![]() ![]() “In fact, I thought they were a very colourful couple. ![]() “I never saw one bit of trouble,” says Pollard, 74, from his neighbouring home on Cedar Street. He never believed that Michael Peterson was guilty of killing his wife, a telecoms company executive. Perhaps the most eager viewer will be Larry Pollard, who was the Petersons’ nextdoor neighbour and used to play in the house as a child. ![]() Now the couple’s shocking and elusive story is told in The Staircase, a new drama series starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette. He was convicted and spent nearly eight years in prison, only for his life sentence to be overturned amid questions about the reliability of a key witness. Days later Peterson, then 58, was charged with first-degree murder of his 48-year-old wife. Investigators found walls heavily spattered with blood and believed that Kathleen’s severe injuries were difficult to reconcile with a fall. ![]()
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