was a valid defense for her. but even the prosecutor admits the detective sounds like a bully. i ve read that interview. sure. and if that doesn t sound like leading the witness absolutely. i could not i don t know what does. i could not agree with you any more. the prosecutor says the reason detective riley sounds so heavy handed is because only the end of the conversation was recorded. the detective says he forgot to turn on the tape machine until 80 minutes into the conversation. once he started recording and asked beverly to repeat her story, prosecutor lewis says her answers became vague. plus then on the tape is dave riley doing almost all the talking, and it does come across that he s putting words in her mouth. there s no question about that. it was an ambush. it was wrong. when there was evidence that contradicted him, every step of the way, it just got concealed or covered up.
of 1992, krystyna was four months pregnant with roger s baby. when did you learn that krystyna was actually pregnant? that was the sunday right before roger s death, maybe three days. prosecutor lewis told the jury this was motive with a capital m. beverly, the 54-year-old girlfriend, desperately afraid that this dramatic development would end her life with roger. indeed, prosecutors showed the jury an unsigned contract detailing how roger would support krystyna and the baby and possibly even live with them. there s a baby now. this is real. we ve got to deal with this. it s not going to go away. now it was time for the defense, and beverly s attorneys had a bold, if risky, strategy that would put roger himself on trial. the defense hoped to prove that roger wasn t a victim, he was a villain.
me. this instantly hit me that they set this up or that this was even meaningful. they believed that you had murdered roger. i didn t see how they could believe it. prosecutor jack lewis was sure of it. this is not suicide. this is murder. on june 9th, 1992, beverly monroe was indicted for the first degree murder of roger burde, and the whispers in richmond got louder. there was almost as much shock and disbelief about beverly as there was about the idea that roger had killed himself. reporter arthur hodges covered beverly monroe s trial, the trial of the century in rural powhatan county, virginia. an amazing small town southern spectacle that you don t get much anymore. it was sort of right out of peyton place, i guess you d say. prosecutor lewis first challenged the suicide theory by calling witnesses who testified roger was not suicidal. he was negotiating a real estate deal, and with his art book
but even the prosecutor admits the detective sounds like a bully. i ve read that interview. sure. and if that doesn t sound like leading the witness absolutely. i could not i don t know what does. i could not agree with you any more. the prosecutor says the reason detective riley sounds so heavy handed is because only the end of the conversation was recorded. the detective says he forgot to turn on the tape machine until 80 minutes into the conversation. once he started recording and asked beverly to repeat her story, prosecutor lewis says her answers became vague. plus then on the tape is dave riley doing almost all the talking, and it does come across that he s putting words in her mouth. there s no question about that. it was an ambush. it was wrong. when there was evidence that contradicted him, every step of the way, it just got concealed or covered up. including information about a chevy blazer seen speeding away
of 1992, krystyna was four months pregnant with roger s baby. when did you learn that krystyna was actually pregnant? that was the sunday right before roger s death, maybe three days. prosecutor lewis told the jury this was motive with a capital m. beverly, the 54-year-old girlfriend, desperately afraid that this dramatic development would end her life with roger. indeed, prosecutors showed the jury an unsigned contract detailing how roger would support krystyna and the baby and possibly even live with them. there s a baby now. this is real. we ve got to deal with this. it s not going to go away. now it was time for the defense, and beverly s attorneys had a bold, if risky, strategy that would put roger himself on trial. the defense hoped to prove that