she left the police station exhausted and distraught. had she been so traumatized by this second suicide that she couldn t even remember roger dying before her very eyes? she says she was haunted by her interview with detective riley. this man nearly made me think i was losing my mind. i was that confused. beverly saw a counselor but says, despite what she told riley, ultimately she could not remember witnessing the suicide. perhaps her memory of seeing the gun was just a nightmare that wouldn t go away. and detective riley wouldn t disappear either. three months later he asked to meet her at a park, and this time he wasn t so friendly. immediately he started this attack and this accusation, and it was the first time beverly says riley told her medical and firearms tests showed roger couldn t have shot
seeing something shiny in his hand. and i said, what was that? was that the gun? and she said, yes, the gun. dave riley felt that he could not get her to just come right out and say, yeah, i was there. i killed him. that the best that he could do would be to get her to admit that she was there. it doesn t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the person who s there when he s murdered is the person who murdered him. coming up, prosecutors lay out a shocking motive. when did you realize that roger was having an affair? when love and death continues. did you know that good nutrition is
it seems the creative, talented roger de la burde had been tortured. he had been shot in the head, and the gun was in his hand. coming up, not everyone believed roger s death was a suicide. a lot of people right after the obituary ran in the paper, said no way, i don t buy it. he did not kill himself. but if roger didn t kill himself, who did? when love and death continues. age agnostic. olay is a purveyor of ageless. only the best 1% of ingredients make it into our products. for transformed skin without expensive brands or procedures. it s the ultimate beauty victory. nobody has any idea how old you are. with olay, you age less. so you can be ageless.
but then roger was shot in the head. at first, it was thought to be suicide, but then virginia police questioned beverly. they said she didn t pass a lie detector test, and she also signed a written statement saying she was present when roger was killed. in 1992 beverly went on trial for the murder of her longtime lover. there was no dna evidence, no eyewitness testimony, and no fingerprints on the gun. but the prosecution zeroed in on just one woman. they argued that beverly had become unhinged because she d been betrayed. when did you realize that roger was having an affair with krystyna? that would have been new year s of that first year after we met them. two years before roger s death, beverly discovered her lover was involved with a 38-year-old married woman, krystyna drewnowska, who said beverly had been very jealous.
nearly finished, he d called his publisher on the night he died to confirm a meeting for the next day. roger said, it s a new day. i am solving my problems. the weight of the world is off of my shoulders. how do you translate that? i do not translate that as somebody that s getting ready to go in the other room and lay down on the sofa and shoot themselves in the head. next, lewis told the jury the position of roger s body was suspicious. he was found lying on his right side facing the back of the sofa. awkward for a man trying to kill himself, but a position that made perfect sense if he had been taking a nap and was murdered while he slept. i have a gun here that s a .38 smith and wesson. lewis demonstrated the prosecution s theory with a similar unloaded gun. he is like this with his head cupped in his hands, and he takes the gun between his ring finger and his little finger and pulls the trigger.