#44- The Sinister Staircase (Case of Michael & Kathleen Peterson)

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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From the outside - they’re perfect. Wealthy, educated, compassionate, veteran, with 5 children in a blended marriage. When Kathleen is found dead at the bottom of the staircase - all of the Petersons' family secrets come to light. We have more questions than ever… IF she fell (like Michael Peterson claims) why was there blood soaking the floor & walls? Why did Michael delete personal emails right after he found out his wife died? Why do people believe an owl (the bird) killed Kathleen? And what about the other woman in Michael’s life found at the bottom of a staircase? Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	DHQ.
0:30.8	Butterbeam Butterboom.
0:31.8	Yeah, the fame got him, okay? He was practicing this Butterbeam Butterboom shenanigans
0:36.8	right before the podcast. He was like, babe, babe, how do I make it spookier? I'm like,
0:40.9	no, don't, please. So this week's episode is about, man, we're revisiting it. About Michael
0:48.0	Peterson and Kathleen Peterson. A lot of times this case is known as the staircase case,
0:53.3	because you are talking about a very suspicious fall down the staircase. There are so many
0:58.2	plot twists in this one. There are so many opinions. This is a case, if you have a strong
1:03.1	opinion about it, this is not going to be the podcast that you were going to enjoy, because
1:06.9	I don't have a strong opinion. I have been into this for weeks now. I have watched so
1:12.5	many. I've watched the Netflix documentary series. I've watched other documentaries on
1:15.6	this case, and I think this is kind of a situation where it's solved and unsolved. So in the
1:21.2	court of law, it is technically solved, but it's unsolved in public opinion. So it's
1:25.9	kind of divided. You've got a big group of people who think Michael Peterson is completely
1:29.4	innocent. You've got a big group of people who think he's absolutely without a shadow
1:33.2	of doubt, a guilty mother for curve. And I kind of am somewhere in the middle where I feel
1:37.8	like the more I know, the less I know. So I'm going to just do a deep dive on this one.
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