Saturday, April 8, 2017

'Dateline' The bludgeoned wife, bi-sexual husband & the male escort

"Dateline" (NBC) can be seen each Friday evening at 9/8 p.m. It aired in Albuquerque, NM at 8 p.m. (central time) on KOB 4. Last night's episode on April 7, 2017 was called, “Down the back staircase.” In the overnight TV ratings it garnered 4.04 million TV viewers overall. It reached 0.8 million TV viewers in the all important 18 to 49 adult demographic (9-11 p.m.). “Hawaii Five-0" (CBS) grabbed 8.73 overall & 1.0 with adults. “Shark Tank” (ABC) nabbed 4.76 overall & 1.1 with adults.

“Dateline” is an investigative program focusing on crime & murder in the United States. The reporter and narrator is Dennis Murphy.

“Down the back staircase.” Michael Peterson found his wife Kathleen at the bottom of the stairs back in December of 2001. There were washes of blood on the walls in that staircase. She had died. Michael said his wife fell down the stairs and it was an accident. Police detectives began to believe that it wasn't just a fall. Michael claimed that the police were out to get him. He wrote untruths about them in his newspaper column. He then became the prime suspect in Kathleen's supposed death fall. Their marriage was split wide open and they were in heavy financial debt. The autopsy report revealed that Kathleen was bludgeoned in the head. Michael also hired a male escort during his marriage.

Watch episodes of “Dateline” streaming online at NBC. Click photo.
http://www.nbc.com/dateline/video/down-the-back-staircase/3495286
(NBC photo. Michael Peterson at his trial for murder)

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