'Blade Runner' on Trial: Oscar Pistorius Case Consumes South Africa

In the wee hours of Valentine's Day 2013, Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee runner who skyrocketed to global fame just months prior at the London Olympics, shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead through a bathroom door inside his well-appointed home in Pretoria, South Africa

Bullets from Pistorius' gun hit Steenkamp in the hip, arm and skull. She died there in the bathroom of her boyfriend, the man whose high-tech prosthetics earned him the nickname "Blade Runner," made him a sporting hero of almost mythic proportions and helped him achieve the unlikely feat of competing in both an Olympics and Paralympics during the same year Read more...