.2	She was an executive at Nortel, according to her friends and family. She was an incredible hostess, cook, and all around an incredible person.
0:55.6	Now, Michael Peterson had run for mayor at the end of the 1990s and he had lost.
1:02.9	And he had lost because he had lied about the medals he received in the Vietnam War.
1:13.2	And this was quite a devastating loss to him.
1:20.5	He was back writing novels.
1:22.1	He had written for the local paper,
1:25.6	writing about corruption, and being very critical of the powers that be in
1:32.6	Durham, North Carolina.
1:35.3	Now, on December 9th, 2001, Michael Peterson calls 911 and reports that his wife Kathleen has fallen down the stairs.
1:52.5	She's had an accident.
1:54.3	She's still breathing.
1:55.8	Please help.
1:58.9	Now, when the paramedics arrive, they find Kathleen Peterson dead at the bottom of the back
2:09.4	steps, surrounded by lots of blood spatter on the walls. There is blood on the bottom of her feet. Some of the blood is dried.
2:23.9	She is clearly dead and the paramedics feel that she did not recently pass. There is also many
2:33.5	lacerations to the back of her head. When the police arrive and ask what
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