I'm an American ex-pat living in Sweden for the last five years on a long contract and happened to see a documentary on Michael Peterson, just last week. It was a moving and important documentary because it managed to present what appears to be a fairly unbiased view of the situation and certainly calls into question any possible clear answers for the deaths of his wives. Having lived in Tennessee, Texas, and Chicago--as well as Europe--my sense of the situation for Michael was that a combination of a northern attorney and Michael's sexual irregularities substantially biased the jury. But from what was shown, at least in the documentary, was that there was nothing to suggest any foul play whatsover.

With today's electronics and surveillance equipment, one would think that talented people like Mr. Peterson could be released into some form of protective custody, but allowed to enjoy his daughters and to continue producing his wild fiction. Death should never be the answer when a case is not 100% provable.