Show of the week: The Staircase: Last Chance
Ten years ago, crime novelist Michael Peterson was convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death.
Ten years ago, crime novelist Michael Peterson was convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death in their North Carolina home. The case’s open questions attracted French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, whose gripping 2004 miniseries The Staircase followed Peterson’s trial from opening remarks to the reading of his sentence: life without parole. But fraudulent testimony by a prosecution expert opened the chance of a retrial, and in this sobering new one-hour follow-up, Peterson finally learns if his prison ordeal is over.
Monday, March 11, at 10 p.m., Sundance
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