A Kansas man has been arrested and charged with the deaths of his girlfriend and her daughter after he called police to report them missing. The Ford County Sheriff’s Office said it was called to a home in Spearville Wednesday afternoon, when Michael A. Peterson told them his girlfriend and daughter were missing. Deputies noted …
December 9th, 2001, novelist Michael Peterson calls 911 telling the operator that he’s found his wife at the bottom of stairs in their home. She is still breathing, but there’s lots of blood coming from her head. Kathleen Peterson later dies. When police and emergency personnel first enter the home, Peterson’s injuries are characterized as …
Freda Black, the former assistant district attorney who prosecuted Michael Peterson in his 2003 murder trial, was reportedly found dead in her North Carolina home. She was 57. Durham Police spokesperson Wil Glenn told USA Today that Black’s body was sent to the medical examiner for an autopsy but her death “does not appear suspicious …
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. …
