Sex and Lies in Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal Page #5

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Your new lawyer, what's his name?

David Daguerre. He's all right.

But he already ganged up on me

with Greg about my clothes.

Why?

"I'm afraid, Ms. Murphy,

you have a bit of an image problem."

Here.

I've changed myself into

whatever men want plenty of times.

I can change myself into

whatever these damn lawyers want.

Do you think I should call it

the trial of the century?

-I'd say that's a good call.

-Okay.

I'm here in front of the...

Wait, wait, here she comes.

-Here she is. Get her, Bruce?

-Got her.

-You got her?

-Got her now.

Sandy. A few words, Sandy.

Talk to me, Sandy.

You don't even look like you.

Well, according to some people,

that's a good thing.

Not to me.

When Teddy started to get so bad,

why didn't we just run away?

That's right. You couldn't bear

to walk away from all that shiny silver.

Baby, you know you wanted it, too.

All rise!

In the matter of The state of Nevada

v. Richard Tabish and sandra murphy,

court is now in session.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to

hear a tale of lust and greed.

The evidence will prove

beyond a reasonable doubt

that Ted Binion was murdered,

murdered by someone he trusted

and her new lover,

murdered by Sandy Murphy

and Rick Tabish.

Now, you will hear

from witness after witness,

who will reconstruct for you

the days leading up to the crime.

From the manicurist who heard Sandy

predict Ted's death by overdose...

I signed this stupid agreement that says

I don't get anything if I leave him.

But if he dies...

Trust me, the way that he uses,

he's going to OD.

He'll be dead in three weeks.

That's when Steve Wynn is having

his grand opening party for his new casino.

Do you think it'll look bad if I go to

something like that after my husband dies?

...to Rick's high school buddy

Frank Lipjanic,

a man Rick tried to hire to help him kill Ted.

You want me to do what now?

I want you to help me off the casino guy,

the guy I put all the silver in the ground for.

He's the one with the hot girlfriend?

She's hot. Got her in my back pocket.

If the guy bites it, the girl is mine,

the silver is mine.

And you know me, Frank.

I like to share with my friends.

Yes.

You will meet the physician

who prescribed Ted 120 Xanax tablets,

the drug dealer who sold him

And you will find out exactly what was

on Ted's mind the night before he died.

And you will hear the chilling words

spoken by Ted Binion himself

on the very eve of his murder.

The private dick I hired got pictures

of Sandy at the gym,

kissing on Tabish,

mr. muscles with the shiny teeth.

It's like you said, Lou.

You bring a b*tch home,

the dogs are going to smell her

when she's in heat.

They're going to sit outside,

howling and howling,

howl till she lets them in.

I want you to take the whore out of my will.

But you just put Sandy in your will.

And now I'm telling you to take her out.

That is, if she doesn't kill me tonight.

If I'm dead tomorrow,

you'll know what happened.

Well, clearly, a lot of excitement here

at the courthouse today.

The prosecution is expected

to call Dr. Michael Baden,

the nation's top forensic expert,

who also testified at the O.J. Simpson trial.

In a controversial move for the prosecution,

Dr. Baden's testimony is actually expected

to contradict that of the medical examiner.

-Go on, Dr. Baden.

-Thank you.

Well, I don't believe that the drug levels

in Mr. Binion's system were high enough

to cause death, at least not in an addict

with a high tolerance.

Then how, may we ask, did he die?

The autopsy photos show

the redness of abrasions over his mouth,

which to me is a sign of obstruction.

And there were broken blood vessels

under his eyes,

which indicate, you know,

a struggle to breathe.

Well, there were abrasions on his wrists,

which suggest being bound,

as well as red marks on his chest,

which appear to be imprints of buttons,

probably by someone

who's kneeling on him.

I believe he was likely forced

to ingest drugs to help incapacitate him,

and then he was laid on the floor

and suffocated to death.

Sandy.

I saw their faces. The jury's eating it up.

I want to go on the stand. I want to testify.

I want to tell them what happened.

No.

That's asking for trouble.

It so happens I agree. It's not worth the risk.

Well, I don't care.

I can't just sit there and not do anything

when people are saying all this garbage.

I know how hard it is,

just sitting there, feeling helpless.

But this is going to roll over us. All right?

Everything's going to be okay.

-You promise?

-I promise.

The defense wants you

to believe Ted Binion killed himself.

Well, coincidence of coincidences,

he killed himself the day

Sandy Murphy called the maid

and told her not to come in to work that day.

He killed himself the day before

someone emptied his safe

out of his antique coin collection,

the day before Rick Tabish tried to make off

with $7 million worth of Ted Binion's silver.

The defense also wants you to believe

that Rick was at work

the morning of September 17.

But consider this,

after months of Rick and Sandy

calling each other 20, 30 times a day,

on that day, there was not a single call

between them until late in the afternoon,

mere minutes before Sandy reported

finding Ted's body.

Now, why is that?

Why no communication most of the day?

Because they were together,

in Ted Binion's home.

Why was sandy's car parked

in the driveway,

where the gardener says she never parked,

instead of in the garage

where she always parked?

Because Rick's car

was hidden in the garage.

And inside,

Rick and Sandy were tying Ted to a chair

and forcing him to drink a deadly cocktail

of heroin and Xanax.

How do we know?

The cocktail was still in his stomach.

That was their plan,

make it look like an overdose.

They'd been planting that idea all over town.

Trust me, the way he uses,

he's going to OD.

He'll be dead in three weeks.

And when Ted didn't die fast enough,

one of them covered his mouth

and his nose with their hands,

while the other sat on his chest,

and they suffocated him.

Afterward,

Rick and Sandy drove to lunch.

We know they drove together

because Sandy left her purse in Rick's car,

didn't have her keys to get back

in the house later.

And why did they drive together?

Because Rick was already there.

He was in the house.

He was there to help his lover

kill her rich boyfriend,

so they could steal his silver.

And that is what the evidence shows,

beyond a reasonable doubt.

I heard your lawyer say that

the longer they deliberate,

the more likely it's an acquittal.

-You're kidding. When?

-4:
.30.

Well, then we'll have time to go

to Piero's afterward to celebrate.

Yeah.

How say you in the charge against

the defendant Richard Tabish

for felony larceny

in the attempted theft of the silver?

Guilty.

How say you in the charge against

the defendant Richard Tabish

for murder in the first degree?

Guilty.

How say you in the charge against

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