A Weak Case
On December 9, 2001 at 2:41 a.m. the rescue squad of the city of Durham, North Carolina got an urgent call from a man who had a hard time explaining that his wife had fallen down a flight of stairs.
He said she was bleeding profusely but still breathing. When the medical team arrived five minutes later, it was too late. The victim was dead. Her husband had traces of blood on his hands and face.
For the inspector in charge of the inquiry, the facts spoke for themselves: there was too much blood and too many wounds on the victim. It was not an accident, but a murder.
A week later Michael Peterson was arrested.
This is a murder mystery like no other by the Academy Award-winning director of Murder on a Sunday Morning. After winning the Oscar, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade set out to make a documentary investigating another alleged murder, a story that quickly developed more twists and turns than a script for CSI.
With unprecedented access to all the central characters, the result is the first-ever docu-thriller series Death on the Staircase: Crime Scene or Accident?
July 19, 2011 at 2:47 am | Guest
Where does North Carolina get its so called ‘experts’ from ? I know more about forensics from watching the F.B.I files than the muppet in this, and as for the so called forensic pathologist, another person who clearly does not have the expertise to be in such an inportant job.
I have not seen such an obvious miscarriage of justice and clear false incrimination by the police since I watched the story of the Hurricane. After watching this, I have adopted two views of North Carolina, and one personal view :
1) Locals seem to be interbred, and somewhat backward.
2) Local Authority also seem to be interbred and backward
3) I will laugh when those who knowingly perpetrated this injustice on this man, die and go to hell for there crimes.
You are one sick state North Carolina !!!
March 26, 2012 at 6:20 pm | T-Dog
The 911 call reminds me of the rehearsed call the husband made to his father-in-law, after his wife was kidnapped, in the movie “Fargo”. The more times I hear it, the more rehearsed it sounds in my opinion.
March 26, 2012 at 7:16 pm | T-Dog
Btw, at this point in the doc, due to the incompetence and prejudice of the prosecution’s expert witnesses, the underhanded and unfair tactics employed by the prosecution and even though I feel he may be guilty, I feel an acquittal is justified. The prosecution would be responsible for that.