The Murder Of Kathleen Peterson [Crime Documentary]

Kathleen Peterson worked for Nortel at the time of her death, and Michael Peterson was a published novelist. It all started in 2001, when Michael Peterson called 911 to report Kathleen having fallen down the stairs. He called again that night, and by the time emergency personnel got to the residence, Kathleen had died. Blood coated the walls and the stairs of the stairway inside the home. Michael Peterson was convicted guilty of killing his wife in the subsequent trial.

He was eventually freed from prison after entering an Alford plea. This indicates that, while he maintains his innocence, he acknowledges that the evidence would be adequate to persuade a jury of his guilt.

Michael Peterson tells a lot of falsehoods. He was allegedly injured during military action and was awarded two purple hearts as a consequence. These injuries were caused by a vehicle accident.

Michael Peterson also claimed Kathleen Peterson was still alive when he discovered her, despite the fact that she had been dead for hours. Kathleen Peterson had a $1.4 million insurance policy, therefore Michael Peterson may have needed the money to pay off his $143,000 credit card bills.

Michael Peterson had no real money of his own, so if Kathleen left him or lost her job, as seemed inevitable, he may lose everything.

The problem is that one of his writings was being made into a film, which calls into doubt the concept that financial concerns drove him to murder when he was really receiving his own influx of cash. They were also not impoverished, with a net worth of $2 million, and could have paid off the bills. It appears improbable as a motive for murder. However, the money did not wind up going to Michael Peterson, but rather to her first husband and her daughter Caitlin.

 Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943) was convicted in 2003 of the murder of his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. After eight years, Peterson was given a new trial after a judge decided that a key prosecution witness provided false testimony.

This second trial was supposed to start on May 8, 2017. Peterson entered an Alford plea to the reduced charge of manslaughter on February 24, 2017. He was condemned to time served and then released. The Staircase, a documentary miniseries about Peterson's case, began filming immediately after his arrest in 2001 and tracked events until his ultimate Alford plea in 2017.

In 2019, he shared his own story of his life since the loss of his wife Kathleen in an independently published book titled "Behind the Staircase."