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Death on the Staircase

Crime or Accident?

Duration: 46 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

In the middle of the night of December 9th, 2001, wealthy novelist Michael Peterson called the emergency services in Durham, North Carolina, to tell them he had found his wife Kathleen unconscious at the bottom of the stairs. But when the police discovered the pool of blood around her body and the lacerations on her skull, they arrested Michael Peterson for murder.

Was the death Michael Peterson's wife Kathleen an accident or a crime? Oscar-winner Jean-Xavier de Lestrade follows the dramatic story of a notorious murder case for Storyville. (2005) Show less

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