Michael Peterson trial begins in Durham. District Attorney Jim Hardin, assisted by Freda Black, argues that a blow poke is the likely murder weapon. Defense attorney David Rudolf says Kathleen ...

The Contradictory Evidence: There’s still the question about what led to Michael and Kathleen Peterson’s alleged fight. Also, if the fire poker wasn’t the murder weapon, then this case is ...

Throughout Mike Peterson's trial, the fireplace tool stood in for the device that the prosecution believed was the real murder weapon ... of Peterson's wife Kathleen. Rudolf again held up the ...

The early portion of “The Staircase” focuses on Michael Peterson ... murder weapon, prosecutors suggested the item in question could have been the couple’s “blow poke,” a gift from ...

Kathleen Peterson's sister, said in a TV interview that "she has been told by the District Attorney's Office that they have identified some object as the murder weapon," which would cast doubt on ...

Michael Peterson trial begins in Durham. District Attorney Jim Hardin says a blow poke is the likely murder weapon. Defense attorney David Rudolf says Kathleen Peterson died from an accidental fall.

In 1997, Michael and Kathleen married ... The prosecution alleged the murder weapon was a Peterson family fireplace poker that had mysteriously “gone missing” — until the family found ...

On the blowpoke that the defense team found in Mike Peterson's garage after prosecutors intimated that a blowpoke was the murder weapon and was missing from the house. Kathleen's sister ...

Defense attorneys contend Kathleen Peterson's death was from a tragic ... "They focused on a murder weapon that didn't exist," said Anthony, "They focused on a [blow poke] that was absent.

Saacks said at the time that investigators tested it as a possible murder weapon, but ruled it out as the instrument that killed Kathleen Peterson. Seven months after Cline was sworn in to office ...

Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, “The Staircase” followed the trial of novelist Michael Peterson ... Michael was charged with Kathleen’s murder, and was found guilty in 2003.