Michael Peterson is also pretty pissed about HBO's The Staircase
Peterson, played by Colin Firth in the series, is angry both at showrunner Antonio Campos, and original Staircase documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

It’s starting to sound like nobody involved in the events depicted in HBO’s new fictionalized crime series The Staircase is especially happy about how the series has turned out. Specifically, Michael Peterson—whose trial for the murder of his wife Kathleen rests at both the heart of the HBO show, and the docuseries of the same name from which it takes inspiration—has issued several blunt statements about the show, including his anger at documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade for “pimping out” his life story to showrunner Antonio Campos.
“We feel that Jean pimped us out—sold OUR story to Campos for money,” Peterson—who was convicted of Kathleen’s murder in 2003, and released from prison after taking an Alford plea that dropped the charges against him down to manslaughter in 2017—told Variety via emails this week. “What word other than pimped describes what he did?”