Freda Black, prosecutor in Michael Peterson trial & featured in Netflix’s ‘The Staircase’, is dead at 57
Famous Murder Cases
Freda Black, the former assistant district attorney who prosecuted Michael Peterson in his 2003 murder trial, was reportedly found dead in her North Carolina home. She was 57. Durham Police spokesperson Wil Glenn told USA Today that Black’s body was sent to the medical examiner for an autopsy but her death “does not appear suspicious …