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Michael "Mike" Peterson graduated from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in political science. He attended classes at the law school of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Duke he was the president of Sigma Nu fraternity and the editor of The Chronicle. In 1965, Peterson married Patricia Sue Peterson. They had two children, Clayton and Todd. In 1968, he voluntarily enlisted in the Marines but was discharged four years later when a car accident left him with a permanent disability. Michael and Patricia lived in Germany for some time, where they befriended Elizabeth and George Ratliff and their two children, Margaret and Martha. After George's death in Grenada, the Peterson and Ratliff families became very close. When Elizabeth Ratliff died in 1985, her two children became Michael's wards. Michael and Patricia divorced in 1987, Clayton and Todd went to live with their mother, and Margaret and Martha stayed with Michael. In 1989, Michael moved in with Kathleen Atwater, a successful Nortel business executive and socialite. They married in 1997. Kathleen's daughter, Caitlin, joined the extended Peterson family.
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Miael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943 near Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. to Eugen Iver Peterson and Eleanor Bartolino) is a fiction writer and politician. In 2003, he was convicted of the murder of his wife, Kathleen Petersonch.
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