That office, located behind a small, arched doorway underneath the Queen Charlotte staircase, once served as a bedroom suite where Mabel Cheek's mother slept on a four-poster mahogany and rosewood ...

On paper, The Staircase is wholly unnecessary. The 2001 death of North Carolina business executive Kathleen Peterson and subsequent trial of her husband Michael has been covered in obsessive ...

Consider the story of Michael Peterson, a Durham, N.C., writer whose wife, Kathleen, was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in their house in 2001. He said she fell; the authorities said he ...