. >> arthur hodges, then a local newspaper reporter, started looking into roger de la burde's life and his death. >> he had been regarded as someone who was full of life, had a ton of projects going on. real estate deals, art deals, working on a book about his collection. >> so in many ways, the last person on earth to commit suicide? >> right. a lot of people, right after the obituary ran in the paper, said, no way. i don't buy it. he did not kill himself. >> and though police were treating roger's death as a suicide, they had questions for beverly monroe. >> they called me to come out to the farm that morning, all just normal and casual. we sat in the kitchen, and he said call me dave. >> dave was detective david riley. two weeks after roger's death, he questioned beverly for several hours and then asked her to come to state police headquarters. >> he said, but, you know, we've got to go through this procedure with everybody. being the southern woman, that's all it took. i was not about to inconvenience the police. >> you didn't want to put them out? >> of course not. i just did what