The mind-boggling case of Michael Peterson‘s wife Kathleen’s death is about to get a whole new look on HBO. A dramatization of the case, which has been famously dubbed “The Staircase” over ...

The gripping HBO Max true crime series The Staircase follows the 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson. Her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, became the center of the investigation and was eventually ...

Michael Peterson, the Durham novelist accused of murdering his wife, wants to make sure a jury at his retrial doesn’t hear evidence about his contact with a gay escort and his interest in gay porn.

Michael Peterson (center) is surrounded by family members and reporters as he walks into the Durham County Courthouse to turn himself in for in connection with the death of his wife Kathleen Peterson.

David Rudolf — the real-life North Carolina defense lawyer who represented Michael Peterson after he was accused of killing his wife Kathleen — knows this, and he isn’t happy about it.

DURHAM, North Carolina -- Durham novelist Michael Peterson entered an Alford plea Friday to manslaughter in the 2001 death of his wife Kathleen. The plea deal came before Peterson faced retrial on ...