but matt birkbeck believes bob's claims about the killing were attempts after the fact to sanitize what the evidence suggests was a brutal murder. >> it makes no sense. and if you look at the autopsy report it shows that morris had been beaten severely in the upper torso, and he even perhaps suffered a heart attack. so obviously something else was going on. >> reporter: after his arrest bob called his friends the altmans and tried to explain what happened. >> he said he went to a fugue state. he was an out of body experience. i -- it's hard to understand. >> reporter: charged with murder, bob durst also called his new wife, debrah charatan, who helped arrange $300,000 in cash for bail which he promptly skipped, got a car, and traveled the country sometimes using morris black's i.d. it was weeks later when they finally caught him, shoplifting in bethlehem, pennsylvania.