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Behalf of nurse vivian torrentes family. he thinks the case was rigged in order to downplay something else tragic he believes happened that night. that edmond safra, terrified and paranoid, forced his nurse to die with him. >> safra was guilty of involuntary homicide by preventing vivian torrente from escaping. >> torrentes autopsy report contains what could be evidence of a struggle, bruising around the neck. details her family says had never been fully investigated. >> obviously suggests that ...

Scared the hell out of me. >> edmond safra had a crack security team. why not go to them? why not tell them the security of edmond safra is compromised and your family has been threatened? >> my primary motive for my silence was the safety of my family. and i wasnt going to put them at risk. >> ted went to work the next night. he says the window shutter hed been warned about was already open. he believes the men who stabbed him came in through that window and says all hes guilty of is trying to ...

Teds knife wounds, superficial and self-inflicted. the fire, set by ted. the motive? ted was afraid of losing his dream job and wanted to curry favor by staging false heroics. >> he wanted to impress his boss. he was on very bad terms with the main nurse. two reasons. >> the international thriller starring the billionaire banker had fizzled into a sad tale about a desperate, possibly unstable employee. >> theres a human story now, but suddenly its about the nurse. >> teds arrest was a devastatin...

R represents americans imprisoned abroad. most notably, he was the defense lawyer in the sensational case that bame the movie "midnight express." griffith got involved in teds defense after he was contacted by amnesty international. >> he told me about the intruders. i told him that i could bring the justice department into this operation and possibly have the fbi contact the monaco authorities to do a real investigation. >> you saw this as, hey, maybe he signed a confession, but who believes a ...

>> exactly. >> and its all solved. >> yes. >> case closed. or was it? coming up, what was really behind ted mahers confession? >> i just needed to see him. to make sure he was okay. >> when the mystery of the billionaire banker continues. its hard to find time to keep up on my shows.

Police said ted maher had confessed to faking an armed attack on edmond safras monaco penthouse, setting it ablaze, killing the billionaire and a fellow nurse. in the span of a news cycle, he had been transformed from hero to villain. you made up the store be the intruders. >> right. >> out of whole cloth. >> right. >> to make yourself look like a hero. thats the confession you signed. ted repeated that story numerous times to authorities investigating the case. he even walked police through his...

>> they arrested him. they prevented him from going inside. >> a picture of an inept bungling monaco police department was beginning to take shape. the story now had the potential to be a huge source of embarrassment for the principality, which banked on its reputation as a safe haven for the rich and royal. with each new detail, the story of the banker and his masked assassins became increasingly bizarre. but according to authorities here, there was a reason why early news reports read like a h...

Banker edmund safra and his nurse had to some, added up to a muddle of half-truths and unproven accusations. >> everybody in this story believes what suits him. >> ted maher believes that he was witness to an assassination attempt gone awry. but we had some more questions about his version of events. >> can you help me understand a few more things. if we can go back to the night in question. >> remember, ted says he was abducted two days before the attack. and told that a window shutter needed t...

Hes telling the truth when he says he did it. >> exactly. >> and its all solved. >> yes. >> case closed. or was it? coming up, what was really behind ted mahers confession? >> i just needed to see him. to make sure he was okay. >> when the mystery of the billionaire banker continues. this is the best block of all. its like candy cane lane. i know. oohhh. oh, holiday ferris wheel. i kind of love it. look at those reindeer. jeffrey, youre awfully quiet back there. i was just thinking... maybe its ...

That the trial was rigged from the start and last summer a monaco judge came forward with evidence to back them up. that judge, who approved teds indictment says he was part of a secret meeting where the prosecutor and one of teds very own monaco attorneys agreed in advance to fix the verdict and the sentence. an official investigation is under way. the prosecutor on the case and teds monaco attorneys all say the trial wasnt fixed. and point out that teds conviction was ultimately decided by a s...