The Staircase is a new HBO drama based on the acclaimed Netflix documentary of the same name.
The HBO Max show was announced earlier this year.
It will be an eight episode true-to-life re-telling of the doc that stunned the world when it hit Netflix in 2020.
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Is The Staircase on HBO a true story?
The series is based on the arrest and subsequent conviction of author Michael Peterson.
He was found guilty of murdering his wife, Kathleen, in 2001. However, in 2017 the charge was reduced to manslaughter and he was released from prison.
Michael claims his wife died after accidentally falling down the stairs which occurred after she mixed alcohol and Valium.
However, an autopsy concluded that she had actually died from multiple blows to the back of her head.
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