robert durst.ike quicksand, it's sucks you in. >> bob is endlessly fascinating, and always surprises me. >> he was certainly elusive. material, sometimes desperate. always in motion. we track him, his dissent, his change detour off the road, off the grid. a life that no one, not even his family or close friends could fathom. >> he has a good heart inside. i really think so. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we begin with two people who know and love the man that they called bobby. godfather and son. close friend of more than 40 years, long before the rest of the world heard from him. when did you meet him? >> we went to high school together. >> stewart and emily altman, spoke to us after robert durst was arrested. >> they show assad of bob that he is not a monster. he has a heart. but it has caused me a great deal, that i can't get up my head around, is what happened to bob. it's hard. >> they altmans, shared personal photos. and the story of bob that they lived and breathed. starting with the family disaster that tormente

there's many high-profile cases, phil spector to robert durst, we've gone through the list, don't rich people go to jail a lot? >> sometimes money and fame can make you an example. and put a bull's-eye on you. not the same with those people weren't guilty, absolutely, that can draw attention and make you an example for a judge. or a prosecutor. or even a jury. i think, well i agree with everything that natasha and patrick just said, we should also be careful not to intimate that this jury had some bias against the murdaugh family. because they maybe knew who they were. i think they did their job. in the prosecutors burden is high. but that burden of reasonable doubt that could've squeaked in anywhere. it just didn't. it didn't in any of these moments of the trial. for them to come back so quickly meant, no reasonable doubt, not one juror said, well, i'm not convinced on this one thing, that's enough to hang a jury or to have an acquittal. and that didn't happen. i think it was so damning. >> what do you think what's going on there for those three hours? three hours, since you're someon

i mean, i think of, i mean, elizabeth holmes, phil specter, robert durst. we certainly watched the o.j. simpson trial, that has a different dynamic. >> martha stewart is at home tonight comfortable, but she wasn't for a while. >> i think we do see that. not to say -- they're more than one-offs, but i take your point. >> the wrap on the american justice system is sometimes you get the best justice money can buy, and this case seems to be potentially a counterargument. >> there's a limit to it. >> the prosecutor alluded to that in the press conference, we hope this gives you some faith in the judicial system. because we were not deterred or swayed by his money, his power, his lawyers. i think that is a huge factor in this. >> yes, what they also alluded to, the prosecutors, was the resources, federal government helped them out significantly putting together the time line, everything else, and so the federal government and the state government really joined together to do this case, and so it was a case, i think, where they put together a significant amount of