… Found two loaded guns, some marijuana, $38,000 in cash, and an ID for one Morris Black. ibid.
… Charged with murdering and dismembering his Galveston neighbour. ibid.
She [mother] died a violent death … a long long fall. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst II: Poor Little Rich Boy, Robert
I would just run away and go hide somewhere. ibid.
My father was not there as he should have been. ibid.
We were always one of the top five or six owners of property in Manhattan. ibid.
Vanishes! Search for beautiful wife of developer. ibid. New York Post front page
town dump bridge dig boat other shovel or? ibid. Robert’s note retrieved from rubbish
I made her get an abortion … I just didn’t want kids around … I knew I wasn’t going to be a good father. ibid. Robert
The snitch told cops Kathleen was killed in Westchester, leading State Police to take a fresh look at the old missing-persons case. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst III: The Gangster’s Daughter, newspaper article
Susan: Rich, Las Vegas, mobster father. ibid. Robert
Susan Berman was murdered around Christmas of 2000. ibid.
60-year-old Robert Durst sits in a Texas jail now charged with the gruesome death of his neighbour two years ago. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst IV: The State of Texas vs Robert Durst, television news
I was going out dressed as a mute woman. ibid. Robert
I went and bought a bowsaw and a bunch of garbage bags … and I dismembered the corpse. ibid.
I didn’t kill my best friend; I did dismember him. ibid.
How do you disprove self-defence? ibid. rozzer
Not guilty … 5 days of deliberation … Nobody tells the whole truth. ibid.
Utter disbelief. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst V: Family Values, Kevin Hynes former district attorney
Run For Your Lives. ibid. New York Post
And now you’re taking this big risk. You’re writing a note to the police that only the killer could have written. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst VI: What the Hell Did I Do? Robert’s note
Two people could misspell Beverley. ibid. Robert
I guess I’m searching for a way … how you didn’t write the ‘cadaver note’, they’re so similar. ibid.
Bob’s microphone continues to record while he is in the bathroom: ‘What the hell did I do? Killed them all of course.’ ibid.
Robert Durst, the real estate scion tied to several slayings explored in HBO’s series The Jinx, faced an old friend on Wednesday who testified in Los Angeles that before Durst’s wife disappeared in 1982 she told him she was afraid of her husband.
Nick Chavin, 72, a New York advertising executive, in an unusual arrangement testified with two police officers in the court serving as his protection detail.
Chavin’s identity was kept secret until he took the stand on Wednesday. Prosecutors have said he feared his life may be put in danger by testifying.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Windham has allowed Chavin and one other witness to testify on videotape in case either of them dies before Durst’s trial.
Durst, 73, is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a writer and longtime confidante of his, Susan Berman, in December 2000.
Berman was found slain execution-style in her Los Angeles home not long after police in New York had reopened an investigation into the disappearance and presumed killing of Durst’s spouse, Kathleen, two decades earlier.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles say they suspect Durst killed Berman, 55, because of what she knew about his wife’s unsolved demise in 1982.
Chavin testified he met Durst in New York around 1980 and the two soon became close friends, with Durst eventually serving as a best man at Chavin’s wedding. The two men shared a mutual friendship with Berman.
Chavin said he also knew Durst’s wife, Kathleen, and described the Dursts’ relationship as ‘strained’.
‘She said she was afraid of him. She never said he would hurt her but she was afraid of him,’ Chavin testified.
Chavin is scheduled to testify again on Thursday.
Durst has pleaded not guilty in Berman’s killing. He was questioned in the probe of his wife's disappearance but has not been charged, and her body has never been found.
Durst at Wednesday’s hearing walked haltingly into court wearing khaki pants and a light-blue collared shirt. He stopped briefly to look over the audience of reporters and spectators.
His ties to both cases, and his 2003 acquittal in the killing and dismemberment of a Texas neighbour, were chronicled in the popular multi-part HBO documentary The Jinx last year. The Independent article 16th February 2017 ‘Real estate tycoon Robert Durst confronted by friend’s surprise testimony at murder trial’
His trip from the penthouse to the big house is a saga which spans decades and criss-crosses the country with a trail of dead bodies. Robert Durst: An ID Murder Mystery I: Bobby’s Girls, news, DiscoveryPlus 2022
February 5th 1982: The man says he wants to report his wife [Kathie] missing. He says his name is Robert Durst. ibid. dude
Friends would say to her, He’s going to hurt you. She said, I can’t leave right now. When I finish medical school, then I’ll leave. ibid. friend
On the morning of Christmas Eve 2000 an emergency operator receives a call from Susan Berman’s [Durst’s best friend] neighbour … ‘They found Susan Berman dead with a single bullet to the back of her head.’ ibid. dude
Robert is now a person of interest in a missing person’s investigation and a murder case both of which have stalled. ibid.
Now he’s on the run and they can’t find him. ibid. dude
Morris Black’s mutilated body was found floating in Galveston Bay and evidence led police to his neighbour, Durst. ibid. news
Busted while trying to shoplift a $6 chicken salad sandwich. Robert Durst: An ID Murder Mystery II: Fade to Black, news
The court sets bail at one billion dollars. ibid. woman
We the jury find the defendant Robert Durst not guilty. ibid. Judge reads’
One of the most shocking verdicts ever. ibid. crime reporter
The Jinx filmmaker started turning in evidence on Durst. ibid.
Reports soon emerge linking Durst to three unsolved cases across the United States. ibid.
Multi-millionaire, serial killer, dog slayer, waste basket peer, pathelogical liar, emotional vampire. That’s Robert Durst. True Crime Recaps: Robert Durst, Youtube 29.28, 2022
Bob Durst was found guilty for the execution-like murder of his best friend, Susan Berman, in LA. He killed her to stop from telling police what she knew. ibid.
When he forget to turn off his microphone in the bathroom, The Jinx caught this accidental confession that ultimately led to Robert’s arrest. ibid.
At least 13 different family members have taken out restraining orders against him over the years. ibid.
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On February 5th 2002 a body is found buried in the vineyards that surround Stockton, California ... white male crouched in a foetal position. Crime Stories: Trail of Deceit
Elisa was Larry McNabney’s fifth wife ... Larry McNabney had a drug problem, a missing wife, four ex-wives, two with restraining orders against him, and a law practice which may have earned him dangerous enemies. ibid.
Sarah Dutra never made a full confession to her role in the murder of Larry McNabney; in March of 2003 she was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and accomplice to murder. ibid.
The woman accused of poisoning her Woodbridge boss a decade ago was released early Friday morning from the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.
Sarah Dutra, who served nearly her entire sentence, was convicted of poisoning attorney Larry McNabney on Sept 11th 2001. She and her alleged accomplice drove his body north and stashed it in a garage refrigerator in his Woodbridge home before ultimately burying it in a shallow grave.
His body was found in February 2002 in a vineyard near Linden.
Dutra was a 21-year-old art student at California State University, Sacramento, when she befriended Lauren Sims, the then-wife of McNabney, the boss at the firm where Dutra worked as a legal secretary. The women hatched a plot to poison McNabney with a horse tranquilizer and steal money from his law practice, according to prosecutors.
Sims, who had a long history of criminal activity and aliases, was also arrested but ultimately hung herself in jail. She left a three-page confession letter that implicated Dutra and left her to stand trial alone.