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But judging from the violent crime scene and witnessing eva's autopsy, frisco was convinced this had to be calculated, conscious. >> when people are sleep walking, it's not easy to form all of these various steps in your mind. it's not as if he had thrashed about in the room and knocked over the furniture and woke up. everything he did was directed specifically at eva to ultimately murder her. >> ultimately d.a. frisco wouldn't get a chance to make that case to a jury. he was transferred to another office and handed the case to d.a. dinko bozanich. who, remember, specialized in cases involving...

>> so you see the parallels, the very same behavior, pounding on the door, breaking into the room, wielding a pocketknife and then threatening to gut her. it's the very same thing he did in this case. how do you say that he was sleepwalking when -- on a prior occasion he had the dress rehearsal? >> at trial, reitz never denied breaking into eva's apartment with the knife. nor did he deny that he was responsible for her bruises. the ones eva's family noticed. instead, reitz said in their passion, sometimes he grabbed her too firmly. she even went to a doctor, said reitz, to ask why she bruised ...

Outside and pick up a heavy flower pot and carry it back to the door of the room, which would have been locked behind him. so he must have pounded on the door until eva opened it, said the prosecutor. then he knocked her unconscious. with the flower pot. he must have beaten her and stabbed her and finally inflicted the fatal wounds to her neck. detective tomlin offered a theory of his own during 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 reitz's epi...

Understood how capable he was of hurting her. i think that she was in denial. >> and in hindsight, one alleged incident might have been a warning. >> she had told me a time where she woke up in the middle of the night and he was on top of her choking her. bizarre, bizarre behavior. >> could that have been another sleepwalking episode, another unintended attack? perhaps even a precursor to what happened here in catalina? detectives kept digging and from eva's friends and family, they heard allegations about a dark side of stephen's personality. >> he had a temper. talking to family members of e...

>> when i saw how horrific, it just amazed me. i couldn't believe it, really. i mean, there was no reason for it. >> obviously -- >> you're sorry. >> i'm sorry. i wanted to face the music. >> but who could back up his story? nobody heard the attack. nobody saw a man with vacant eyes walking the halls, carrying a flower pot or bloody knife. nobody screamed. >> that was extremely odd. because once again, if you saw the destruction, the mayhem in the room, you had to figure somebody had to hear something. >> and based on the chaos of the crime scene, detectives surmised the attack must have taken...