Peterson said that Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the original director of "The Staircase" documentary, "pimped us out" by selling access to his files.

Michael Peterson was charged with murdering his wife Kathleen in their Durham home in December 2001. The story of Kathleen’s death and Michael’s trial have been told in a Netflix documentary called ...

HBO Max has released its new series “The Staircase,” a dramatic retelling of the 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson and the Durham murder trial of her husband, Michael — the longest murder trial in North ...

"Innocent? Guilty? The Peterson ending will always be tragic," says a documentarian producer on the infamous fate of Michael Peterson, the novelist and political candidate convicted in 2003 of ...

HBO Max’s new series “The Staircase” dramatizes the real-life events covered in the French docuseries of the same name created by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. It explores the life of Michael Peterson ...

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind docuseries The Staircase has made another crime thriller based on true events and it's coming to the BBC in the UK. Created and written by ...

Durham, NC -- A federal bankruptcy judge refused Thursday to allow a wrongful death lawsuit against Michael Peterson to proceed while the state Court of Appeals considers whether to throw out his ...

More than two years after Mike Peterson was found guilty of killing his wife at their Durham home, there is a call to put the novelist on trial for a second staircase-related death. A new article in ...

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 ...

Flashforward to 2011. It has been eight years since Peterson was incarcerated in prison. His family and his lawyers have never given up hope for an appeal, but the North Carolina Court of Appeal and ...

Freda Black, the former assistant district attorney who helped prosecute Michael Peterson for murder, was found dead at her home over the weekend, Durham police confirmed Monday. Police found Black ...

David Rudolf is best known these days for his appearance in the Netflix documentary series “The Staircase,” getting lots of screen time as the lawyer for accused murderer Michael Peterson. Since ...