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Larry Ryan

What links a 2001 murder to Donovan and Claire Danes?

Donovan Claire Danes Murder Toni Collette Ben Lee DA Pennebaker Ione Skye Michael Peterson Colin Firth JeanXavier de Lestrade
Composite image of Michael Peterson, Donovan, director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Toni Collette, Albert Maysles, an image of Documentary Now! and a negroni cocktail
Composite: Guardian Design/Redferns/Getty Images/iStockphoto/AFP/ Invision/Netflix

Remaking a murderer

The seminal 2004 documentary The Staircase has a legitimate claim to have inspired all modern iterations of true-crime storytelling. That series, which had further updates, all on Netflix, followed the case of Kathleen Peterson, found dead on the staircase of her home in North Carolina, and her husband Michael Peterson, who was tried for murder. Out now is a reinterpretation miniseries on Sky Atlantic/Now.

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