re: The Staircase: Netflix Original - worth a watch?

He killed his wife

He killed the German lady

Margaret is his biological daughter

Could have easily been condensed into 4-5 episodes. Evil Genius was much more intriguing, in my opinion.

Also The Jinx was the best crime doc I’ve ever seen

I feel like John C McGinley could play a really good version of Peterson in a movie.

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Yes, it was dishonest about the facts.

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Again with how bad the prosecution was, how would you be confident in any of the evidence presented in trial being scientically accurate or unmanipulated?

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The Jinx

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hoping to start this soon

Watched the first two episodes, and fell asleep during both. Doubt I pick it back up.


I was living in NC when this happened and remember how obsessed people were over it. I remember believing at the time he killed her, but the motives they talked about the first 2 episodes didn't really make a lot of sense.

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The "Attacked by an owl" Theory:

It sounds extremely far fetched, but the gashes on the head, plus the fact that there were microscopic owl feathers in one of her hands, and the blood stains mentioned above. The fact that it was winter time consistent with Barn Owls in that area and their backyard was fairly wooded, that is the only way one would've attacked though, if Kathleen got too close to a nest, but she was intoxicated so could she have stumbled and shaken a tree and disrupted one? (I'm playing devils advocate of course)

Then add the wounds like on the back and elbows and face and the fact that getting attacked on the head by a Barn Owl, is equivalent to getting hit by a baseball bat, so it would've disoriented an already intoxicated woman........

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To add on to this. Someone in their neighborhood was attacked by an owl and was seriously messed up from the encounter.

Apparently one of their neighbors who was a pseudo bird expert went to the police as soon as he saw the head wound photos. He was certain it was an owl attack.

It does help explain why she has large gashes on her head but no bruising or skull trauma.

The star of the show is David Rudolf. He did a fantastic job with this case. Were it not for the judge allowing prejudicial evidence in during the trial, I think Peterson walks. The judge later saying he shouldn't have allowed certain evidence in was telling and scary.

I don't know if he did it or not but one thing I feel is relevant is the fact that Michael Peterson reached out to the french documentary crew to film the entire process. If you're a guilty man trying to beat a murder charge, the last thing I think you would want to do is draw attention to yourself. It's not like the doc aired during the trail as some sort of PR stunt.

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I found it interesting seeing the defense team prepare and all the behind the scenes stuff

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It was interesting, while also being rather boring at the same time.