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S3 Ep108: Kathleen Peterson: The Other Man (Part 4)

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Michael Peterson's Death and the Death of Elizabeth Ratliff

The prosecution had no evidence that Kathleen was or wasn't aware of her husband's sexuality even though her sisters vehemently claimed. I do think that this whole thing really influenced the jury in this case as did the next bombshell which was the death of Elizabeth Ratliff the biological mother of Michael's two adopted daughters Martha and Margaret so we touched on this briefly in in part one but when Michael was living in Frankfurt Germany with his first wife Patty he and Patty had become friends with Elizabeth and George Ratliff who both later died.

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