The mind-boggling case of Michael Peterson‘s wife Kathleen’s death is about to get a whole new look on HBO. A dramatization of the case, which has been famously dubbed “The Staircase” over ...

It's often hard to know what "just the facts" are, let alone what they mean. Consider the story of Michael Peterson, a Durham, N.C., writer whose wife, Kathleen, was found dead at the bottom of ...

Three new episodes of The Staircase, the acclaimed docuseries on Michael Peterson's case, will air on Netflix this summer Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at PEOPLE ...

The gripping HBO Max true crime series The Staircase follows the 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson. Her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, became the center of the investigation and was eventually ...

The Staircase, starring Colin Firth, Toni Colette, Sophie Turner, and Patrick Schwarzenegger, brings the case of Michael Peterson, a Vietnam veteran and crime novelist who was convicted of murder ...

David Rudolf — the real-life North Carolina defense lawyer who represented Michael Peterson after he was accused of killing his wife Kathleen — knows this, and he isn’t happy about it.

Michael Peterson, the Durham novelist accused of murdering his wife, wants to make sure a jury at his retrial doesn’t hear evidence about his contact with a gay escort and his interest in gay porn.

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At first, it seems as if Michael Peterson and Brunet are only exchanging letters and books as Peterson serves his life sentence at Nash Correctional Institution. Peterson was convicted of killing ...

Michael Peterson (center) is surrounded by family members and reporters as he walks into the Durham County Courthouse to turn himself in for in connection with the death of his wife Kathleen Peterson.

DURHAM, North Carolina -- Durham novelist Michael Peterson entered an Alford plea Friday to manslaughter in the 2001 death of his wife Kathleen. The plea deal came before Peterson faced retrial on ...