what has happened. he has to live with the weight of it. i set over and i cried. an in-depth look at the story that stunned the world. murder and the blade runner. olympic runner, oscar pistorius, is charged with the murder of his girlfriend. you realize she is not coming back and it hits you. you can t deny that reeva was killed by himself, at his house. what everybody will be watching for is whether he can prove he intended to kill? i did not kill reeva. you want to believe him, you really, really, really want to believe him. hello, and welcome to dateline. reeva and oscar pistorius were a dazzling couple . she was a brilliant model, he was an athlete famous for defying the odds. their futures glowed with promise, then, reeva was gunned down. as police investigated, a chilling question transfixed the world, was her death an accident, or it was south africa s national hero a murderer? here is keith morrison with the rise and fall of oscar pistorius. s
To his chest. Safiro furtado suffered fatal Gunshot Wounds to his head. As for the three men in the backseat, sanchez and a buddy, are unharmed. The third is shot in the arm. Detectives interview all three survivors, scour Security Cameras, but never find the shooter. The case grows cold with winter. Seven months pass. Rivera beach, florida. A man named Alexander Bradley is shot in the head and left for dead in an Industrial Park. Two men who work in that building hear a gunshot and tell police they rush outside and find the body of a bloody man lying in a Fetal Position just about here, according to a Police Report. One of the men asked the victim, who shot you . Bradley wont say. Not after doctors retrieve a Bullet Fragment from his head, not after he loses his right eye. Four more months pass. North attleboro, massachusetts, another man is killed, another family shattered. Who would kill my baby . Only then do the pieces start to come together. If you have moderate to severe Plaque
Police ballistics expert Lt-Col Chris Mangena says the shooter was probably in front of Senzo Meyiwa and the firearm in contact with his chest when the football star was fatally wounded in Vosloorus in 2014.
he didn t know that was there. reporter: the prosecutor reminded the jury that the state s ballistics expert determined it was a family weapon, a 300 blackout rifle that killed maggie. he based that on the fact that shell casings found near maggie s body matched casings scattered all over murdaugh s hunting property. in other words, the gun had been used there many times before. a family blackout killed ma maggie. it was present just a couple months prior to the murders. it is gone now. a family weapon the defendant cannot account for killed maggie. reporter: the prosecutor left the jury with this we couldn t bring you any eyewitnesses because they were murdered. but common sense and human nature can speak on behalf of maggie and paul.
children whose parents are accused of murder and they never believe the parent did it because i don t think that they can accept it emotionally deep in their core. they just can t believe it. it would be hard for me to believe it about my father i would fight to the finish, no way. but, a lot of interesting things happen in court yesterday. for one thing, we learned that when the cops were there, and alex murdaugh was standing right beside his dead wife and son, their bodies literally riddled with bullets. he was looking up a local restaurant on google and looking at a group chat about a woman in a bikini. is he right by their bodies. he just called 911 and his cell phone shows that of course the defense, of course, is claiming he was in shock when he was looking at that bikini woman. and then yesterday, they had a ballistics expert who wasn t a ballistics expert. okay. well you, said that correctly. i think the judge who is great judge by the way.