she decides to buy a gun and she kills him. she shoots him 6 times with a .38 special. >> she was charged with murder. her attorney, leonard ambrose, realized just how difficult a defense case he had. >> after the shooting, she went out with a bag filled with $18,000 in cash and was soliciting individuals to help her with a chainsaw, cut up the body and bury it. >> oh, you're kidding. >> which started the whole thing going. >> part of ambrose's defense consisted of having marjorie committed three times while she awaited trial. to illustrate just how truly ill she was, ambrose pointed to what authorities found in her house after her 1984 arrest. marjorie was a hoarder in the extreme. >> she had 400 pounds of cheese in the attic. she had hundreds of -- dozens of eggs in the freezers. i mean, who would put 400 pounds of cheese in your attic in july? she just was really, really disturbed, and she was never gonna get better. >> but the courts ultimately declared her competent to stand trial. ambrose produced witnesses who testified that the boyfriend had physically abused marjorie in public. the lawyer made his case so compelling that the jury found her not guilty. >> i thank god, and i thank the