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S1 E168: Two Accidental Falls Down the Stairs
Original Air Date: Sep 16, 2024
The State kept trying to challenge the Defense's medical expert during their long cross-examination; Dr. Jan claimed the experts who testified for the State were incorrect by declaring that Kathleen Peterson died from several blows to her head.
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S1 E168: Two Accidental Falls Down the Stairs
Original Air Date: Sep 16, 2024
The State kept trying to challenge the Defense's medical expert during their long cross-examination; Dr. Jan claimed the experts who testified for the State were incorrect by declaring that Kathleen Peterson died from several blows to her head.
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S1 E167: No Brain Contusions, No Skull Fractures
Original Air Date: Sep 16, 2024
Kathleen Peterson had no brain contusions and no skull fractures; those are two main points that the Defense's medical expert agrees with the prosecutor; Neuropathologist Dr. Jan Leestma testifies and holds firm.
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S1 E166: Miscalculating And Misdiagnosing
Original Air Date: Sep 16, 2024
The State challenges the Defense's neuropathologist to forensically review the death of Kathleen; prosecutors claim the defendant was responsible for killing her with a blunt object and then left her to bleed to death.
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S1 E165: Neuropathologist Faces Cross Examination
Original Air Date: Sep 16, 2024
The Defense's medical expert concluded that Kathleen Peterson's death was inconsistent with a beating based on several measures; forensic neuropathologist, Dr. Jan Leestma, had more questions to answer during cross examination.
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S1 E164: Case Records From The Medical Examiner's Office
Original Air Date: Sep 13, 2024
Defense expert Leestma dismisses the state's theories on Kathleen's death; the defense submits decades of blunt trauma autopsy reports; Leestma to perform cross-pattern analysis for the jury.
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S1 E163: Analyzing Elizabeth Ratliff's Death
Original Air Date: Sep 13, 2024
Jury hears about Kathleen's wounds; neuropathology expert testifies; Elizabeth Ratliff's similar staircase death in 1985 is a key factor; Dr. Leestma gives an opinion on Ratliff's death.
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S1 E162: Disagreeing With The Autopsy Report
Original Air Date: Sep 13, 2024
The jury get detailed scientific analysis of the wounds that Kathleen sustained to the back of the head; the defense's medical expert on the stand, Dr. Jan Leestma, tries to make clear to the jury that he flat out disagrees with the evidence.
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S1 E161: Head Wounds From Stair Steps
Original Air Date: Sep 13, 2024
Defense's neuropathologist has questions to answer about the death of Kathleen Peterson; Dr. Jan Leestma is there to explain why he believed her head injuries were the result of an accidental slip-and-fall down a flight of stairs.
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S1 E160: Poking Holes in the Autopsy Report
Original Air Date: Sep 12, 2024
The Defense's expert on the stand contradicted another key point from the autopsy done on Kathleen Peterson; instead of seven lacerations as the medical examiner concluded, the Defense's expert claimed there were actually four.
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S1 E159: Defense Begins Their Case To Jurors
Original Air Date: Sep 12, 2024
Defense forensic pathologist testifies; jury returns as defense begins case, arguing accidental fall; Dr. Leestma says a blow poke is an unlikely weapon, wounds inconsistent with beating.
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S1 E158: Dr. Jan Leestma
Original Air Date: Sep 12, 2024
The defense begins its case to jurors the same way prosecutors ended, with the medical findings on the death of Kathleen Peterson; their first witness to the stand is a neuropathologist who reviewed the medical findings on Kathleen's death.
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S1 E157: State Rests Their Case
Original Air Date: Sep 12, 2024
Medical examiner Dr. Deborah Radisch is on the stand for a third day in a row; the State's medical examiner wrapped up her long testimony to jurors; Michael Peterson's defense worked hard to try to raise reasonable doubt about her medical findings.
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S1 E156: Fatal Concussive Brain Injury
Original Air Date: Sep 11, 2024
Michael Peterson's defense keeps challenging Dr. Deborah Radisch, the medical examiner who had examined Kathleen's remains; the defense wants to knock down this expert's findings in its push to convince jurors Kathleen accidentally fell to her death.
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S1 E155: Same Exact Murder Twice
Original Air Date: Sep 11, 2024
The State's medical examiner dismissed the Defense's assertion that Kathleen Peterson died in a fall down a flight of stairs after mixing Valium and alcohol; Dr. Deborah Radisch was in the middle of a long cross-examination.
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S1 E154: Past Medical Cases of Fatal Falls
Original Air Date: Sep 11, 2024
Past medical records become a big part of the cross-examination of the State's medical examiner on the stand.
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S1 E153: Multiple Lacerations Proves an Attack
Original Air Date: Sep 11, 2024
Michael Peterson's defense team has more questions for the State's medical examiner who performed the forensic autopsy on Kathleen Peterson.
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S1 E152: Clinical Autopsy Vs. Forensic Autopsy
Original Air Date: Sep 10, 2024
Radisch explains two autopsy types, clinical and forensic; Ratliff's clinical autopsy concludes natural death; the forensic rules homicide; Radisch doubts stair falls cause multiple head wounds.
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S1 E151: Second Medical Opinion on Elizabeth Ratliff's Death
Original Air Date: Sep 10, 2024
Jurors were given comparisons of the two deaths that were central to this case; on the stand, medical examiner Dr. Deborah Radisch gave her medical findings on Elizabeth Ratliff's death.
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S1 E150: A Light Yet Rigid Murder Weapon
Original Air Date: Sep 10, 2024
Jurors hear about Kathleen Peterson's body examination; Dr. Radisch and forensic pathologists begin an investigation hours after her death to determine the cause.
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S1 E149: Dr. Deborah Radisch
Original Air Date: Sep 10, 2024
Medical examiner Dr. Deborah Radisch elaborates on the autopsy she performed; jurors get graphic details about the external examination on Kathleen Peterson's remains.
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S1 E148: Final Witness For The State
Original Air Date: Sep 9, 2024
The medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Kathleen Peterson took the stand; Dr. Deborah Radisch had been on the stand before during hearings over her autopsy report and visual exhibits.
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S1 E147: Money Issues at Home
Original Air Date: Sep 9, 2024
Michael Peterson's defense tries to discredit the testimony of Kathleen's younger sister during cross-examination; the girl claims that months before Kathleen died, she was stressed and worried about money issues.
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S1 E146: All the Financial Worries
Original Air Date: Sep 9, 2024
The jury listens to Kathleen Peterson's sister testify about cleaning up all the blood after investigators were done at the scene where Kathleen died.
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S1 E145: Fireplace Blow Pokes
Original Air Date: Sep 9, 2024
Michael Peterson's sister-in-law recalls the fireplace accessories that she gave as gifts to the Petersons and the rest of the family; prosecutors alleged that something like a fireplace blow poke was the murder weapon.
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S1 E144: Red Neurons
Original Air Date: Sep 6, 2024
Jurors turn their attention from Elizabeth Ratliff's death back to Kathleen Peterson's; a neuropathologist tells them she had been dead for hours and that deep cuts to the back of Kathleen's head indicate she had been attacked.
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S1 E143: The Case of the Other Staircase Murder
Original Air Date: Sep 6, 2024
Michael Peterson's legal team drilled the State's Neuropathologist during cross-examination; Doctor Aaron Gleckman was called in to do another autopsy on Elizabeth Ratliff 18 years after her death.
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S1 E142: Duplicate Murders
Original Air Date: Sep 6, 2024
Jurors learn about a second alleged homicide linked to Michael Peterson, despite the efforts of his defense to keep it out; the defense cross-examines the State's neuropathologist, Dr. Aaron Gleckman.
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S1 E141: Homicidal Assault
Original Air Date: Sep 6, 2024
Jury heard from the State's neuropathologist who did the second autopsy on Elizabeth Ratliff; the State accused Michael of pulling off the same murder twice; on the stand, Dr. Aaron Gleckman called Ratliff's death a homicidal assault.
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S1 E140: The Second Autopsy of Elizabeth Ratliff
Original Air Date: Sep 5, 2024
According to her younger sister, Kathleen Peterson was very unhappy at work and was stressed out about laying workers off; prosecutors pause Candace Zamperini's testimony about her sister and bring in neuropathologist Dr. Aaron Gleckman.
Sep 26
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S1 E139: Victim's Sister Testifies
Original Air Date: Sep 5, 2024
Kathleen Peterson's sister, Candace Zamperini, tells jurors more about Kathleen; she testifies about the time her sister first met Michael and began their relationship; according to Candace, months before she died Kathleen was worried about money.
Sep 26
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S1 E138: More Details on Elizabeth Ratliff's Death
Original Air Date: Sep 5, 2024
The jury heard details about the death of Elizabeth Ratliff; Amy Beth Berner, her friend, claimed German police were there only fifteen minutes, declared it an accidental fall and left without taking the body; the Defense had questions for Berner.
Sep 26
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S1 E137: Agent Deaver Wraps Up His Long Testimony
Original Air Date: Sep 5, 2024
The defense cross-examines blood expert Deaver; he maintains tests prove the beating, not a fall; Deaver concludes his testimony; prosecutors shift focus to Elizabeth Ratliff's 1985 death.
Sep 26
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S1 E136: Agent Deaver Under Redirect Examination
Original Air Date: Sep 4, 2024
The defense attacks the blood expert's credibility; unable to disqualify him, they challenge his report; Deaver maintains Kathleen died from head blows; he emphasizes simplicity in testing.
Sep 26
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S1 E135: State Agent Returns To The Witness Stand
Original Air Date: Sep 4, 2024
The long cross-examination of the State's blood spatter expert continues; agent Duane Deaver back testifies about his experiments where he tried to show what he believed really happened to Kathleen Peterson in the stairwell of her home.
Sep 26
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S1 E134: Elizabeth Ratliff To Agent Duane Deaver
Original Air Date: Sep 4, 2024
The jury listens to the woman who discovered Elizabeth Ratliff dead in her home back in Germany; prosecutors want to link her death to what happened to Kathleen Peterson and prove that Michael killed his wife; agent Duane Deaver returns to the stand.
Sep 26
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S1 E133: Tragic Coincidence
Original Air Date: Sep 4, 2024
The cross-examination begins on the U.S. Army investigator who looked into the death of Elizabeth Ratliff; her death is central to the staircase murder trial because it is similar to what happened to Kathleen Peterson.
Sep 25
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S1 E132: Defense Challenges Testimony About Elizabeth Ratliff
Original Air Date: Sep 3, 2024
Nanny testifies about finding Ratliff dead, wearing boots with lights on; friends give testimony about Ratliff's death, but the jury is absent; prosecutors highlight similarities to Peterson's case.
Sep 25
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S1 E131: Elizabeth Ratliff's Sister And Nanny
Original Air Date: Sep 3, 2024
Elizabeth Ratliff's sister testifies that Michael Peterson drew up a will for Elizabeth where he named himself the sole beneficiary.
Sep 25
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S1 E130: A Doctor's Second Opinion
Original Air Date: Sep 3, 2024
Jurors hear the pathologist on the stand admit that he would not have done the autopsy on Elizabeth Ratliff if police had suspected foul play, because Dr. Larry Barnes is not a forensic pathologist; he was an army doctor in Germany.
Sep 25
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S1 E129: Critiquing Ratliff's Initial Autopsy Report
Original Air Date: Sep 3, 2024
Dr. Barnes admits to a non-forensic autopsy on Ratliff in 1985; he corrects his work on the stand and agrees with the blunt force finding after review; prosecutors link the Peterson case.
Sep 25
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S1 E128: Critiquing An Alleged Natural Death
Original Air Date: Sep 2, 2024
Prosecutors challenge Ratliff's first autopsy report; the initial conclusion states natural death from cerebral hemorrhage and fall; the report becomes crucial for the Defense claiming Peterson's wife died from an accidental fall.
Sep 25
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S1 E127: Questioning Foul Play in Elizabeth Ratliff's Death
Original Air Date: Sep 2, 2024
The death of Elizabeth Ratliff was the focus at this point in the trial; another close friend of hers was called to testify; prosecutors wanted to tie her death to what happened to Kathleen Peterson because their deaths were so similar.
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