article_snippet: his wireless microphone still live was broadcast and has since been charged with murder in the December 2000 shooting death of Susan Berman.
article_snippet: the the HBO finale about his links to three killings — that of his first wife, who disappeared in New York in 1982; Susan Berman, the daughter a mobster and a close friend who acted as his spokeswoman after his wife disappeared; and a 71-year-old neighbor in Texas whose dismembered body was found floating in Galveston Bay in 2001.
article_snippet: previous convictions are not serious enough to merit the gun charge.
article_snippet: Investigators had reopened that case and planned to speak with Berman when Berman was shot once in the back of Berman head at Berman home near Beverly Hills.
article_snippet: himself claimed self-defense and was acquitted of murder but was convicted of unlawfully disposing of the man's body, which was found chopped up and floating in Galveston Bay.
article_snippet: In the case of Blake, prosecutors sought to introduce a portion of a jailhouse interview of the actor discussing the actor family with Barbara Walters because it contradicted other evidence.
article_snippet: self-defense then successfully pushed to bring in the rest of a jailhouse interview of the actor discussing his family with Barbara Walters.
article_snippet: 'self-defense did a great deal both to humanize himself and so himself wasn't just seen as a celebrity,' said M. Gerald Schwartzbach, who won Blake's acquittal on a murder charge involving the killing of himself wife. '