
Oscar Pistorius: Burden of Truth
Reeva Steenkamp died on Valentine's Day 2013, shot four times through a locked bathroom door by her boyfriend, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius. The film sets out the two competing accounts that dominated the South African trial: a tragic case of mistaken identity, with Pistorius insisting he believed an intruder was behind the door, or a premeditated killing dressed up as an accident. Forensic experts walk through the ballistics, the trajectory of the bullets, and the timeline of screams and gunshots that neighbors reported hearing that night, since the physical evidence became the real battleground once both sides agreed on almost nothing else. A criminal law expert frames the legal stakes plainly: the entire case turns on proving intention. The film weighs the disability defense Pistorius raised, the psychological profile prosecutors built against him, and the inconsistencies investigators found in his testimony, without pretending the forensic record settles the question outright.