Beyond Reasonable Doubt: #1 'At Home with the Petersons' and #2 'The Truth About Mike'

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3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Chris Warburton introduces the shocking story of Michael and Kathleen Peterson. What was life at 1810 Cedar Street, Durham, NC, like? What kind of couple were they? Chris talks to friends and neighbours who remember and how all that changed one December night. The 911 call all these years later still chills.

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0:00.0	Kathleen Peterson was 48 years old when she died in a pool of blood at the foot of the
0:04.7	stairs at her home in Durham, North Carolina in December 2001.
0:09.6	That much is a sad fact.
0:11.5	There was suspense. there was controversy, there was showmanship, there was extraordinary
0:19.4	violence and tragedy and sadness.
0:22.6	What happened in the minutes and hours before that are still, 16 years later, open to debate?
0:28.9	Was this a simple but tragic accident?
0:31.7	Was she murdered by her husband Michael? Or did something else
0:36.4	entirely take place that night a few weeks before Christmas all those years ago?
0:41.1	It's the theater and drama in real life that a courtroom in a
0:46.2	trial reflect but it's on television like OJ. Everyone was talking about it. Everyone
0:52.2	was interested in it. People were actually taking off work to come down to the courthouse and sit there and watch this trial.
1:00.0	I'm Chris Warburton and you're listening to Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
1:04.0	Episode 1 at Home with the Petersons.
1:07.0	Okay.
1:08.0	All right.
1:11.0	Beyond Reasonable Doubt on BBC Radio 5 Live. What's trial? My wife kind of accident. She's still breathing. What kind of accident?
1:25.4	She's still breathing.
1:27.4	What kind of accident?
1:28.4	She's still them stairs.
1:32.4	Kathleen Peters. Kathleen Peterson was found dead in the couple's home in 2001.
1:37.0	Prosecutors say she was beaten to death.
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