>> well, i think it was the beckwiths.er that they have in that community and i believe that they were putting political pressure on the state to prosecute this. >> the suggestion that there was some sort of political pressure that was put on my office to push this case forward or to charge it is absolute nonsense. it didn't happen. >> reporter: as alex waited for trial, things got worse. his 5-year-old daughter coco was diagnosed with cancer and underwent a bone marrow transplant. >> his daughter's illness took a huge toll on our family but i will say this about my son. i saw him as very strong. you know, he was handling things that i don't think most people could. >> reporter: it had taken four years after his wife's death, but finally alex fazzino went on trial for her murder. >> please rise. >> reporter: because of pre-trial publicity and the high profile beckwith name, the case was moved out of boone, 200 miles away to decorah, iowa. where the fazzinos and the beckwiths were now separated by much more than the courtro

. >> my name is kathrin beckwith, and i learned about this when a friend called me yesterday. i've not had any notice of this. i am wondering if this means that you can't change your building at all, that you can't build up within the height limit that exists now, even though you might be preserving the ground floor. does anyone know? >> well, we'll address that -- we can address that when we get back to the commission, but we can't really answer questions directly at public comment time. we can take up your comment... >> i -- >> we can respond to it shortly, but we can't have a dialogue right now. >> fine. i'll move on. i've had this building a long time. i watched where south of market grew. i watched where no major parks were put in. i've watched where burton designated park on the waterfront made into a rehabilitation place when there were historic buildings right behind it, maybe even abandoned that needed to be saved, and yet, there's no park there where everybody would enjoy it right by the water. i don't want this block to be used as a light corridor for others that mi