
(Image credit: Sky) What happened to Elizabeth Ratliff? I don’t know, I honestly, I wish I could tell you."Ĭolin Firth and Toni Collette star as the Petersons in The Staircase. There are numerous theories, but I think she fell - she had alcohol, she had valium, flexerole. "I don’t know what it was or what happened to her. my understanding of it was, and it’s hard to believe this, but it was over 20 years ago, but the theory was that yes she fell but she tried to get up and slipped in all the blood. "Pathologists looked at all the evidence and said ‘no, she was not beaten to death’ and I could never figure it out. Speaking to This Morning, Michael shared his own theory on what happened the night Kathleen died. The blood on her head had dried, implying she was left in that predicament for some time, contradicting Michael's claims that he had found her at the bottom of the stairs no more than half an hour after the incident allegedly occurred. The medical examiner on the case found that Kathleen was bludgeoned to death with a blunt object and suffered multiple lacerations to her scalp. And this was one of those." What was Kathleen Peterson's cause of death? But did she know? I'm sure she did… in a marriage there are things that don’t need to be said sometimes. In an interview on UK show, This Morning, Michael told presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield: "No, we did not discuss it. To this very day, Michael maintains that he never had a conversation with Kathleen about his sexuality on the night she died. It was then claimed that he bludgeoned her to death with a metal tube used for stoking the fire. It was argued that Michael killed Kathleen after she found pictures of naked men on his computer and emails to a male escort.

DID ALEX DIE IN LOOKS THAT KILL TRIAL
While Peterson still to this day maintains his innocence and claims that his wife's death was a tragic accident, the prosecution at this trial back in 2003 told a very different story. (Image credit: Getty) Who is the killer in The Staircase? The real Michael Peterson in court listening to his defense attorney David Rudolph.
