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>> tease of >> a murderer the sentencing of wall street murderer jason bond who americanslessly strangled and beat his girlfriend death in 2012. the bizarre twist here is he claims he doesn't remember any of it. >> the gruesome kroois crime was to heavily covered by tabloids. i sat down with dr. michelle ward who came face-to-face with bond to find out how the new york lawyer transformed into a cold blooded murderer. tonight, the "insider" investigates the case of the ivy league killer. >> what is it like to go into a prison and stare into the eyes of a killer? >> oh, i was scared. he walked into the room with thest intense stare i've ever seen. what was the first time i'm like, whoa there it is, there's that look people talk about. >> inside the mo clinton correctional facility dr. michelle ward sat across from jason bond, a cold blooded killer convicted of brutally
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beating his girlfriend 27-year-old weight watcher's executive danielle thomas to death. >> i don't know. whatever you want me to do, i'll do it. >> jason says his mother maureen oh connell, now the cfo of scholastic abandon him to focus on 4er career and his father was an abusive drug addict. as a result, he grew up in foster care eventually becoming a bully himself. >> i would say over time i becaviolent, yes. >> as he matured, jason lacked the impulse control most rationale people have. violence to him wasme ond nature. >> do you know these are going happen before they happen? is it something that gets under your skin? >> no no. it just happens. just like that. sec i've probably hit a thousand people in my life. >> highly intelligent jason rose above his difficulty
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childhood to anterior master's degree from columbia university and in 2010 began a legal career on wall street. >> how was he able to get so far? to get from a foster home and get an ivy league education and get to wall street? >> whatever jason wants to do he does. there was one tri when he felt he was being abandon by his girlfriend, he would become very very violent. >> you know what? you're so -- >> stop. >> ingger.une of 2012 b in a fit of rage, jason beat danielle to death in their manhattan j apartment. danielle inadvertently dialed a friend of hers that night leaving a recording o murder. >> i'm going to let you up. >> jason claims he remembers nothing of the night. he was convicted of first degree murder andf the sentenced to life without parole. >> how did you feel physically when you loved somebody? >> sometimes i would shake cry
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foam fe mouth. sometimes i would feel like i was watching it over there. >> i wanted to spend more time with him. i wanted to understand him better. part of jason was really open torom th that. he wanted to understand himself better. but i couldn't lose the fact that there was a very wonderful girl who died at his hand straight ahead the princeton grad charged with the murder of his hedge fund father. plus how love ultimat i'm louis, and i quit smokings.th chantix. quitting smoking is a challenge and it's a lot easier to go into a fight when you've got somebody that's got your back. having chantix as a partner made it more successful. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is prove wielp people quit smoking. chantix helped reduce my urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions whin to hing or after stopping chantix. some people had seizures while taking chantix. if you have any of these stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about le takhistory of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix or history of seizures. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic
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the son of a hedge fund manager in court accused of killing his father in his luxury apartment. >> that is the headline story of thomas gilbert jr. charged with the murder of his hedge fund founder father in january. >> gilbert is still set to inherent one-third of his father's fortune. >> the circumstances of the fatal shooting and their x father-son relationship is the focus of tonight's insider investigators, the price of privilege. suspect thomas gilbert jr. arrived in courtcomple in an orange jumpsuit, full beard and his hands cuffed behind his back. he sat there stoically before entering a not guilty plea. >> the district attorney indicted thomas gilbe jr. for
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the murder of his father. >> from what i saw there appeared to be no family members and no friends there to support him. >>rt thomas gilbert jr. had it all, a degree from harvard university access to the hottest events in new york but also had a dark side. he had previously been in trouble with the law. >> when a son kills his father people will ask questions. the fact of the matter is it ha hein a world where a lot of people like to press their face up against the glass and look in. >> the unemployedppens 30-year-old apparently lived off his father's generosity. according to police when thomas sr. threatened to lessen his son's weekly allowance from $400 to $300 thomas jr. went to his parents' east manhattan apartment building asked his mother to leave and confronted his father. reportedly when mrs. gilbert returned and found her son gone and her husband dead she
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promptly called 911. >> she said the son shot the father. >> we are told he went into his father's bedroom and they had obviously a disagreement and then he shot him in the head. >> we immediately spoke to mrs. gilbert and she told us where her son lived. >> detectives say they found thomas jr. in his apartment just blocks from his father's buildi inside, they discovered a box for a .40 caliber weapon, the same used in the homicide. they found sng. casings and charged him with murder. >> many, many people did say he had serious mental issues had become very argumentative in recent months and washell becoming more violent. >> remarkably even if thomas jr. is found guilty it's possible he could still inherent up toone-third of his father's reported $1.6 million estate. >> if it wasn't premeditated murder, somehow there may be some legal opening that would
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allow him to inherit those funds. >> i do believe every day he woke up he was thinking about who his next victim was going to be. >> that is a glimpse inside the mind of christopher rocancourt the discussion of vanity fair confidential. >> rocancourt rubbed elbows with the hollywood elite, but after life on the run it was ultimately love that was his down fall. >> he was so fu a sense of humor. there was a fire, he had life. >> she thought she had it 5u8, a perfect marriage with the love nny, life. >> he was super charming and charismatic with me. he was very real. >> but what she didn't know is her husband waof her a liar a thief and a fraud. >> christopher rocancourt is a pure conmas
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♪ from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> last chance for villanova trying to get it into overtime. nope it goes right. inform c state is headed to the sweet 16! march madness indeed. the first number one seed of the ncaa tournament has fallen and it is the villanova wildcats. good evening everyone. i'm natasha brown. thanks for joining us a shocker in the steal city tonight. it came down to the very last possession. nova had a chance but jay wright's squad is going home much earlier than many predict.
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"eyewitness sports" reporter lesley van arsdall is live for us in pittsburgh tonight. lesley, what happened? >> reporter: natasha i don't think they know at this point. they are in shock. this was as you said a tough loss. they're going home much earlier than they expected. we'll show you the guys coming off the court just dejected after this game. this was supposed to be their year. it's especially hard for the seniors on this team car run hilliard and jason pinkston. hilliard kept the team in this one. he had a game high 27 points. they shot 28% from the field in this heartbreaking 71-68 loss to inform c state. >> it's tough. these guys have done so much for me. these guys are my brothers my everything. >> we felt that we had it. we let it slip away at the end but we battleed.
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they just were the better team today. >> we all had high expectations. we had them all year. we were able to live up the expectations we ran no a good team. definitely disappointed we should keep our heads high because of how well we played this whole year. >> reporter: they did have an unbelievable season. they have just have to deal with this loss right now and coming up later in sports we'll hear from head coach jay wright but right now i'm going to toss it over to david spunt on the villanova campus. >> reporter: lesley a lot of high blood pressure here on the villanova campus tonight. i got to tell you i was watching the game on a big screen at the student union behind me tonight. and just so many cheers and then some people were tense and it just went up up down emotional roller coaster as we had a chance to watch it with them. it was just one of those moments that one second they seemed to be ahead then the next second they seemed to be down and in the end, it ended by a three-point lead. a three-point final score and i
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talked to some hard core villanova fans that they said villanova has been in their family for years. here's what they had to say. >> i don't know even know what to say. oh god. tears in my eyes. i'm not kidding. oh god. that was rough to watch. >> at the end everyone was really holding on to that last hope and i really thought we were going to get. tough to see. >> oh, my gosh, i can't breathe. ugh. unfortunate, you know, out come. but we're still proud to be wildcats and still proud to be part of this community. they work really hard. >> reporter: proud to be a wildcat. proud to be part of this community. i know these students are hopeful for next year. they were expecting to be here a lot longer tonight but this place behind mow cleared out probably five or so minutes after that game ended. it was really hard to scene get interviews because people wanted to get out of there so quickly after the game. live at villanova david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> david, a tough loss. thank you so much. well tonight philadelphia is
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mourning the loss of a legend. eagles braid check bednarik passed away today after a brief elains. the hallly famer is considered the greatest eagle ever. >> he wore number 60 but they called him concrete charlie he was famous for being one of the physically dominating players in the history of the game. he was the last of the inform fl' twos-way players playing center on offense and middle linebacker on defense. and only coming off the field for kickoffs. former eagles coach dick vermeil says bednarik was philadelphia. >> it didn't tack you long coming to philadelphia from the west coast to recognize that chuck bednarik were you a symbol of excellence, a symbol of toughness, winning being the kind of person he was very up front and outspoken. he was, i think sort of immortalized. >> after serving in world war ii the bethlehem pennsylvania native began an all-american career at the university of
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pennsylvania. drafted with the first pick in the 1949 draft by the eagles he led the team to 2nfl championships including the team's last championship in 19 asking inform his 14 seasons with the eagles, he only missed three games while playing in eight pro bowls. he was lecked to the pro football hall of fame in 1967. >> he was the greatest eagle of all time. i mean when i think of the great eagles and there have been a lot of great eagles going way back to steve van buren and norm van brock land and tommy mcdonald and reggie white if i were to name one e guilty i would put at the top of the least it could be chuck bednarik. >> chuck bednarik was 89 years old. team own are in jeffrey lurie issued a statement saying in part "philadelphia fans growing up expecting toughness all out evident and a workmanlike attitude from this team and so much of that image has its roots in the way chuck
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played the game. you can learn more about chuck bednarik's life and career on our website just go to cbsphilly.com. turning to our weather we had little spring warmup today helped melt the snow yes fester yesterday's storm. temperatures are heading for the freezing mark overnight. that could mean refreezing concerns as well. meteorologist justin drabick is in the weather center with the look at the forecast another chilly day ahead for us. justin. >> that's right, natasha. several chilly days ahead. spring put on hold a little bit. today really not that bad and sunshine temperatures near average in the low to mid 50s. who are we go. some cloud cover over the region right now. we're dry on storm scan3. there is going to be a cold front that passes through overnight. that's going to be responsible for ushering in that colder air mass but the front not through our area just yet. so compared to 24 hours ago look at this f11 to 17 degrees warmer so outside now it's really not that bad. check it out.
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50 degrees is our current temperature our high today was 52 in philadelphia. 46 in reading and allentown. 35 in mount pocono so the cold air still to our north and west. suburbs not bad this hour. 44 in doylestown. mt. holly, new jersey, checking in at 47 degrees. it will get colder overnight. by the time you wake up tomorrow morning many spots down around freezing even freezing to the north and west. reading, allentown 30 to 29 degrees for those morning temperatures early on the day sunday. not much of a rebound during the afternoon. it will be breezy, partly sun know skies, 44 for the high for philadelphia. cool and breezy at the shore. 42 and chilly in the mountains only near freezing for the afternoon high on sunday so this is a good 10 degrees below average. now coming up i'll show you the seven day forecast. we'll talk about how long this cool down lasts and our next of any precipitation as we set up to see a dry pattern the next few days. those details in few more minutes. natasha. >> justin, thank you so much. also, new tonight a shooting sends an 11-year-old girl to the hospital.
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police say her older brother accidentally shot her. the bullet grazed the 11-year-old's head inside a home in philadelphia's wissonoming neighborhood. "eyewitness news" on charles street. police say the shoot is 14 years old. but have not said how the gun went off. neighbors are concerned. >> there shouldn't be no guns in sight of kids. you know, any of these kids could have got shot, too. >> who knows? like it's crazy. >> you got keep them all locked um w there's kids around you don't pull them out. that's my motto. that's the way i live with it. >> the 1184 old is expected to be okay. no word yet if any charges will be filed in this case. also philadelphia police are investigating a man's death after pulling his body from the delaware river in bridesburg. the body was spot aid round 3:00 this afternoon near the 3100 block of bucky street behind the bridesburg rec zen. the vick tum was an older man but haven't released his name or any other details. fire tour through a home
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killing seven children in brooklyn, new york this morning. authorities believe the fire was caused by a malfunctioning hot plate that was left on. the children's mother and her 14-year-old daughter managed to escape the flames through a second story window. they suffered burns and are currently in critical condition. >> this is the largest tragedy by fire that this city has had in seven years. >> it's a tragedy for this family it's a tragedy for this community, it's a tragedy for our city. >> the children's father was not at the home during the fire. he was reportedly away at a couldn't friend. authorities say the machete wielding man who tried to tack security agents at new orleans international airport has now died. 63-year-old richard white was shot multiple times by another security agent during the chaos. police say white was also carrying a bag loaded with sick molotov cocktails much the sheriff suggested white had mental health issues. and new developments to night in a wrong way crash that
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left two people dead including a linden inform, police officer. investigators have applied for a warn to test the blood alcohol level of the driver fellow linden officer pedro a bad. the accident happened early yesterday morning on the west shore expressway in staten island. authorities say the three off duty officers and another man were headed home from strip club and hit a tractor trailer on the wrong side of the road. ♪ >> stay with us everyone. coming up on "eyewitness news" tonight chilling new information and video of the gunman responsible for museum attack that left 21 people dead in tunisia. why are all these people runningrunning up the stairs of a center city high rise? we'll show you the good cause these runners helped to support. justin? spring has arrived but it's not going to feel like it. i'll show you a spring chill coming up in the seven day
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