have to save the planet. and in chicago protesters gathered for a rally to address police violence and to call for mayor rahm emanual to step down. the city has seen a string of protests since the release of a police dash cam video showing teen laquan mcdonald being shot 16 times by a police officer. now back to our programming. beverly monroe and roger de la burde met at a work christmas party in 1979. they were both married, but sparks flew between them. and soon after, an affair started. eventually, they both divorced, and their relationship together went on for more than a decade, but not without its ups and downs. the european man had just turned 60, and according to beverly, was an emotional wreck. he wanted a legacy, a son to look up to him and to carry on his name.
northup says that, if indeed the state was right and roger had been murdered, there was ample evidence that others had reason to kill him. and the evidence added up to reasonable doubt. so you believe the prosecution simply did not prove its case? oh, i definitely believe that. one of the things that you learn if you spend any significant time with beverly, is it s really almost inconceivable she could do something like this. she s just not that kind of person. coming up, would the judge agree that beverly was innocent? beverly s daughters fight for their mother. the checks and balances that people expect or that should be in the system, they re not there.
2000, when we first spoke to him about beverly s case. i do have sympathy for beverly monroe. there are a lot of people that really thought she deserved a medal for having killed him. the state of virginia appealed the federal court s ruling and lost. sending the case back to the local prosecutor to decide if beverly monroe would face another murder trial. you know, clearing my name is a huge part of this. a year after the appeal, the prosecutor in powhatan county announced he would not retry beverly monroe for the murder of roger burde. this is a case without a crime. i think the only crime is what s been done to my family. and to roger. the prosecutor said he did not pursue a retrial largely because, after 11 years of litigation, the victim s family wanted to move on. he also noted that beverly
what investigator riley did was cause her to think the truth as she knew it was not the truth. this was a woman who was not in her right mind. but beverly s attorneys told the jury her only crime had been to love a complicated man. did you kill roger burde? of course not. this isn t a case in which you were terribly jealous about another woman who was going to have his child and push you out? that motive wasn t true. there wasn t anything to lose emotionally that i hadn t already lost with roger, and that was trust. and you weren t so angry at him for violating that trust that you killed him. sara, you know, at trial we proved, we proved that i couldn t have been there. beverly produced a receipt stamped 10:40 p.m. but the state medical examiner testified that roger could have been killed as late as 3:00 a.m. at the end of the seven-day
in 2006, katie became the director of the rocky mountain innocence center in salt lake city. she joined the innocence project in new york city in 2012. so far, the organization has these things are far too common. the checks and balances that people expect or that should be in the system within the police department, within the prosecutor s offices, they re not there. the years lost in prison can never be replaced. beverly and her children are still trying to piece their lives back together. we are normal people. we loved roger. but we ve done nothing wrong, and we ve tried very hard to keep ourselves together during all of this. since beverly s release, she s enjoying what she missed out on the most. my grandson. just i missed nearly four years of his life. i missed his birth.