did it. 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.
whether or not he sounded believable with the story that he was telling. will the defendant please rise. reporter: the altmans said bob was convinced, 99.9 percent certain that he d be convicted. we the jury find the defendant robert durst not guilty. reporter: the jury took five days to save him from 25 years to life in prison. though he later served a little time in federal prison for skipping bail and dismembering morris black. but by 2005 he was a free man again. now the only person who could catch bob durst was bob durst. coming up, caught off camera and seemingly offguard on the jinx. did robert durst confess? why did he give that interview? thought he d be able to show he s not a horrible person.
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believable with the story that he was telling. will the defendant please rise. reporter: the altmans said bob was convinced, 99.9 percent certain that he d be convicted. we the jury find the defendant robert durst not guilty. reporter: the jury took five days to save him from 25 years to life in prison. though he later served a little time in federal prison for skipping bail and dismembering morris black. but by 2005 he was a free man again. now the only person who could catch bob durst was bob durst. coming up, caught off camera and seemingly offguard on the jinx. did robert durst confess? killed them all, of course. why did he give that interview? thought he d be able to show he s not a horrible person.
it was weeks later when they finally caught him, shoplifting in bethlehem, pennsylvania. while more than $38,000 in cash was in his car. the altmans visited him in jail. you know, i asked him how he was doin . and he said, you know, not great. he talked about how he pretty much was gonna do maybe suicide by cop. reporter: but bob of course didn t pull that particular trigger and was sent back to texas for trial, where his houston attorney dick deguerin devised the defense that beat the murder charge. it was a simple case of a struggle over a gun, and the gun went off. if it truly was self-defense, then what happened after the killing doesn t change that. reporter: bob wasn t so confididn t he d get off. in fact he asked his friends the altmans to help him learn more about what life behind bars