Plus, he opens up about the 'narrow, uncomfortable space' of the staircase and explains why it's a character in itself.

Many people are already familiar with the tragic death of Kathleen Peterson, who in 2001 was dead at the bottom of a staircase in her North Carolina home. Authorities identified her husband, novelist ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...