Full Trial Audio: Staircase Murder - NC v Michael Peterson

Full Trial Audio

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.Michael Peterson is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. After eight years, Peterson was granted a new trial after the judge ruled a critical prosecution witness gave misleading testimony. In 2017, Peterson submitted an Alford plea to the reduced charge of manslaughter. He was sentenced to time already served and fre...