after six years of fighting her mother s case, beverly monroe s daughter katie, a lawyer herself, got help from another attorney, steven northup. he filed a lawsuit in federal court. in april of 1999, a federal judge agreed to hear beverly s case. what would the judge decide? beverly waited in prison, and her daughter katie, now a mother herself, had to wait as well. does your son know his grandmother? yes, yes. we take him out every other week to visit. she s his mimi. he has a name for the prison, doesn t he? mimi s house. yeah. ten years after the saga began, the waiting came to an end. a judge ruled beverly monroe had not received a fair trial and ordered her to be released from
your enemy, i can make sure that nobody will ever believe you. i can make you out to be the black spider woman of all time. she was so intimidated, beverly says, she signed the statement, even though she says it wasn t true. she thought at worst her statement could only be read as the confused account of an innocent bystander, but were there others who would interpret this as a confession to murder? coming up, the news of beverly monroe s trial hits the city of richmond. it was sort of right out of peyton place, i guess you would say. when love and death continues. . time to mix it up with new philly cooking creme. it ll make your chicken creamier, dreamier, with lots of flavor. spread the love in four fabulous flavors. spoon in a little new philly cooking creme.
that would put roger himself on trial. the defense hoped to prove that roger wasn t a victim, he was a villain. beverly monroe s daughter came to her rescue. is your mother a murderer? oh, god, no. a recent law school graduate, katie monroe was convinced the case against her mother amounted to little more than speculation and conjecture. i could hardly imagine a weaker case. i can say with complete confidence that the prosecution did not prove that this was a homicide. because they d initially assumed the death was a suicide, police at roger s home hadn t preserved the crime scene. there was no physical evidence, no fingerprints, no fibers, nothing to implicate beverly. besides, says katie, that initial assumption that roger had killed himself was correct. both of the prosecution s firearms experts said that they couldn t rule out the possibility that this was a suicide. the defense theory that roger had killed himself because he
state of virginia was falsely imprisoning beverly monroe. it s the legal equivalent of a hail mary pass because the courts refused to review 90% of such cases. but in a huge victory, in april of 1999, a federal judge agreed to hear beverly s case. steve northup and katie monroe believed beverly had been convicted of murder based on statements that were coerced. they obtained detective riley s investigation notes, which katie described as revealing. he decided up front that it was a homicide, and he decided up front that my mom had done it. and then he viewed everything through that lens. and, she says, once the detective zeroed in on her mother, he resorted to police dirty tricks, and his bullying took its toll. he wore her down. and he caused her to second guess herself and her memory. but prosecutor jack lewis contends beverly wasn t coerced,
heefrz here s what s happening. by some reports have even entered the western part of the capital. in a phone call to state tv, moammar gadhafi vowed to fight to the last drop of blood. a hurricane warning is in fefrekt the u.s. virgin islands as tropical storm irene picks up speed to past puerto rico later today. now back to love and death. beverly monroe and roger de la burde met at a work christmas party in 1979. they were both married, but sparks flew between them. and soon after, an affair started. eventually, they both divorced, and their relationship together went on for more than a decade, but not without its ups and downs. the european man had just turned 60, and according to beverly,