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Howard Peterson
Howard Peterson
Vital Statistics
Gender Male
Status Alive
Spouse(s) Claudia Peterson (divorce pending)
Children Justin Peterson
Character Information
Appearances Nanny McDead
Portrayed by George Newbern

Howard Peterson is a character portrayed by George Newbern in the ABC crime series Castle.

Howard was the employer of the murder victim, Sara Manning, who was the nanny for his son, Justin. After Sara's friend, Chloe Richardson, explained that Sara would usually only stay late at the Petersons' place on the nights that Claudia would be at work, Castle and Beckett initially thought that Howard was having an affair with Sara and he knew something about her being murdered.

When Castle and Beckett confronted Howard with this information, he admitted that he was having an affair, just not with Sara; he was actually having an affair with a female co-worker of his.

After Castle and Beckett found that Howard's wife, Claudia, had lied about working late the night that Sara was murdered, they then wonder if she was the one who murdered Sara. However, when confronted, Claudia revealed that she knew her husband was having an affair with another woman, as Sara had told her just a few weeks earlier; it's revealed that Howard had been paying Sara extra money to lie to his wife for him, but she was wracked with guilt and eventually confessed what was really going on to Claudia.

It turns out Claudia was at her lawyer's office the night that Sara was murdered, as after she found out that Howard was having an affair, she made secret plans and arrangements to "serve him" with divorce papers without warning.

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