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
act, and he gets to the cross-examination, he says that i did not fire the gun intentionally, and that was an accident, and so not only shoot and kill reeva, the gun going off is an accident in and of itself, and those are two completely different things that he is alleging. one of the reports covering the trial described him as sounding and looking and we don t see him, but the folks there do looking like a broken man. again, no jury, and this is a case to be decided by the judge who has been stone-faced throughout the trial. and his demeanor and the exhaustion if he does indeed look like a broken man and does that play into it when looking at a judge? i have never e seen a defendant as emotional as oscar pistorius has been throughout this trial. i mean, he breaks down. they take breaks often. he has vomited twice. they have to keep a bucket near him in the courtroom, but at the end of the day, that really may not matter? and some of the emotion and the
him with premeditated murder and they re going to have to show that he had a calm reflection beforehand, that he in fact intended to kill his girlfriend, to kill reeva and i don t think they ll be able to do that. sean: well, it s going to be interesting. it s getting a lot of play. thank you both for being with us. thank you. sean: coming up next it s a video that will leave you angry and heart broken, a three-year-old girl in a wheelchair on the way to disney world detained by the tsa. the disturbing incident was caught on tape. we ll explain next. it s a pho. it s a hawk with night vision goggles. it s marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beauty meets brains. it s big ideas with smaller footprints. and knowing there s always more in the world to see.
was premeditated and charging him with premeditated murder and they re going to have to show that he had a calm reflection beforehand, that he in fact intended to kill his girlfriend, to kill reeva and i don t think they ll be able to do that. sean: well, it s going to be interesting. it s getting a lot of play. thank you both for being with us. thank you. sean: coming up next it s a video that will leave you angry and heart broken, a three-year-old girl in a wheelchair on the way to disney world detained by the tsa. the disturbing incident was caught on tape. we ll explain next.