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00:14:47.420Klaus's other alleged motive, the roughly $14 million, equivalent to about 48 million bucks today,
00:14:55.300He stood to inherit under Sonny's will versus what he would get if he divorced her.
00:15:01.540This time, Judge Grand bars the family's banker, Morris Gurley, from telling the jury about the money at all.
00:15:08.280Her ruling is narrow, and at the time, it is one of the most criticized decisions of the trial.
00:15:14.500Grand finds there is no foundation connecting financial gain to the specific acts the state alleges.
00:15:21.280that, in her words, there is not a suggestion anywhere
00:15:24.660that financial gain drove the defendant to do what the state says he did.
00:15:29.620To let a jury hear the $14 million anyway, she reasons,
00:15:33.800would invite them to convict on a motive rather than on evidence.
00:15:38.640And because Klaus again does not testify,
00:15:41.840the prosecution never gets another opportunity
00:15:43.960to introduce the inheritance evidence in rebuttal.
00:15:47.740The motive that anchored the whole first trial, the idea that Sonny's fortune gave Klaus a reason to want her dead, is a story this second jury simply never hears.
00:16:01.120And now the jury hears about the Q notes.
00:16:04.000In our last episode, Alan Dershowitz pried loose the interview notes that the family's own lawyer, the former Manhattan prosecutor Richard Q, had kept from the defense for years by claiming they were privileged.
00:16:17.360At this trial, those notes finally come out in open court.
00:16:21.780The defense argues that in the earliest interviews taken within days of Sonny's coma, the insulin that would become the center of this entire case went unmentioned.
00:16:32.800And that the account changed over time, hardening into the version eventually presented to the first jury.
00:16:41.580Q has always answered that omission means nothing, that he simply did not write down everything he was told.
00:17:01.940They had descriptions of what was found every time the maid looked into the little case, and there was no mention of anything even resembling insulin.
00:17:13.680The prosecution's other pillar was the mistress, Alexandra Isles, the soap opera actress the state had cast as Von Bulo's reason to kill in the first trial.
00:17:23.620She has fled the United States rather than face a second trial, purportedly to visit her mother in Ireland, telling a former lover of hers that she has no intention of returning to testify.
00:17:36.460For most of the second trial, Sonny's children remain remote figures, staying out of sight.
00:17:42.440But upon hearing this news, that their stepfather's former mistress is not coming back to testify, Alexander and Allah step forward in a blaze of publicity.
00:17:52.360At a New York news conference, they appeal for Alexandra Isles to return and testify,
00:17:58.160and they speak as they have all along for the mother who cannot speak for herself.
00:18:04.060Klaus von Hulow, as a defender, is entitled to a fair trial.
00:20:08.160A woman who truly believed this man had tried to murder his wife would not have kept writing to him, wanting to be with him, asking him back.
00:20:16.960After weeks of experts and lab reports and blood chemistry, the lawyers sum up.
00:20:22.460Puccio zeroes in on the heart of the prosecution's case, the maid.
00:20:27.460He turns the jury back to Maria Schralhammer, Sonny's devoted maid of 23 years and the state's star witness in both trials.
00:20:37.460Puccio argues that if Maria had really seen what she later swore she saw, she would not have stayed quiet about it.
00:20:45.460it. The prosecutor, Mark DeSisto, gives the jury the other picture, the one the state has believed
00:21:07.540from the start. He loads his needle and syringe with insulin. He goes to his wife and you see
00:21:13.980the intent. What's he thinking? And he finds the spot. And now he's pressing the plunger in.
00:21:20.140And what is he thinking? As that insulin is released into her body, what is he thinking?
00:21:25.020Can you see it? He's pressing the plunger down and the insulin is going in and it's releasing
00:21:30.120all the tension. He's going to be with malaging proteins. He doesn't have to find a journal.
00:21:36.320The case goes to the jury, and the waiting begins.
00:21:42.280These 12 people have now been sequestered for roughly eight weeks,
00:21:46.520kept together in a Providence Holiday Inn,
00:21:49.340apart from husbands and wives and children, the entire time.
00:21:53.560By now, the trial has disrupted not only their lives,
00:21:56.720but the lives of the people waiting for them back at home.
00:24:26.980At the start of the second trial, the jury had toured the darkened halls of Clarendon Court, walking the layout of the alleged crime scenes.
00:24:36.160While that jury is out deliberating, Sonny's children, Ala and Alexander, invite journalist Dominic Dunn, who had known Sonny since she was a debutante and has covered the whole affair, to spend the night at Clarendon Court.
00:24:51.580He finds Sonny's bedroom kept exactly as it was the night of the second coma.
00:24:56.980He finds the twin beds pushed together and made up with Sonny's porto sheets.
00:25:02.240An old photograph of Klaus looking almost noble in a silver frame on his side of the bed.
00:25:08.980And in a closet beside her evening gowns, the Christmas presents from 1980,
00:25:15.940still wrapped, the festive paper gone faded and limp.
00:25:20.720One from Sonny's oldest friend, one from her dead mother.
00:25:24.900On Klaus's bedside table, there is a handsome box.