Michael Peterson Gives His Testimony | The Staircase | HBO Max — Transcript
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- 0:00is there something else she wanted to
- 0:02say
- 0:06i always felt
- 0:08there was something you were holding
- 0:10back during the first trial
- 0:12i don't know what
- 0:14but there was something
- 0:20i was
- 0:20there is
- 0:25i lied about kathleen
- 0:29she never knew
- 0:33i never told her about that side of me
- 0:36you know in the beginning when people
- 0:38ask you know
- 0:39did she know about the men i
- 0:42i told them of course she did she knew
- 0:44me
- 0:47and i hope that would be enough
- 0:49then people ask again and again so
- 0:56but no no we never talked about
- 0:59it
- 1:03i could never make the leap to say to
- 1:05her
- 1:06this is who i
- 1:10am to make that leap is very difficult
- 1:15i didn't make the leap with kathleen
- 1:20i'm sure i felt guilty
- 1:25but when you get away with something and
- 1:26you keep getting away with it
- 1:28it becomes oh
- 1:30it's all right you see
- 1:34i wish i could have told her
- 1:37i wonder what she would have said
- 1:41she'd have made it right
- 1:46did you kill a cafe
- 1:54kathleen's death
- 1:56was an accident
- 2:10you
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