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Go to that very same place the following week to reconcile with her husband. >> i think eva was breaking it off and telling him that this was their last time together. he couldnt handle it. if he couldnt have her, no one could. and that probably started a fight and ended up -- he ended up killing her. >> but stephen reitz, who is now facing a first degree murder charge, never once wavered from the story he told that morning in the catalina fire station. he was not conscious. he did not want to k...

But judging from the violent crime scene and witnessing evas autopsy, frisco was convinced this had to be calculated, conscious. >> when people are sleep walking, its not easy to form all of these various steps in your mind. its not as if he had thrashed about in the room and knocked over the furniture and woke up. everything he did was directed specifically at eva to ultimately murder her. >> ultimately d.a. frisco wouldnt get a chance to make that case to a jury. he was transferred to another ...

Prying open the deepest secrets, especially under the gaze of two experienced detectives. the affair, it soon became apparent, was as tumultuous as it was passionate. >> my uncle called and said your aunt evas dead. i said, steve killed her, didnt he? he didnt know at that point really details or anything, but i knew. knowing eva and steves relationship, knowing the violence, it was obviously shocking but not surprising. >> violence? what violence? stephen reitz told detectives that he and eva h...

>> 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. its 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 evas apartment with the knife. nor did he deny that he was responsible for her bruises. the ones evas family noticed. instead, reitz said in their passion, so...

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 evas friends and family, they heard allegat...

>> that was us. that was definitely us, yes. april bozarth was evas friend and flying companion back at the airline, a kind of magic time for both of them. >> everywhere we went, people would just be drawn to her. and she just had a presence about her that was just fun-loving, you know, very welcoming. she would give you the shirt off of her back. >> but as april came to understand, eva could not abide boredom. she was restless. so when she left the flying life, settling down was not easy. >> i ...

>> over and over, he told detectives he couldnt quite remember. just flashes, a hazy feeling hed fought against this intruder. >> it was evas knife. it was a swiss army knife. the big blade was open and it was laying on the floor by her feet, near the sliding glass door. >> just the sort of thing she would carry around? >> we asked him what knife did you use? he said evas army knife. in fact, it should be there someplace. we used it to slice cheese earlier in the night. he said thats the only kn...

>> frisco studied the detectives report. it appeared that evas murder was now both a legal and medical issue. for advice, frisco consulted another d.a., dinko bozanich, who specialized in cases involving mental defenses. >> if he truly was sleepwalking, at the time of the episode, then he was not conscious, not criminally responsible, not guilty. >> really? the idea that reitz might not be held responsible for evas death horrified her family. >> how is that possible? how could he even get off on...

and the minds from my colleagues from cnn international who were there when it happened right from the start. january 2011, the first rumblings of an up rising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in the citys central tahrir square. a revolution has begun. >> what is your message to president mubarak? >> reporter: whose hosni mubarak has been egypts dictate for for 30 years. a growing number of protesters want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protests turn violent. >> reporte...

Pounded by a powerful wintry blast. the storm dumped more than 8 inches of snow in some towns across pennsylvania. making it tough for many drivers to get around. much of the snow and ice is expected to melt today. >> melt. get out of here. heres your thursday forecast. that northeast storm has cleared out with the exception of some light snow in northern new england. showers in florida. cooler along the gulf coast. 6 inches of lake-effect snow in upper michigan. snow showers for kansas and ne...