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Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle

Beyond Reasonable Doubt: #12 'Compromise and Confrontation'

Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle

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3.71K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Michael Peterson returns to court in the hope of doing a deal. Kathleen's sisters are determined that he should be reminded that their loss hasn't got any easier over the 16 years since she died...

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0:00.0

I'm really

0:04.8

A crossover's maple syrup Greek yogurt with crunolays kicking off a sala berry

0:08.9

tsunami.

0:09.9

Let's take a look at the headlines this morning.

0:13.0

President Trump makes history addressing the conservative...

0:16.0

I'm Lena Tolette with your top stories.

0:20.0

Today Durham novelist Mike Peterson is expected to enter a plea to involuntary manslaughter in the death of his wife

0:30.5

Right it's Friday morning and it's another sunny day in Durham Blue Sky and we are on our

0:37.7

way to see what is likely to be the conclusion to this case even though as we will see today so many lingering questions still

0:47.0

remain. Okay. All right. Beyond reasonablebt on BBC Radio 5 Live. This whole Alford plea was so confusing. We heard it on the radio and my mother was saying,

1:12.0

he pled guilty and I said, no he didn't. Yeah, he pled guilty.

1:12.9

And I said, no, he didn't.

1:14.1

Yeah, it is confusing.

1:16.2

Well, my question would be is how satisfactory

1:19.7

is this to the family of Kathleen Peterson. It's getting on for 11 in the morning and we're in court 7D in the

1:32.7

in the Durham Courthouse. When we got here earlier, we were one of the first to arrive.

1:36.7

There was no fuss.

1:37.8

Security was tight as you'd expect, but not so it held us up that much.

1:41.2

And we're now sitting alongside one two three four five

1:45.9

cameras and their crews a few other journalists but we're in the part of the

1:49.6

court where the jury would normally sit but of course Michael Peterson's fate today is not in the

1:54.1

hands of 12 citizens of Durham but in the hands of Judge Orlando Hudson.

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