Need a primer on how the Michael Peterson murder case unfolded? Check out this clickable timeline. Further information on Kathleen Pearson’s daughter Caitlin Atwater breaking her silence, Michael Peterson pleading guilty, and the SBI misconduct in Michael Peterson’s trial.
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The INDY’s Coverage of the Michael Peterson Case
On December 9, 2001, Nortel Networks vice president Kathleen Peterson, a well-known advocate for the arts in Durham, was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Forest Hills home. On February 24, 2017, her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his wife but later had that conviction […]