The best thing I can say about the documentary and series so far, is that I really don’t know what to believe! It remains a true mystery and the only person alive who knows the truth is MP himself. I am going to lay out my thinking on a few key points that show while I don’t know what happened I would have to vote not guilty if I was juror

1 Could Kathleen’s injuries be caused by a fall?

Without being an expert or anything I say yes. People die from simple falls everyday and can injure themselves in shocking and unbelievable ways from everyday accidents. If you haven’t already watch the reenactment of the fall in the HBO series. When you see it happen it doesn’t seem ludicrous at all.

2 Did MP have a clear motive to kill Kathleen?

My answer would be no. Sure, MP, CP and TP were in debt (and potentially serious debt) but so is a huge % of the population. If everyone killed their spouse because they were in debt even Netflix couldn’t make enough shows to keep up! Even the gay stuff on its own isn’t a motive to kill, loads of marriages function in exactly the way MP described including his first one to Patty. Everybody who was asked at the time of the incident, including Kathleen’s family stated that they had a great relationship and again there are literally millions of people caught having affairs everyday… most don’t end up murdering the person who catches them!

3 Two deaths at the bottom of staircases is just too big a coincidence!

Maybe…. But Liz’s death was only ruled a homicide following the exhumation. At the time a doctor ruled it as being natural and Liz had complained of severe headaches consistent with the eventual recorded cause of death. Plus Liz’s death was never claimed to be the result of a fall and MP stood to gain nothing from her death. Even if he was having an affair with her Patty wouldn’t have cared, she knew he had affairs with men and women.

4 (final one, and biggest in my case) Why did the police and prosecutors investigate it as a murder?

The scene was obviously pretty gruesome as anyone who watched the doc would know. But as I said earlier people injure themselves in shocking ways all the time and police and EMT’s would have seen these kinds of accidents before. Even if this was an exceptionally unbelievable incident I don’t find it so fantastic as to be thought of as being only possible through murder. If you have watched the HBO series they do a reenactment of the alleged fall and I don’t find it hard to believe that something like that could’ve happened.

For me the takeaway from the doc was that in a case like this it’s the states story versus the defendant and the state used its authority to manipulate the evidence to suit their case in a way that would be impossible for a defendant to do. For example the medical examiner DR put the cause of death as blunt force trauma, when in actual fact (and by her original assessment) the cause of death was blood loss. DD then designed his “experiments” to recreate the version of the story the prosecution wanted without actually testing the evidence to see what happened. Everything else in the case was circumstantial.

As I said at the beginning, only MP knows for sure what happened that night. Although the prosecution (in my view) couldn’t produce a clear motive he may have had one and he may well have killed Kathleen. But to say he is guilty with no reasonable doubt is by far the craziest thing that happens in this story