what is happening, and he has to leave with the weight of it. she wasn t breathing. and in-depth look at the story that stunned the world. murder and the blade runner. olympic runner story is charged with the murder of his girlfriend. she s not coming back he denied it. she was killed by himself at his house. what everybody will be watching for is whether intending to tend to kill her. i did not fire at revile. we want to believe him. you really really want to believe him. hello, and welcome to dateline. we have the story of oscar pistorino s. she was a brilliant model. he was an athlete famous for defying the odds. their futures gloat with promise. then, was gunned down. as police investigated, a chilling question transfixed the world. was her death an accident, or was south africa s national hero a murderer? it s keith morrison with the rise and fall of oscar pistorius . such a time it was, like a different world. this was london, the year was 201
races, and their parties up there in clark house. here, oscar met the kind of people he might never have met had he not been oscar pistorius. here he met the people who pulled the thread from the carefully woven fabric of his life. and in particular, his friend vanderbilt, oscar originally accused clinton of having an affair with samantha taylor during the olympics. after oscar first broke up with samantha. oscar walked up to him just going off him and my girlfriend. i m running for my country. this is south african soccer start mark bachelor. he denied clinton and invading samantha taylor and he was so upset by oscar s outburst. he has bachelor to speak to him. so he was still shaking up. he asked me but, said bachelor, when he
off him and my girlfriend. i m running for my country. this is south african soccer start mark bachelor. he denied clinton and invading samantha taylor and he was so upset by oscar s outburst. he has bachelor to speak to him. so he was still shaking up. he asked me but bachelor, when he phoned oscar, who [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] the way had a checkered past himself. and so he said he knew the signs of a man losing his ballots. hanging out with the wrong people. oscar would sit in there and i just become too quickly for him. there was a final break out with samantha. friend said she complained
together for years. during which reeva became determined to do something about the kind of domestic violence should experience the hands of that first boyfriend. and one, encouraged her. showed her outlook, her down home sensibilities. he was a normal, run-of-the-mill guy. in one of twists, mark bachelor new reeva back then two when she was dating. she was in love so we are talking about when they were gonna have the wedding. but before then, reeva wanted to live out of fantasy. she had modeled as a teenager. so to give it another try before going on to law, school she was looking for was gonna take her license. her career took off. she appeared in ads, to the commercials, videos, like this one from the men s magazine as a gem. did she get a big head? no. never. but by july of 2012, she
except that wasn t the end of the story. in south africa, the rules are little different. prosecutors can appeal verdicts, which they did. and after the trial, after oscar was sent home, a higher court upgraded his conviction. the accused conviction from court one, and replaced with the following, guilty of murder. the court increased oscar sentenced to 2 to 13 years, and so he went back to prison. he will be eligible for parole in 2023. there is a postscript of this story. and it has to do with mark bachelor, that one time soccer legend. what is it like to have 100,000 people, and they re all cheering your name? sometimes it can be pretty miserable. on july 14th, 2019. as he sat in his car in front of the home where we had met him. two gunmen, unknown, fired into