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The Staircase Murder Trial
S1, EP35 "Experienced Armorer Opines"
Prosecutors bring in Bryan Carpenter, an armorer who worked in the film industry, to stress the importance of the armorer's job to ensure the safety of the cast and crew.
S1, EP36 "The Role Of The Armorer"
Muzzle discipline and finger off the trigger were some of the firearm safety protocols jurors learned.
S1, EP21 "The First Police Officers Who Arrived"
The jury listens to the first of many police officers involved in the initial stages of the investigation into what happened to Kathleen Peterson.
S1, EP22 "Corporal Recalls the Death Scene"
Corporal J.C. McDowell tells jurors how bloody the scene was where Kathleen Peterson was found.
S1, EP23 "Arriving at a Staged Fatal Accident"
Jurors hear more testimony from the first police officers at the scene; they say they saw a frantic Michael and Kathleen lying in a pool of blood; prosecutors stress to jurors the events of those early morning hours following Kathleen's death.
S1, EP24 "Suspicious Death"
The Defense tries to question how police processed what was considered a crime scene after the death of Kathleen Peterson; one of the officers on the stand admits that they didn't rope off the scene for nearly an hour.
S1, EP5 "James Rose"
Michael Peterson told investigators that he was by the pool with only a T-shirt and shorts on the night his wife, Kathleen, died; he said he eventually found her unresponsive at the foot of the stairs and frantically called 911.
S1, EP6 "Observing the Frantic Husband"
Michael Peterson did not give first responders detailed information when they arrived at the house after his frantic 911 call; James Rose said that he did not know if Michael was intentionally withholding info about his wife.
S1, EP7 "Hearing From The First Responders"
The jury heard details about the final minutes of Kathleen Peterson's life from the testimonies of the first responders who arrived at the Petersons' house.
S1, EP8 "Fire Captain Remembers"
Jurors listen to more from the first responders about the night Kathleen Peterson died; they said they arrived to a bloody scene with her husband, Michael, agitated and upset.
S1, EP34 "No More Training Days Or Safety Meetings"
A number of accidental gun discharges occurred in the days before Halyna Hutchins was killed on the set of the movie "Rust".
S1, EP33 "Line Producer Testifies"
The lead case agent, Corporal Alexandra Hancock tries to clear up some things for the jury during her redirect examination; next in the State's case, testimony comes from one of the producers of the movie "Rust".
S1, EP32 "Lead Case Agent Defends Her Investigation"
The Defense raises questions on whether other crew members on set pointed the finger at Hannah Gutierrez immediately following the shooting of Halyna Hutchins.
S1, EP31 "Lead Agent Faces Cross-Examination"
Hannah Gutierrez's lawyer tries to show that the police and the Rust producers used Hannah as a scapegoat to find someone to blame for the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
S1, EP30 "Mixing Live Rounds With Dummy Rounds"
Jurors watch the last part of the recorded police interview of Hannah Gutierrez; she told the lead case agent all kinds of things that happened on the movie set.
S1, EP29 "Inconsistent And Contradictory Statements"
Prosecutors play back Gutierrez's entire police interviews for the jury; The lead investigator says that Hannah made a few inconsistent and cotradictory statements in both her interviews.
S1, EP28 "Unedited Police Interview"
The second video-recorded interview of Hannah Gutierrez was much longer and more elaborate than the first. She was with her lawyer and police asked detailed questions about the circumstances that led up to Halyna Hutchins' death.
S1, EP27 "Listening To Her Explain Herself"
The jury hears back-to-back interviews that Hannah Gutierrez gave to police following the shooting of Halyna Hutchins; in her second interview, she told them she never recovered a live round on a film set.
S1, EP26 "The Police Interviews"
Jurors watched more police interviews. The interviews were played out unedited in the courtroom. When Gutierrez interviewed with police a second time, she was with her lawyer, but she had not been charged with a crime yet.
S1, EP25 "Revealing Police Body Cam Footage"
The jury watches police body cam footage and the initial police interview of Hannah Gutierrez; it was all recorded after Halyna Hutchins was shot on the "Rust" movie set; the police body cam footage is quite revealing.
S1, EP24 "Lead Investigator Takes The Stand"
The lead investigator on this case is the one who spent the most time with Hannah Gutierrez on set following the shooting; she was also in the interrogation room during multiple rounds of police questioning.
S1, EP23 "Trigger Was Pulled On The Gun"
Jurors heard from a gun and ballistics expert about his opinion on what happened to Halyna Hutchins when she was shot and killed on a movie set.
S1, EP22 "The Firearms Expert Explains"
A firearms expert testifying for the prosecution got up in front of the jury to tell them about the exact replica of the gun that caused the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
S1, EP21 "Forensics Expert Testimony"
Authorities extract supposedly incriminating text messages linked to Hannah in the days before and after Halyna Hutchins was accidentally shot and killed on a movie set.
S1, EP20 "Accidental Not Homicidal"
The chief medical examiner testifies for the state; Halyna Hutchins was shot in the chest at close range during the filming of the indie movie, "Rust"; she was later airlifted to a hospital where she was pronounced dead hours later.
S1, EP20 "The 911 Call Plays"
The state investigator who looked through three years of the Petersons' financial records wraps up his testimony; prosecutors bring up the 911 call that brought first responders to the Peterson home.
S1, EP19 "Allegations of a Desperate, Broke Husband"
Agent Raymond Young uses colorful charts, numbers and financial papers to detail the accounts of both Michael and Kathleen Peterson; prosecutors argue the defendant had more to gain with his wife Kathleen dead.
S1, EP18 "Deadly Foul Play Over Money"
The police suspect foul play in the death of Kathleen Peterson, who was found bloodied at the bottom of the family's staircase.
S1, EP17 "Agent Raymond Young Goes To Work"
The Defense pushed back on the idea that Michael Peterson had a financial motive to kill his wife, Kathleen.
S1, EP16 "Financial Motive To Murder"
The State wants to first lay out for the jury the possible financial motive in this case; prosecutors tries to paint the picture of a desperately broke husband who resorted to killing his wife for money; to prove this, they present the couple's finances in the months leading to Kathleen Peterson's death; Michael Peterson's lawyers claim agent Raymond Young's calculations are skewed as the prosecution tries to argue a financial motive in the murder of Kathleen.
S1, EP15 "Living Beyond Their Means"
Michael and Kathleen Peterson had more than $142,000 in credit card debt; he reported no taxable income from a job in the three years before her death; the Defense argue that this is a numbers game with the intention to dupe the jury.
S1, EP14 "Following The Money"
The co-worker who talked to Kathleen Peterson four hours before she died had more to tell the jury in North Carolina; she is the third co-worker to take the stand; the prosecution had an investigator for the state of North Carolina find out how deep a financial hole Michael and Kathleen Peterson were in; Agent Raymond Young reviewed the couple's five checking accounts, examining every check and deposit from 1999, 2000 and 2001.
S1, EP13 "Job And Financial Status"
The State brings in another co-worker of Kathleen Peterson to testify against her husband who was accused of killing her.
S1, EP12 "Killing For Life Insurance"
Jurors learned about Kathleen Peterson's financial situation at the time she died and how much money her husband received afterward; prosecutors believe Michael killed his wife because he was her sole beneficiary.
S1, EP11 "Death Benefits"
Two months after Kathleen died, her husband Michael received more than $380,000 in death benefits from her company; as the beneficiary, he was entitled to things like her deferred compensation, pension death benefits and retirement benefits.
S1, EP10 "Kathleen Peterson's Company Financial Records"
Katherine Kayser is there to testify about Kathleen's finances; Kayser works in the human resources department at Nortel Networks Corporation, the telecom company Kathleen was an executive at before she died.
S1, EP9 "Details From Firefighters Who First Arrived"
Prosecutors want the jury to hear from paramedics and firefighters who were first on the scene at the Peterson House; investigators look at the blood patterns at the scene, along with the wounds on Kathleen's body.