… 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 s1e2: 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 s1e3: 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 s1e4: 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 s1e5: 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 s1e6: What the Hell Did I Do? Robert’s note
Two people could misspell Beverley [Beverley Hills]. 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.
Steve, it’s Bob. I was arrested in New Orleans this afternoon … The Jinx s2e1: Why Are You All Still Here? Netflix 2024
March 2015: We got evidence from the FBI that Robert Durst was on the run. ibid. rozzer
I’ve never seen or heard of a jurer forming a relationship with a defendant after trial. ibid. woman
We all knew you were going to flee at some point. ibid. rozzer to Robert
1133 Avenue of the Americas: With this sleek office building the Durst Organisation led the transformation of Avenue of the Americas into a business hub. The Jinx s2e2: Friendships Die Hard, promotional material
Preliminary hearings in the Robert Durst case began in 2017. The trial started in 2020 and concluded in 2021 after a Covid delay. The Jinx s2e3: Saving My Tears Until It's Official, captions
He was a lot smaller than I expected. A lot older too. ibid. juror
Whoever wrote that [cadaver] note had to be involved in Susan’s death. The Jinx s2e4: The Unluckiest Man in the World, Bob agrees with rozzer
Robert Durst failed a polygraph test. ibid. prosecution
Real Estate Scion Admits He Wrote Note in Case Profiled in The Jinx. ibid. The New York Times National headline January 1 2020
Robert Durst Expected to Testify. The Jinx s2e5: Mostly the Truth, Court TV news banner
Just about everything Bob Durst was saying on the stand was false. ibid. prosecution
Robert Durst is found guilty of murder. ibid. TV news
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