Oscar Pistorius: Superhero 'Blade Runner' to Calculated Murderer

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Oscar Pistorius became famous for not allowing a handicap to stand in his way of track and field success.

After becoming a Paralympic Champion, he fought his way through the courts to be allowed to compete in non-disabled competitions. In 2012, he competed in the Summer Olympics in London and became one of the most famous people in the world, earning the nickname "Blade Runner" for the prosthetic legs he uses to run.

Less than six months after the Olympic Games, Pistorius claims he hears a noise in the middle of the night and thinks someone is breaking in, but what happens next lands him in jail, charged with murder!

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they break down the case of Oscar Pistorius. Did he kill his girlfriend in cold blood or was it a horrible mistake?

Transcript Highlights:

00:01:11 Oscar Pistorius getting out of prison

00:03:11 Pistorius fought to compete in non-disabled competition

00:04:02 Discussion of who Oscar Pistorius is and his fame at the time of this incident

00:06:58 Discussion of legs being amputated at 11 months old

00:10:56 How to figure out directionality of weapons that are fired

00:12:40 Pistorius and Steenkamp had dated only 90 days

00:13:45 Body Bags and Domestic Disputes

00:14:52 Discussion of waking up, hearing something

00:16:05 Pistorius claims he heard things, overcome with fear

00:17:37 Talk about Pistorius and guns

00:19:15 What happens when victim is in bathroom?

00:21:51 He claims that he shot her after he had put his legs on.

00:22:06 Story told by Pistorius doesn’t match facts

00:24:12 Discussion of victim being shot through the door

00:25:57 Discussion of stomach contents of victim

00:26:15 Time of morning, 3:19am

00:26:41Said there were four quick shots.

00:28:14 Did he retrieve his legs at this point in time and come back to?

00:29:34 Talk about scene, towels, debris, trying to stop bleeding

00:30:29 Discussion of the Blades giving him and advantage

000:31:33 Pistorius remains on scene, in kitchen, should have been in back of squad car

00:32:26 Three components in gunshot residue. We look for antimony, we look for barium and we look for lead.

00:33:43 Talk about prosthetics and if he had them on

00:34:38 Discussion about suspect is not in charge of investigation

00:35:35 Pistorius claims he kept her airway open with his fingers

00:36:35.Pistorius is scheduled to be released from custody in January of 2024

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. I don't know about y'all, but throughout my life I've been around people.
0:17.0	I don't know about y'all, but throughout my life I've been around people that that have some level of perhaps notoriety
0:29.4	I've been around people that when you see them
0:35.0	they look like they stepped right out of the pages of some fashion magazine and whatnot. And I think half the world is
0:40.5	envious of these types of people, maybe the life that they lead, being able to jet
0:45.4	set all over places, mingle with other pretty people as they say.
0:51.3	I've often said having done autopsies on both the rich and the poor.
1:00.0	Everybody's blood is just as red.
1:03.7	To date, I want to reflect on a case that I started covering back in 2014
1:10.3	when I was appearing on H-L-N.
1:18.1	It is something that has caught my attention this past week and it is the revelation
1:25.0	that a one Oscar Pistorius is going to be turned back loose on society.
1:35.2	After less than a decade of being incarcerated for the brutal homicide of his girlfriend, Rivosteen.
1:36.9	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body backs. I started covering this case back in 2014 and you were covering
1:47.3	wall true crime and went in many times on this particular topic actually I remember covering it specifically with my buddy
1:56.9	Vinny Polytant you know Vinny works over court TV now and he and I covered this case for months and it was it was a weird
2:07.3	a weird kind of thing because it's obviously this case originates out of South
2:12.3	Africa and it's the way they do things is
2:17.1	completely different from a judicial standpoint than the way we do things here in the
2:21.5	state first off did you know that in South Africa,
2:24.4	your case is not heard by a jury? Your case is heard by the judge
2:31.2	and it's heard by what I refer to as two assessors.
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