Freda Black, a prosecutor featured on Netflix's 'The Staircase', found dead in her home

Wil Glenn, a spokesperson for the Durham police, said that the 57-year-old prosecutor's death did not appear to be suspicious

Freda Black, one of the prosecutors from the famous 2001 North Carolina murder case involving novelist Michael Peterson, passed away in her home over the past weekend. Black had been featured in the Netflix documentary series 'The Staircase', that profiled the case. She was found dead on July 29 morning in her home in North Carolina. Wil Glenn, a spokesperson for the Durham police, said that the 57-year-old prosecutor's death did not appear to be suspicious and that the body was sent to the medical examiner for further investigation.

Black was the one who gave closing arguments in the 2003 trial that ended Peterson being convicted of murdering his wife, Kathleen.

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