with kathleen, raised them as his own. patty was saying that our birth mother was like a sister to her. she was her closest friend in the whole world. and it was said in our mother s will that we would go to mike and patty when they passed away. and, so, dad saw it as his responsibility and took us in. and stay we stayed with him for our whole lives. you didn t think that s strange, the petersons? who are these people? well actually, you know, i can understand how that could happen. this was her world now. liz must love these people and trusted them to the nth degree. elizabeth ratliff s body was flown to texas for burial. at the funeral, margaret was desperate to hear further details from michael peterson about her sister s passing. but to her surprise michael was very aloof and very strange. did he speak? no, he didn t really say a lot at all. he never talked about the
they were living above their means. i mean, you know, if he wasn t writing a book or had any royalties coming in, he had no income. and according to kathleen s sister, michael s dabble in local politics had brought even more stress to the marriage. when he ran for mayor, he d been called out publicly in a lie, a whopper of one. the war action novelist claimed to have been awarded a purple heart, only he hadn t. he got hurt, not by taking hills in vietnam, but in a car accident in japan. when it became public about his lies, it did cause kathleen these friendships. she had to decide whether to stand by michael or keep these friendships, and these friendships were lost. so if the true state of the petersons marriage was murky, investigators thought the story told in blood was becoming clear. not only was there more of it in the stairwell than detectives would expect to see with a fall, but according to emts, much of it was dry when they arrived. so you have to wonder when
there in his office he wrote his war stories and churned out sharp-elbowed columns on city politics for the local paper. stick in the eye stuff. he d even been a losing candidate for mayor of durham. kathleen, meanwhile, was a top business exec at nortel, the telecommunications company. she d received a master s degree in engineering from duke university. she was a smart, smart woman. but most of all, she was funny and sexual but had this marvelous sense of life and vitality just and you were in the swirl of the local society. right? yeah. charity balls and parties and nice dinners. yeah. and she did all of this. she good, smart friends at your table? absolutely. she would invite people over. she cooked meals. and she d do the desserts. she did it all. so michael was all too happy to say yes when after years of living together, kathleen suggested the couple make it official. so we got married.
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i d never had a male man-on-man, male thought in my life. throughout his marriage to kathleen, michael admits he did seek male companionship from time to time. but says it by no means affected his feelings for his wife. did i want a boyfriend? no. um did i want to spend the night with one? did i wanna cuddle? did i wanna have a candlelit diner? no. never. never. never. for me, it was strictly sex. had nothing to do with love or a relationship. moreover, michael says his interest in men wasn t exactly hush-hush in the family. perhaps kathleen had a hunch. this is not a family secret? no. no. my sons no. it s not. it s not. was it known to kathleen, michael? i think it was one of these things that was not discussed but known. it was don t ask, don t tell? yeah. exactly. and of course, when i was growing up, there wasn t any don t ask, don t tell.