The Staircase Cast Guide: What Every Real Life Person Looks Like
The HBO Max miniseries The Staircase is based on a true story, and its all-star cast looks uncannily similar when compared to their characters' real-life counterparts. The four-part series is a dramatic retelling of the 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson and the emotional legal aftermath that followed. In one of the longest trials in the history of North Carolina, Kathleen's husband, Michael Peterson, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for her murder. Now, The Staircase, like the original 2004 true-crime documentary series of the same name, raises questions regarding what really happened.
Michael and Kathleen Peterson seemed to live a normal life in Durham, North Carolina, but when she was found dead at the bottom of their staircase on the evening of December 9, 2001, the tragedy turned their family upside down. The incident and its subsequent murder trial drew media attention as Michael was eventually convicted of killing his wife. The evidence surrounding the case is still heavily debated, with one current theory supporting the possibility that Kathleen fell down the stairs after being attacked by a barred owl outside their home.
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As is portrayed in the HBO Max miniseries, the story was first chronicled in a French documentary, also called The Staircase, which was later followed up when two new episodes were added to the original eight in 2013. The series was updated again when the documentary was released on Netflix, with another three episodes tacked on in 2018. The Kathleen Peterson murder case was also explored by a number of popular American true-crime television series, including Forensic Files,Dateline NBC, and Cold
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