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What did ‘Staircase’ lawyer David Rudolf think of the HBO Max drama’s final episode?

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As Antonio Campos developed his idea for making a dramatized version of the Michael Peterson murder case, the man who defended Peterson — Charlotte attorney David Rudolf — says he tried to be as helpful to the process as possible.

Tribune News Service · Jun 9, 2022

Lawyer praises HBO show’s owl theory depiction, but says the rest of it is for the birds

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For years, Charlotte defense attorney David Rudolf has imagined a scenario in which Durham business executive Kathleen Peterson died not at the hands of her husband, but at the talons of a barred owl — and it’s a scenario he has famously described as “pretty persuasive and…

Tribune News Service · May 31, 2022

Is 'The Staircase' a true story? What the HBO show gets right and wrong

Just how true is this true crime drama? We break down what 'The Staircase' on HBO Max gets right and wrong about the real life story.

Inverse · May 19, 2022

Truth about The Staircase murder exposed - deadly owl or killer husband

Sky's new drama The Staircase is about the death of Kathleen Peterson in December 2001, with her husband Michael Peterson among the theories over who or what was responsible for such

Daily Mirror · May 5, 2022

‘The Staircase’: Colin Firth breaks bad as a real-life liar, cheater and possibly killer

In this well-written HBO Max series, the good-guy actor expertly plays a duplicitous man whose discovery of his wife’s body casts suspicion on him and divides his family.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 3, 2022

‘It’s the tip of the iceberg’: shining a light on the horror of wrongful convictions

In his book American Injustice, criminal defence lawyer David Rudolf looks at abuses of power and corruption that have put innocent people behind bars

The Guardian - US · Jan 31, 2022