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“Egregious fabrications”: Michael Peterson blasts HBO’s The Staircase

Shots fired: Peterson joins a long line of people who are seriously miffed by the production

Evening Standard · Jun 10, 2022

Why is the director of ‘The Staircase’ docuseries so upset by HBO Max’s dramatization?

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the more than two decades since Michael Peterson’s wife Kathleen was found at the bottom of a staircase in their Durham home, the plot has thickened over and over and over again, so often that the whole story probably should have long ago hardened into a…

Tribune News Service · May 20, 2022

Michael Peterson’s real-life attorney calls HBO series’ big twist ‘completely unfair’

After viewing the first episode of HBO Max’s “The Staircase,” Charlotte attorney David Rudolf — who defended Michael Peterson in the real-life murder case depicted in the dramatized limited series — was interested to watch the inspired-by-true-events show unfold.

Tribune News Service · May 17, 2022