The true crime community has followed The Staircase for many years, tracing the death of Kathleen Peterson and the trial of her spouse, Michael Peterson. The story includes unexpected developments, ...

Colin Firth will play Michael Peterson in a series adaptation of “The Staircase,” which has been ordered to series at HBO Max. HBO Max has ordered eight episodes of the limited series, which is based ...

Michael Peterson was convicted of killing his wife, Kathleen Peterson, but that was just the beginning of the long story that would eventually inspire a HBO Max miniseries. Michael, a novelist and ...

In the early 2000s, the death of Kathleen Peterson in her Durham, North Carolina, home captivated the public and became the subject of intense scrutiny. Her husband, fiction writer Michael Peterson, ...

There are many levels to "The Staircase," a drama as much about the making of the docuseries chronicling Michael Peterson's murder trial as the salacious case itself. While the episodes occasionally ...

Antonio Campos’ depiction of documentary filmmakers Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Sophie Brunet in HBO Max’s “The Staircase” has led to a public dispute over their portrayal in the miniseries adaptation ...

One of the more interesting stories from the Netflix documentary series “The Staircase,” which follows the murder trial of Michael Peterson of Durham, happened off-camera. It had long been rumored ...

Michael Peterson was sentenced to life in prison in 2003 for the murder of his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, in the trial that inspired 'The Staircase' Michael Peterson was convicted of killing his ...