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Like most everybody else in the country. and i've got my own opinions about that. and if that's the strength of their case i mean i can be ready tomorrow. >> as durst waits for the next step in this legal process, the mental and physical health of this 71-year-old defendant has come into question. the judge may have an issue with competence. do you have an issue with competence? >> no i don't have any issue with him being competent. he's a little frail, and he has some memory problems sometimes. but he's not incompetent. >> so why would this respected texas lawyer want to again represent a man...

That he's not going to be released on bail, under any circumstances. so he will either be in custody in new orleans or he'll be in custody in l.a. >> although i've got to say, when his attorney says look i could defend him tomorrow if all the evidence he has is his mumbles in the bathroom saying you know killed them all, of course i can kind of see his point. >> it is a defensible case. in fact deguren got him off in what seemed a much tougher case. >> shooting his next door neighbor and dismembering him. >> that's not the whole case remember. there is also the letter the two letters, one of w...

Don't have such a person who works here. i'm not sure haven monahan exists. >> so i guess somebody hearing this will say, well gosh i mean that's all pretty conclusive. it all sounds like a pretty lengthy investigation, a costly investigation on your part. why not just now say, that the case is closed. >> i think it does a disservice to this person woe now know as jackie and other survivors to know even after an investigation like this we're just going to close it and say, okay, we're done. i don't have enough information to say that nothing happened. i just have information to say that we don...

Doesn't mean something terrible didn't happen to the college freshman called jackie at a fraternity house in 2012, just that the investigation has not uncovered sufficient facts and has no evidence of anything happening at that fraternity house. the case is not closed. so the woman who alleged the rape she didn't cooperate with the authorities. so what did police do to investigate the allegation? >> you know it took a lot of police work. investigators say that they spoke to nine of the 11 members of that fraternity. they sifted through phone records. here's this anderson. they say that they un...

Jackie's story is a setback for the cause. >> i don't think it hurts our cause on the whole. we've had scores of people come forward, and even more people wanting to help. >> reporter: meaning what police say didn't happen on rugby road could still make everyone at uva a little safer. >> rosa flora joins us now. has the fraternity acted to the results yet? >> the fraternity coming forward and saying that these allegations have been very damning to their organization in a statement they're saying in part i'm going to quote here the fraternity is now exploring its legal options to address the ex...