COLD CASE: Life, Death, and the Steps Between - The Staircase 'Murder'

A famous writer was imprisoned, then released, over the death of his wife, whose blood-drenched body was found at the bottom of a staircase. But was it an accident as he contends... or was it murder?

The house on Cedar Street lies low and quiet beneath the Durham night, its pale columns holding the last of the streetlamp’s fading amber. The neighbourhood has folded into itself. No traffic. No voices. Only the steady work of insects in the trees and the soft electrical hum from windows left awake for late television. Inside the Peterson home, the roo…