Fascinating and compulsive viewing, I couldn’t stop watching it. Working within the UK justice system I find the way things are done in the states very interesting. The show was clearly heavily biased toward Mr Peterson and his legal team. And something didn’t sit right with me regarding the way he spoke to the camera, with his strange rambling and repetitive monologues. At first I thought he just wanted to give his side of things, tell his story, by the end I was in no doubt he was a serious narcissist.
So I immediately did some digging and read a few very interesting articles about the case. Assuming they are true, I was genuinely shocked that so many things were left out of the documentary, such as;
* He was in a relationship with the shows director.
* He was essentially bankrupt, and about to lose his home.
* He stood to become rich from her life insurance.
* Even though that one blood spatter expert turned out corrupt/incompetent, a number of other experts still agreed with the blood spatter being indicative of an assault. Yet they were left out, just a few the defence pulled in (neither of which could explain the blood on the high ceiling)
* The victim had clear strangulation marks and injuries to her neck. This was a big feature of the original court case, yet never got mentioned in the show. To me one of the strangest omissions.
* Mr Peterson has since been proven to have bought three blow pokes in between the start of the case and the one mysteriously appearing in the garage. He also admitted this in an interview, but said they were for the propose of testing theories out. Again, never mentioned.
* Tests on the family computer suggested the victim had just found his emails/photos of men prior to her accident.
* His perfect family not as it seems, with the son going to prison. And some key family members not being featured in the show, but played just as big a part in the case.
* Plus loads of other things. It was also very odd how little they featured the victim, we did not even get told what job she did (which was a very high ranking role at Nortel, and was about to lose her job).
I’m massively shocked by how much the programme makers left out.