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Much anything she wanted to do, because i don t really think he had a job. and i think they d go on these little trips to different places. i think that he was kind of a trophy to her. being so much younger, you know, here she is in her early 40s. oh, wow, look, i m with somebody that s in their 20s. i just said, proceed with caution, you know. stephen knew she was married, of course, knew the marriage was on again, off again. he was wrong for her, and she seemed to know it. 17 years younger, no career, it couldn t last. she really did love her husband and wanted to reconcile that and move forward with their relationship. and yet as the months went by, eva and stephen carried on. she was open to me and my sister and just a few people about her relationship with stephen. but still hiding him. still keeping the extent of their relationship just between ....
Them. mostly because i don t think she was proud of it. but with stephen it was something else. i think he was kind of like a drug to her, in a way, like nothing that she had ever had before. she was, i think, extremely conflicted with what to do, how to break this off. and then that friday in september. she phoned me on friday. eva had promised to be with april for the birth of her baby, now just days away. and she said, so if sunday looks good for you, i d like to come out. and i said that would be great, you know, let me know what time and i ll pick you up. already, eva s husband had invited her to catalina island when he returned from a flight the following week. an effort to reconcile. she accepted. and then eva placed another call, must have, though it was secret, to stephen. how about catalina right now, she asked him, before the trip she was supposed to take with her husband. and then sunday night kind of rolled around and i never heard ....
Oh, it s from stephen. you know, we were playing rough or, you know, wrestling around, some type of sexual thing. eva, conflicted, perhaps confused, ignored the advice of her friends and even as the story goes, a mystical warning. she had gone to a psychic. she didn t tell the woman anything about her life and she said, you re in a relationship with a younger man. that s not your husband. eva was like, yeah, that s really weird, you know. and the psychic said, if you don t break it off, he will kill you. i think that she knew she had gotten in a little bit too deep. i think we ve all gotten in situations that we really don t know how to get out of. i think that s where she was in her life. they tried to get her to leave him alone, get away from him. but she d always find her way back. which she had done on that last sex and blood and drug and blood-soaked night in catalina. why, when she made the plans to ....
so you see the parallels, the very same behavior, pounding on the door, breaking into the room, wielding a pocketknife and then threatening to gut her. it s the very same thing he did in this case. how do you say that he was sleepwalking when on a prior occasion he had the dress rehearsal? at trial, reitz never denied breaking into eva s apartment with the knife. nor did he deny that he was responsible for her bruises. the ones eva s family noticed. instead, reitz said in their passion, sometimes he grabbed her too firmly. she even went to a doctor, said reitz, to ask why she bruised so easily. as for the night she was killed, reitz s attorney theodore veganes said stephen couldn t have known what he was doing, couldn t have been that angry. there is nothing that occurred that makes sense. the act itself is bizarre. the act itself is an act of somebody losing it. and then the heart of the defense. the medical expert from stanford university explained how people can and someti ....
Understood how capable he was of hurting her. i think that she was in denial. and in hindsight, one alleged incident might have been a warning. she had told me a time where she woke up in the middle of the night and he was on top of her choking her. bizarre, bizarre behavior. could that have been another sleepwalking episode, another unintended attack? perhaps even a precursor to what happened here in catalina? detectives kept digging and from eva s friends and family, they heard allegations about a dark side of stephen s personality. he had a temper. talking to family members of eva, friends of his, he had a temper. he had a history of being violent with her. she d come home with her sister and her mother, they d see bruises all over her body. they knew that stephen was being he was very violent at times. they were obviously bite marks on her legs or whatever. i would ask her, what is that? ....