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Number one, you have to give them a fair shake. okay. what happened? tell us your side. >> nothing in reitzs story suggested he would ever want to harm eva, let alone kill her, especially during their stay here in catalina. >> there was no indication that they argued or fought about anything. according to him, they were having a wonderful, beautiful evening. when he was awakened by an intruder and everything else transpired after that. >> over and over, he told detectives he couldnt quite rememb...

Intruder or something, im thinking. i knew i was -- i felt threatened for some reason. but it had nothing to do with eva. i wasnt dreaming about eva. >> he then said something chilling. theres no other way to put it. he said he was sitting on the bed and she was still alive and she was moaning. and he saw the lacerations to her neck and he said -- >> it began to occur to me that i was responsible for that. cause of the wounds. thats what i do to shark fishing. >> i said, why would you recognize ...

Steven reitzs gruesome confession regarding the cause of death, the deep slash to the spinal cord. >> i attended the autopsy. thats not standard protocol for a prosecutor. i attended it because ive never seen a case like this. >> deputy d.a. chris frisco was initially assigned to look into the case. he had never encountered such an alibi. >> what i was concerned about was looking at the injuries and trying to determine if, in fact, the defendant is -- or was sleep walking -- >> frisco studied th...

She was restless. so when she left the flying life, settling down was not easy. >> i think she was looking for the excitement in other ways. it was almost like let me stir the pot a little bit. >> along comes this young guy. >> sure. exciting. >> april was evas bridesmaid, hoped eva would reconcile with her pilot husband and when the stephen thing began, she heard all about it. >> hes a good-looking guy, fun to be around. he was available to do pretty much anything she wanted to do, because i do...

Doctor. >> a federal judge is ordering casey anthony to return money used to search for her daughter, caylee. now, back to our program. unfortunately, the best witness in the case is dead. she was gone. >> d.a. chris frisco had a problem, stephen reitz, under investigation for killing his girlfriend, eva. he claimed to be sleep walking, not in control when he beat and stabbed her to death. but judging from the violent crime scene and witnessing evas autopsy, frisco was convinced this had to be...

>> but beating and stabbing eva, that he said he could recall nothing. this is a woman supposedly -- hes having an affair with her. if he doesnt love her, he at least likes her. >> because we didnt have a motive, an apparent and obvious motive, its in the back of your mind, okay, is he sleepwalking? is there some validity to what hes saying? >> and maybe there was. after all, reitz claimed to have a history of sleepwalking and he was also diagnosed as being bipolar and he certainly seemed forthr...

Testimony about the attack, and that theory did not involve sleepwalking. >> i think something went wrong, obviously, in that room and he snapped. >> then the prosecutor told the jury about reitzs episode of jealous rage a few months before. he told them how he broke into her apartment and how he waved a knife around and how evas relatives noticed bruising, bite marks. >> so you see the parallels, the very same behavior, pounding on the door, breaking into the room, wielding a pocketknife and th...

Happened here in catalina? detectives kept digging and from evas friends and family, they heard allegations about a dark side of stephens 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. shed come home with her sister and her mother, theyd 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 woul...

>> 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 kill eva. had no recollection whatsoever of what he did. he was not in control. now, reitz and medical science would be on trial. was his lover eva weinfurtner killed in a tragic, unconscious accident or was it a cold-blooded, calculated murder? coming up, the man who admits stabbing his lover to deat...

There was no question. he did it. but was stephen reitz conscious or actually asleep when he killed his lover, the beautiful eva weinfurtner, that night in catalina? now a jury would decide. it had taken more than three years to get here. and evas family had mixed emotions about finally going to trial, especially such a high-profile case that featured cameras from abcs "good morning america" in the courtroom. >> you know, youre working through healing and trying to move on with your life. and th...