![]() As both sides wrestle the details into their own narratives, the viewer is caught between the prosecution’s theory that Peterson attacked his wife with a blowpoke and the defense’s that she fell.Įxcept in this case, there is another, completely different version of events, one that illustrates some of the tensions in our relationship with new true crime series. ![]() It dredged up Peterson’s past as the prosecutor also would: how his secret emails to a male escort could play against him how his Vietnam “battle wounds”-injuries he talked up during his mayoral run-were actually caused by a car accident. Like Serial and Making a Murderer, the story sprawled across many hours-eight episodes, plus two follow-up episodes in 2013-and featured in-depth discussions of the evidence. The show premiered on French television in 2004 under the title Soupçons, or Suspicions, but in English it was called The Staircase. Less than two weeks later, Peterson was charged with his wife’s murder.Īfter his arrest, Michael Peterson decided to bare his whole life to a film crew, who followed him and his lawyers from the moment they began to build a defense, through his trial, and ultimately to his conviction. There was more blood than anyone would have expected, and Kathleen Peterson’s head wounds looked as though they had been inflicted in a violent attack. The police arrived and examined the area, which didn’t look good. His wife had fallen down the stairs, he said, come quickly. On December 9, 2001, Michael Peterson, a novelist and onetime mayoral candidate in Durham, North Carolina, made a distraught 911 call. Mugshot of Steven Avery, the protagonist of Making a Murderer, after he was booked on rape charges in 1985 (Manitowoc Sheriff’s Department / Wikimedia Commons) ![]() But where do we draw the line between journalism, protest, and entertainment? Laura Marsh ▪ Spring 2016 ![]() The new wave of true crime series has spawned an entire online subculture of amateur sleuths-not to mention vigilantes. ![]()
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