The victim, Bonny Lee Bakley, was herself a real piece of work. She had a "business", if you can call it that, of lonely hearts scams and sham marriages. She also had a considerable arrest record for drugs, identity fraud, passing bad checks, etc. A real weirdo.
His defense team argued, successfully, that she was in the crosshairs of any number of men who she had conned or cheated in her past.
I heard the parrot was doing two shows a night in Vegas.