Her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, became the center of the investigation ... he was arrested and charged for planting a homemade pipe bomb in a Duke University office, where he was attending ...

So, you’ve seen “The Staircase,” director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s version of the winding case against Michael Peterson. The novelist ... admitted to placing a pipe bomb submerged ...

Michael Peterson, now 78, is a war novelist and former newspaper columnist ... was sentenced to four years in a federal penitentiary for planting a pipe bomb outside of a Duke University ...

At 2:40 a.m. on December 9, 2001, Durham, North Carolina-based novelist Michael Peterson made a frantic ... These injuries could not be produced with a pipe, hammer, knife, tire iron, or even ...

During that time it was Michael Peterson doing the prison visits. In fact, as the Greensboro News and Record notes in their 1997 profile of the writer called “Successful Author Lives the Quiet ...

Blows from such a pipe, he said Tuesday ... the man who it says committed murder on Dec. 9, 2001 -- Michael Peterson, Durham novelist, arts patron, onetime candidate for mayor and Kathleen's ...

We love to play detective, which might explain why Durham’s most notorious murder trial — did author Michael Peterson kill his ... Throw in a pipe and a baggy sweatshirt, and it’s pretty ...

Paramedics asked Michael what he had been doing when they arrived at the scene. The novelist said that he had been sitting at their pool and smoking his pipe while Kathleen went inside to catch up ...

Bestselling North Carolina novelist Michael Peterson fought for a new trial ever since a jury in 2003 convicted him of murdering his wife, a business executive. Kathleen's body was discovered in ...

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