The story of crime novelist Michael Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife Kathleen in 2001, takes yet another strange turn as he gets his shot at an appeal and a possible overturn of his guilty verdict, captured in the two-part sequel to the riveting documentary The Staircase. Director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade offers his take on Peterson?s story and the possibility of justice finally being served.
Over at The Daily Beast, you can read a feature that I had a hand in bringing to life, "At the Bottom of The Staircase," in which Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the director of Sundance's addictive documentary series The Staircase, writes about Michael Peterson, the owl theory, justice, and more.
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade is an Academy Award?winning documentary filmmaker and the director of the riveting 2004 documentary The Staircase (a.k.a. Soup�ons), currently airing on Sundance Channel. The eight-hour cinema verit� series recounts the serpentine trial of crime novelist Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered at the bottom of a narrow staircase in their Durham, North Carolina, home in 2001. The Staircase returns with two new episodes, entitled ?The Staircase: Last Chance,? beginning March 4 on Sundance Channel, and follows Peterson?s latest appeal attempt. What follows is a first-person piece written by de Lestrade for The Daily Beast.
When I finally completed The Staircase in September 2004, I felt as emotionally drained as David...
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