Michael Peterson is a free man after wife’s murder case ends in plea deal
Novelist Michael Peterson walked out of a Durham, North Carolina, courtroom on Friday as a free man after taking a plea deal in a 15-year-long murder case. The News & Observer reports that 71-year-old Peterson has been fighting a murder case against him since the December 9, 2001, death of his high-powered executive wife, Kathleen Peterson. …
