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Jun 2022
44m 26s

The Staircase

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On the evening of December 9, 2001, 48-year-old Kathleen Peterson died on a back staircase in her North Carolina home. Her husband Michael claims that she fell while he was out by the pool, but other evidence would point to Michael as Kathleen's murderer.

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