Up to other people wish to have solutions, on occasion there are none.
It is laborious to simply accept that, just like Jon Benet Ramsey‘s homicide or the Zodiac Killer’s identification, Kathleen Peterson‘s dying might stay a thriller. Positive, other people could make assumptions about what took place at the night time of Dec. 9, 2001, however no person will in reality understand how it’s that Kathleen, performed by means of Toni Collette in The Staircase, died that night time.
And whilst it is just human to take a position about whether or not Kathleen’s husband Michael Peterson, performed by means of Colin Firth, killed her (he entered an Alford plea in 2017, during which he maintained his innocence whilst acknowledging there is sufficient proof to convict him of manslaughter), the obsession with the case additionally affects the ones with ties to the sufferer. As Odessa Younger (who performs Martha Ratliff, Kathleen’s followed stepdaughter) instructed E! Information, “Everyone likes to play armchair detective however all of us omit how a lot grief warps the whole lot.”
It is this empathy that knowledgeable Younger’s portrayal of Martha, who is without doubt one of the few characters to query Michael’s innocence.
