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But matt birkbeck believes bob's claims about the killing were attempts after the fact to sanitize what the evidence suggests was a brutal murder. >> it makes no sense. and if you look at the autopsy report, it shows that morris had been beaten severely in the upper torso, and he even perhaps suffered a heart attack. so obviously something else was going on. >> reporter: after his arrest, bob called his friends, the altmans, and tried to explain what happened. >> he said he went to a fugue state. he was an out of body experience. i -- it's hard to understand. >> reporter: charged with murder, ...

But matt birkbeck believes bob's claims about the killing were attempts after the fact to sanitize what the evidence suggests was a brutal murder. >> it makes no sense. and if you look at the autopsy report it shows that morris had been beaten severely in the upper torso, and he even perhaps suffered a heart attack. so obviously something else was going on. >> reporter: after his arrest bob called his friends the altmans and tried to explain what happened. >> he said he went to a fugue state. he was an out of body experience. i -- it's hard to understand. >> reporter: charged with murder, bob ...

Did it." but matt birkbeck believes bob's claims about the killing were attempts after the fact to sanitize what the evidence suggests was a brutal murder. >> it makes no sense. and if you look at the autopsy report it shows that morris had been beaten severely in the upper torso, and he even perhaps suffered a heart attack. so obviously something else was going on. >> reporter: after his arrest bob called his friends the altmans and tried to explain what happened. >> he said he went to a fugue state. he was an out of body experience. i -- it's hard to understand. >> reporter: charged with mur...

Did it." but matt birkbeck believes bob's claims about the killing were attempts after the fact to sanitize what the evidence suggests was a brutal murder. >> it makes no sense. and if you look at the autopsy report it shows that morris had been beaten severely in the upper torso, and he even perhaps suffered a heart attack. so obviously something else was going on. >> reporter: after his arrest bob called his friends the altmans and tried to explain what happened. >> he said he went to a fugue state. he was an out of body experience. i -- it's hard to understand. >> reporter: charged with mur...

And then he didn't serve out that time. in 2010 he was pardoned and traded to the west, traded in a western spy swap. he and three other russian prisoner were swapped for ten russians operating an undercover spy ring in the united states. ultimately he went to live in britain the country for which he had done his spying and of course he was the man who ended up slumped on a park bench in the british town of salisbury last week. he was in some sort of fugue state. witnesses described him making strange hand motions while otherwise being nonresponsive while his 33-year-old daughter slumped next ...