WRITTEN IN BLOOD-Diane Fanning

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Michael Peterson was driven to succeed.

An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University’s School of Engineering. The Petersons seemed the ideal academic couple— well-respected, prosperous, and happy.

All that came crashing down in December of 2001, when Kathleen apparently fell to her death in their secluded home in an exclusive area of Durham, North Carolina. But blood-spattered evidence and a missing fireplace poker suggested calculated, cold-blooded murder. Her trusted husband stood accused.

Then the most damaging evidence of all surfaced: Sixteen years earlier, Peterson was the last person to see his neighbor alive–before she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her home in Germany. A dramatic trial followed in the explosive final chapter of a life that no novelist could ever have conceived. WRITTEN IN BLOOD: A True Story of Murder and a 16-year-old Secret that Tore a Family Apart-Diane Fanning

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0:48.0	Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, BTK,
0:54.0	every week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime history.
1:00.0	True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski.
1:16.0	Good evening.
1:17.0	Michael Peterson was driven to succeed.
1:21.0	An army brat turned marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier.
1:27.0	An avid reader, his dreams of being in the claimed noblest came true.
1:32.0	His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater,
1:37.0	the first female student accepted at Duke University School of Engineering.
1:42.0	The Peterson seemed like the ideal academic couple, well respected, prosperous and happy.
1:50.0	All that came crashing down in December of 2001 when Kathleen apparently fell to her death
1:56.0	in her secluded home in an exclusive area of Durham, North Carolina.
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