The two Ratliff Daughters - Spoilers

I noticed the strong resemblance between the older daughter, Margaret, Mike Peterson and his sons as well. I thought that throughout viewing, esp everytime I saw Margaret sitting next to the son at the trial. I thought many times that there was no way they weren't blood related and that that was partly why Mike Peterson adopted the girls along with receiving trust money from the Ratliff estate.

There is something definitely up with the daughters. They didn't seem all there to me.

Remember how similar Patricia (Mike's first wife and mother of the two boys) looked to Elizabeth? In photos, a longterm good friend of both women had trouble differentiating which woman was which (I believe this occured in the episode where the lawyers go to Germany). If there is a noticeable similarity between the Peterson boys and the Ratcliff daughters, arguably the similiarity comes from their respective mothers, who have been established as looking strikingly alike.

I don't remember/didn't notice Mr. Ratcliff's date of death, but the youngest daughter Martha was 18 in December 2001 (when Kathleen died). That would make her born some point in 1983. I also recall her saying she was around 6months old when her father died (in an early episode where she is being asked questions by one of the defense lawyers). Are you perhaps mistaken that it was stated Martha was 1yr old when her mother died?

It seems to me your reason for doubting the girls' parentage is because they may look slightly alike to the Peterson boys and the dates don't work. However Elizabeth Ratcliff and Patricia Peterson share similar likeness. Also Martha was born in 1983 which 100% works with the dates. So these poor girls who have been through hell probably don't deserve their parentage coming under unnecessary and unsubstantiated fire.

I am 100% with you. I thought Margaret looked amazingly similar to him and his biological sons. In the end scene I was looking at the four children and it was striking how much they looked alike. They did mention that their bio-Mom and Patti looked a lot alike but still, It was uncanny. Beyond that, I don't understand how he ended up with the children when they had a Grandmother, an Aunt and he had a wife besides.

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I saw absolutely no resemblance to Mike. What I saw when she was shown talking to Ron and the lawyer at the age of thirty was, "My God, she looks EXACTLY like her mother!"

As to her possibly resembling Mike and his sons? That really doesn't mean anything.

I knew a family when I was a kid who adopted a girl and later had a son of their own. They had many family photographs on the wall of the girl as she aged. In one particular family photograph, she looked to be the spitting image of her ADOPTIVE mother. You could not tell them apart at all.

So, Margaret possibly looking like Mike doesn't mean he's her biological father.


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Those girls have some sort of disorder just not sure what it is. Also there was a throwaway line about them being left alone in a house when aged 1 and 2. Summat freaky about all this.

It's since been revealed that a DNA test was conducted and he's not either of the girls biological father.

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