The Staircase Murders is a 2007 Lifetime television film directed by Tom McLoughlin and starring Treat Williams, Samaire Armstrong, and Kevin Pollak.
[1] Based on Aphrodite Jones' book A Perfect Husband, the film was written by Jones and Donald Martin.
[2] It tells the story of Michael Peterson,[2] who was convicted in 2003 of killing his wife by beating her over the head.
During the trial it was revealed that many years previously a friend of Peterson's, whose children he would later adopt, died under seemingly similar circumstances.
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