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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 no...

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 t...

>> the thing that tortures you the most is that you should have been there. you could -- you blame yourself. you should have done something. >> was there any doubt in your mind that roger had committed suicide? >> no. i mean, i didn't have any reason to think anything else. >> arthur hodges, then a local newspaper reporter, started looking into roger de la burde's life and his death. >> he had been regarded as someone who was full of life, had a ton of projects going on. real estate deals, art deals, working on a book about his collection. >> so in many ways, the last person on earth to commit...

Her. >> beverly tried to make the most of her ordeal. she read poetry and taught computer classes to other prisoners. but her primary focus was her own case. >> i want to clear my name. i want to set the record straight. i want my life back. >> but by 1998 beverly had lost two appeals. the next step was federal court. katie knew she needed help and contacted steve northup, an experienced lawyer who agreed to take on beverly's case free of charge. >> i felt she was an innocent person. we don't have any dna evidence. we don't have any fingerprints. so we're never going to be able to prove defini...

Roger wasn't a victim, he was a villain. beverly monroe's daughter came to her rescue. >> is your mother a murderer? >> oh, god, no. >> a recent law school graduate, katie monroe was convinced the case against her mother amounted to little more than speculation and conjecture. >> i could hardly imagine a weaker case. i can say with complete confidence that the prosecution did not prove that this was a homicide. >> because they'd initially assumed the death was a suicide, police at roger's home hadn't preserved the crime scene. there was no physical evidence, no fingerprints, no fibers, nothing...