Kathleen Peterson Case

The podcast, Criminal, focuses reviews different criminal cases as well as the different aspects of criminology. The host, Phoebe Judge, a reporter based in Mississippi, has a history in making documentaries. In the first episode of Criminal Judge reviews the unsolved murder case of Kathleen Peterson, a 48 year-old woman, found dead in her home by her husband Michael Peterson back in 2001.Their neighbour, Larry Pollard, a lawyer following the case came up with a theory that puts at new meaning to man vs. beast. When Kathleen was found her husband called 911 saying she fell down the stairs. All odds were against Michael Peterson and he was indicted for the murder of his wife. They said Michael’s motive was that Kathleen found out he was having affairs with men and that his wife had a 1.5 million dollar life insurance policy for herself. Also, in the 80s Michael was tied to a murder and was the last person to see a woman alive before she was killed using blunt-force trauma, just like his wife. After a five month trial Michael Peterson was convicted of his wife's murder. Their neighbour Larry Pollard had an alternate theory to Kathleen’s death. Pollard’s theory was that when Kathleen went back outside for some reason maybe to take out the trash, she was attacked by an owl, then rushing back inside after feeling her head and taking out a clump of hair she ran to the stairs,
It demonstrated good use of voice overs to display key facts pertaining to the case, the podcast was able to give out all information needed for this murder case and was still able to keep the listener interested and wanting to know more. One thing I would suggest for this podcast to improve quality and boost the amount of people who toon in, is to spend more episodes on interesting or puzzling cases, not leaving the listener wondering if they could be more of the case to discover or other theories to