# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-peterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:00:00.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-peterson"
name: "Michael Peterson"
slug: "michael-peterson"
description: "Michael Iver Peterson is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. In 2011, after eight years in prison, Peterson was released from prison after being granted a new trial. In a review of an appeal, the judge had ruled that a critical prosecution witness in the first trial gave misleading testimony. Peterson was out on bail and under house arrest while awaiting a new trial."
tagline: "American novelist convicted of manslaughter"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Seal_of_North_Carolina.svg/330px-Seal_of_North_Carolina.svg.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-10-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.69415333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2023399/"
    handle:    "nm2023399"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Дело Майкла Питерсона"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "مايكل بيترسون (روائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "مايكل بيترسون (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Iver_Peterson"
    title: "Michael Iver Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%97_%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B7_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%9C%CE%AC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BB_%CE%A0%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD"
    title: "Η δίκη του Μάικλ Πίτερσον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peterson_trial"
    title: "Michael Peterson trial"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peterson_(novelista)"
    title: "Michael Peterson (novelista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peterson"
    title: "Michael Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peterson"
    title: "Michael Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1927978"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2027469"
    title: "Michael Peterson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump