The US novelist, now 78, was convicted of Kathleen’s murder in 2003, but was granted a new trial after serving eight years, when the judge ruled that a key witness had given misleading testimony. Michael Peterson has been the subject of rumour and speculation since his second wife Kathleen was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their North Carolina home in December 2001 with lacerations to her head.ĭid he do it? Was he stitched up? Was he secretly gay? Were there really countless affairs?
