Even after his prison release, Peterson has maintained his innocence and lives in Durham, North Carolina. In July 2020, the infamous five-story Cedar street mansion where Kathleen died was put up for sale.

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Verdict. On October 10, 2003, after one of the longest trials in North Carolina history, a Durham County jury found Peterson guilty of the murder of Kathleen, and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Death. On 29 March 2012, Peterson died of a heart attack whilst inside his Australian home at Tweed Heads South, New South Wales; he was 59 years of age. Peterson was honored with a memorial service at Kirra.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Peterson is now worth $500 thousand.

Through his writing career and his income as a government employee, Місhаеl Реtеrѕоn’ѕ nеt wоrth was over $2 million before his murder trial began. After all the legal costs that he had to bear, hіѕ еѕtіmаtеd net worth as of 2020 is only around $100, 000.

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“The owl didn’t kill Kathleen Peterson,” Davis says. “The owl just knocked her in the head. She would have been fine if she’d gone up and crawled into bed and slept it off.”

Turns out Michael Peterson had a relationship with the show’s editor. French filmmaker and director of The Staircase, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, confirmed in a March interview with L’Express that Brunet had fallen in love with Peterson while they were making the documentary.

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Attorney David Rudolf