A Complete Timeline of The Staircase’s Michael Peterson Murder Case

HBO Max’s The Staircase spotlights a case that true crime fans have been obsessing over for the better part of two decades. On a November evening in 2001, novelist Michael Peterson found his wife, Kathleen, dead at the bottom of a staircase in their North Carolina home— at least, that’s Peterson’s story. According to prosecutors, Peterson is the one who put her there. After a lengthy and often bizarre trial which was chronicled in the 2004 documentary series The Staircase, Peterson was found guilty of Kathleen’s murder, partially on the basis of blood spatter evidence that was later found to… Read Full Article