HBO Max has released its new series “The Staircase,” a dramatic retelling of the 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson and the Durham murder trial of her husband, Michael — the longest murder trial in North ...

Many people are already familiar with the tragic death of Kathleen Peterson, who in 2001 was dead at the bottom of a staircase in her North Carolina home. Authorities identified her husband, novelist ...

HBO Max has premiered its new series “The Staircase,” a dramatic retelling of the 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson and the Durham murder trial of husband, Michael. The dramatic series, starring Colin ...

Juliette Binoche as Sophie Brunet and Joel McKinnon Miller as Larry Pollard in the HBO Max series “The Staircase.” HBO/Warner Bros HBO Max has premiered its new series “The Staircase,” a dramatic ...

The grave for Kathleen Peterson sits in the shade of a towering oak tree, attended by mockingbirds, roses and a growing crowd of gawkers. Her tombstone is nearly hidden by bushes and shrubs, but in ...

Colin Firth as Michael Peterson and Toni Collette as Kathleen Peterson in the HBO Max series “The Staircase.” HBO/Warner Bros HBO Max’s new series “The Staircase” is a dramatic retelling of the 2001 ...

"Innocent? Guilty? The Peterson ending will always be tragic," says a documentarian producer on the infamous fate of Michael Peterson, the novelist and political candidate convicted in 2003 of ...

Defense attorney David Rudolf holds up a manual for homicide investigators and asks Durham police Cpl. J.C. McDowell if she had read about crime scene management. Later he read a section about the ...

From left, Mike Peterson’s son, Todd Peterson, and Bill Peterson, Mike Peterson’s brother, pay attention to the proceedings Thursday, May 1, 2003 during a hearing in the murder case of Mike Peterson.

Kathleen Peterson's family members and Mike Peterson's defense team are squaring off about a national news magazine that featured video of the scene of Kathleen's death. The segment aired Friday on 20 ...