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What I heard was Morris
Black was not to be played with.
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That, when you're in a moment of fright and fear,
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it's called panic.
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They said, if a person is already dead
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and you get to chopping up the body,
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that's called tampering with evidence.
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And that's another case
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and another trial.
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Welcome to "Very Scary People."
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I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
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When Robert Durst's wife Kathie
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vanished without a trace,
her family suspected foul play,
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but there was no proof of a crime.
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No body was ever found.
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Eighteen years later, when prosecutors
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opened a new investigation into her case,
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Durst himself disappeared.
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He fled to Galveston, Texas,
and began a strange new life ...
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a new name, new story, a whole new identity.
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He was posing as a deaf-
mute woman named Dorothy Ciner,
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until a dead body was discovered
floating in the bay nearby
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and a trail of blood led right back to his door.
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It all seemed too bizarre,
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but Durst would explain everything in detail.
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Here's part 2 of "Robert Durst,"
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"Nobody Tells the Whole Truth."
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Good afternoon. In the news today,
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a reward of $100,000 offered by a husband
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to help find his missing wife.
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Robert Durst's wife Kathie Durst
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went missing in 1982.
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The wife, 29-year-old Kathleen Durst,
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a medical student at Albert Einstein College,
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disappeared from the
couple's Manhattan apartment.
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Once I heard she disappeared,
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I think I knew pretty fast
that something bad had happened.
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No body turned up.
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There's no crime scene, even.
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And the case just lost
all momentum after a while.
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Then, 18 years later,
there's this new investigation
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in the disappearance of Kathie Durst.
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Pirro: I have a lot of questions.
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It appears that things
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are not what they seemed to be in 1982.
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When he learns that there's a new investigation
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and he's going to come
under scrutiny, once again,
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Bob was in a panic.
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What he does is he goes down to Galveston
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and he rents an apartment.
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Posing as a middle-aged woman who was deaf
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and her name was Dorothy Ciner.
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He's basically on the run,
waiting to see what happens.
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And then, a few weeks later,
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Susan Berman is murdered
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in Los Angeles.
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Reporter: Susan Berman, an author
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and a close friend of Robert Durst.
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Birkbeck: She was the closest person
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to Bobby back in 1982.
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She knew everything that was going on.
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Bagli: Someone had addressed
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an envelope
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to "Beverley Hills Police,"
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and inside, on note paper, was the word "cadaver"
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and an address ... Susan's address.
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The supposition was that whoever sent that letter
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had seen the body and wanted
the body to be discovered.
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Then, in September 2001, another body turns up.
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Reporter: A teenage boy fishing
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in the shallow waters
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off Galveston, Texas,
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stumbled on the gruesome remains of a murder.
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Reporter #2: Galveston police are convinced
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58-year-old Robert Durst killed and dismembered
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his 71-year-old neighbor Morris Black.
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Who can chop up a body?
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I don't know how a surgeon does it,
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let alone a real-estate heir.
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Criss: Then, an arrest is made.
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They had a bond hearing where
they expected him to show up
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and, at some point, they realize he's not coming.
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Reporter: Today, Durst was due in court,
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but didn't show.
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This incredibly wealthy man is on the run.
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You're talking about a guy that's got
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millions of dollars at his disposal.
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Robert, if you see this
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or hear this, please come home.
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Now, he's a fugitive from the law
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and the question is, "Where is he?"
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Criss: I strongly believed
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that he is a danger to the community.
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He's a very, very dangerous man.
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After six weeks of being a fugitive,
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Robert Durst gets caught
in a small town in Pennsylvania
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after he was accused of shoplifting a sandwich.
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That's how he gets arrested
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and sent back to Galveston, Texas.
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Cooper: Jury selection got underway
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in Galveston, Texas, today.
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Robert Durst is on trial for murdering
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and then dismembering his neighbor.
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If he is found guilty of that murder,
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he will spend the rest of his life behind bars,
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which is a far cry from the
lifestyle that he was born into.
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He's a member of one of the wealthiest
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real-estate families in New York City.
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He's worth at least $500 million.
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The attorneys that represented him
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were some of the best in the country.
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Dick DeGuerin, Chip Lewis, and Mike Ramsey,
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they're the dream team
of criminal defense attorneys
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in this region of Texas.
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It was a dream team defense
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that cost Bob several million dollars.
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The prosecution had a really
good circumstantial case.
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We had a tremendous amount of physical evidence.
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Here we've got what we believe
to be the murder weapon.
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We had the blood trail between Morris Black's
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apartment and his.
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We also found a receipt
from a local hardware store
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that indicated a purchase for a bow saw
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and several garbage bags.
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These were all instruments that were used
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in the killing and dismembering
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and disposing of Morris Black.
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Going into this trial,
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everyone thought that the only way
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Robert Durst might have a chance
of getting out of this situation
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is if he pled that he was insane.
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How else do you explain the cutting up the body?
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I mean, how do you explain
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a person who could be so cold as to do that?
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He was swimming in the blood
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and then he cleaned up and
went back to the San Luis Hotel
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and had a Caesar salad.
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He also went to a local
Walmart, got a money order,
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to pay Morris Black's rent,
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so that the landlord would not come around,
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looking for the rent.
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This is a man who, by many
accounts, he was cross-dressing,
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he portrayed himself as mute woman.
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Certainly, you know, I guess
"eccentric," at the very least,
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would be the word to describe it.
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Lavandera: At first glance, when you look
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at what's going on here in Galveston,
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you think, "Oh, Robert Durst isn't all there.
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Like there must be something
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But then, little things start popping up,
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here and there, that make you question,
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"Is there something else going on here?"
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He started going around, setting up safe houses,
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like he did in Galveston.
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He also did the same thing
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in New Orleans,
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dressed up as a mute female.
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Durst had also cemented
a very crucial relationship
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before he went on the run,
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with the very person who had wired him
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the $300,000 that he needed to make bail.
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That's when we learned about Debrah Charatan,
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his secret wife.
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She's another influential
person in real estate in New York.
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Their romantic relationship had lasted
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only a couple of years,
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but she was still a confidant of his
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and, when Bob learned of this new investigation
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into Kathie's disappearance,
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authorities believe he immediately takes action
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and marries his long-time
friend Debrah Lee Charatan.
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Nobody had known that they got married.
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It was clearly a business deal,
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Bagli: He gives her power of attorney
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over his financial accounts.
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Lavandera: When Robert Durst
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returns to Texas,
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they revoke the bail.
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"You ran on us on the first one.
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You're not getting another shot."
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The odds seemed completely stacked against them.
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There's no winning defense in a crime like this,
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unless you have a winning defense attorney,
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like Dick DeGuerin.
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Criss: Mr. DeGuerin,
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are you ready?
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Yes, Your Honor.
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Criss: The State of Texas
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v. Robert Durst.
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In the district court of Galveston County, Texas,
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the defendant, Robert Durst,
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stands charged by indictment
with the offense of murder.
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Robert Durst's defense,
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led by defense attorney Dick DeGuerin,
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surprises everyone.
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The defense that DeGuerin presented
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was quite an audacious one, which was,
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"Yes, my client did it.
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We're not arguing that.
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But he did it out of self-defense."
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Reporter: Robert Durst says Morris Black
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was accidentally killed in self-defense
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while both men struggled for a gun.
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Well, if the defense is self-defense,
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you almost have to put him on the stand.
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Only two people know what happened.
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One is now deceased.
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The other one is Mr. Durst.
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Cooper: It's got to be
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a risky strategy,
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putting this man on the stand.
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Do they even know what he's gonna say?
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They're going to prep him very well,
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but it is definitely a high-risk strategy.
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Lavandera: Dick DeGuerin lives
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by this philosophy where
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you embrace the negative.
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Don't deny what you can't deny.
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DeGuerin has this phrase
that he teaches law students ...
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"You kiss the ugly baby."
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You have to take whatever your
horrible thing in your case is,
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and you kiss that ugly baby.
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They quickly figured out
that Robert Durst can't deny
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that he killed Morris Black,
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so you have to admit what you did.
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And you take away the prosecutor's
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sharpest knife in their toolbox.
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There was a mountain of evidence
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showing that Robert Durst was guilty of killing,
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but that doesn't mean he was guilty of murder.
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Before Robert Durst took the stand,
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his defense attorneys tried to prepare the jury
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for some of his quirks.
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They told us, as a child,
he suffered with Asperger's.
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Defense attorneys say Durst suffers
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from a mild form of autism,
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which, they say, explains
why Durst acted the way he did.
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When I watched him walk from the table
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to that box to sit in,
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he looked frail and he got up there
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and he was real [Hushed] soft-spoken.
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And he said he didn't want to be Bob anymore.
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This kind of ends up playing
into this whole idea of,
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you know, of him having to explain
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why this multimillionaire is living
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on a Texas island, dressed as a woman.
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By his own admission,
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Robert Durst came to Galveston with a secret,
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that he wanted to change identities.
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Morris Black was Robert
Durst's next-door neighbor,
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who distinguished himself in Galveston
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as being a complete and utter crank.
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The defense said that they
immediately became fast friends.
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??
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And, eventually, they become friendly enough
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where Robert Durst drops the
disguise of being Dorothy Ciner.
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Morris Black was the only one
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who knew Robert Durst as Robert Durst.
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??
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They were both estranged from their family,
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were lone wolves, and they
were also incredibly cheap.
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Bagli: Bob says he gave him a key
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to his apartment.
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Bob had a television.
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He welcomed Morris in to watch television.
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??
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But what I heard in this case ...
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Morris Black was not to be played with.
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??
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Bob had a pistol,
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which he kept in the oven.
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Warren: They presented it more like
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Morris was more interested in Durst's weapon.
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You know, like he had a fantasy with his weapon.
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??
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Bagli: But, at a certain point,
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Bob says,
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he took the key away from Morris Black.
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??
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He comes home one evening and finds Morris there,
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holding his gun, according to Bob.
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??
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They tussled,
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but it was like a self-defense tussle.
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??
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And, as they fell to the ground...
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[Gunshot] ...the gun goes off,
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killing Morris Black.
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??
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According to Durst, Morris was shot in the face.
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Bob says he's freaking out because he knows
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that there's now a new investigation
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into Kathie's disappearance.
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The way he told the story,
he didn't believe anybody
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was going to believe him,
that it was self-defense,
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so he had to make this calculated decision
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to hide this body.
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So, in a fugue-like state,
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he went over to Chalmers hardware store
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and got what everybody else would get, right?
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A bow saw.
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??
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Criss: According to him,
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in order to cut the body up,
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he had to get drunk and smoke a lot of pot.
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??
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Bagli: I've never heard
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anybody describe,
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in such bloody detail,
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something that they did that was so horrific.
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??
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Bob's defense team hammered away with the jury
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that they had to separate
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the act of how Morris Black died
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from the cutting up of the body.
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This case is not about what Bob Durst did
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after Morris Black died.
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The sole issue for you
ladies and gentlemen to decide
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is how Morris Black died.
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They said that, if a person is already dead
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and you get to chopping up the body,
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that's called tampering with evidence
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and that's another case, and another trial.
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Reporter: Prosecutors say Durst
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very calmly planned
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to get away with murder,
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wrapping body parts in trash
bags and inside suitcases,
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even using his money
to pay for the victim's rent.
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They say Durst's actions after the shooting
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prove his guilt.
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But they didn't come up with a good story to tell
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about why the murder occurred.
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They're saying that Durst shot Morris Black
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dead-center in the back of his head,
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but you can't say that
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'cause you don't have the head!
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??
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What you had is Mr. Durst taking the stand
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and telling a story that
basically couldn't be disproved.
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It's like proving the negative,
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and the prosecutor had a hard time doing that.
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DeGuerin: Reasonable doubt.
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??
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It means a doubt based
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on reason and common sense.
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??
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Mr. Foreman, I understand you have a verdict?
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??
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"We, the jury, find the defendant,
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Robert Durst,
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not guilty."
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[Camera shutters clicking continuously]
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??
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I don't think he believed, for a minute,
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that he was gonna be found not guilty.
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McCormack: Not guilty?
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He cut a guy in pieces
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and went and hid the evidence.
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Not guilty?
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We did the best with what we had
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and, whether it agree to you all
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or to anyone else out there in America,
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this is what we came up with.
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??
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We begin with a courtroom shocker.
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A man who admitted
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that he killed his neighbor
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and chopped up his body
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is found not guilty of murder by a Texas jury.
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After Robert Durst was acquitted
of murdering Morris Black,
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he pleads guilty to some lesser charges ...
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tampering with evidence,
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for dismembering Morris Black's body;
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jumping bail;
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and then, federal Weapons charges.
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Within two and a half years,
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Robert Durst is back out on the streets.
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??
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By then, New York filmmaker
Andrew Jarecki was inspired
398
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to make a feature film
based on Robert Durst's life.
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By late 2010,
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"All Good Things" is coming out.
401
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All Good Things was the
name of the health food store
402
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that Robert and Kathie
Durst were running in Vermont
403
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in the early 1970s.
404
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??
405
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We thought carefully about trying to make it
406
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as accurate as possible and
I remember saying to my partner,
407
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when we were writing that movie,
"I would like to make a movie
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that the real Bob Durst could see
409
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and have an emotional reaction to."
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And Bob says
411
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that he loved the movie.
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I wrote a story in The Times,
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how much he liked the movie,
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despite the fact that
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it implicated him in three murders.
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But, it also made his family look horrible,
417
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and he reveled in that.
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Based on Durst's very positive response
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to "All Good Things,"
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he contacts the director and suggests
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that Jarecki should interview him
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for a documentary about his life.
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They did two massive interviews,
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one at the end of 2010, and then again in 2012.
425
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Why in the world would he agree
to do an interview, on-camera?
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He had never talked before,
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so he wanted to tell his
story as he had it in his head.
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I believe Bob sat down to do "The Jinx"
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because he believed that he was infallible.
430
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??
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In February of 2015,
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the six-part docuseries
"The Jinx" premieres on HBO,
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which is owned by HLN's
parent company, WarnerMedia.
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For the first time, Durst makes
revealing statements on-camera,
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like this one, about his
trial testimony in Galveston.
436
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You know, it's a question
of not, "What do I say,"
437
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but, "How do I say it?"
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I never intentionally, purposefully, lied.
439
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I made mistakes.
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Did not tell the whole truth.
441
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Nobody tells the whole truth.
442
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Bob admits a lot of things on "The Jinx."
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I was talking to him after every episode.
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By the fifth episode, when I called him,
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he was very agitated.
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Reporter: In "The Jinx,"
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a new, stunning revelation
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by the stepson of Susan Berman,
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killed execution-style in her Beverly Hills home.
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In a storage box, the
stepson comes across a letter
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Durst sent to Berman shortly before she died.
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Durst's handwriting,
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the killer's note to police,
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they bear remarkable similarities,
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down to the misspelling of "Beverly."
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It was sent on December 23rd,
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the same day that Susan was killed.
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Inside, on note paper,
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was the word "cadaver"
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and an address ... Susan's address.
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Oh, God, the "B" is exactly the same.
462
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??
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Son of a bitch.
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Whoever wrote that letter knew
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that Susan Berman was dead.
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Then, in the sixth and final episode,
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Andrew Jarecki shows Durst
the letter, and confronts him.
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So you wrote one of these, but you didn't write
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the other one?
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I wrote this one.
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I did not write the cadaver one.
472
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And can you tell me which one you didn't write?
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No.
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Reporter: When confronted,
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Durst becomes nervous,
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even burping uncomfortably on camera.
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I would con...clude they were both written
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by the same person.
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Then, the interview comes to an end
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and Bob asks to go to the bathroom.
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Reporter: Visibly rattled, Durst stepped
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away to the bathroom,
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his microphone still live.
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[Moaning]
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I just had no idea that, that last five minutes,
486
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we would see something like that.
487
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I stood up and gasped.
488
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I shed a couple of tears
489
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because it was a final
closure on your worst fears.
490
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And I thought to myself, "Oh, my God.
491
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He's gonna run."
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??
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??
494
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Welcome back to "Very Scary People."
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When Robert Durst reached
out to documentary producers
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and offered to tell the truth
about his controversial life,
497
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his goal was to set the record straight,
498
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to create a positive impression.
499
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He was confident he could control the narrative
500
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until a confrontation about the handwriting
501
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on the Susan Berman letter.
502
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Then he went on the run again.
503
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Jordan: The day before HBO broadcast
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that final episode of "The Jinx,"
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a warrant had been issued for his arrest
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in the murder of Susan Berman,
507
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but nobody could find him.
508
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LAPD at this point knows
he's left his home in Houston
509
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with five bags, and he's going somewhere.
510
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The FBI is looking at his whereabouts,
511
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and they see that he gets into a car
512
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and he starts driving east.
513
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And then he turns off his
phone, and so they can't track him.
514
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What he did was go to New Orleans.
515
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He's checked into the
Marriott under an assumed name.
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It was that day or the next day...
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Bob turns on his phone.
518
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Big mistake.
519
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'Cause now they know where he is.
520
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So, that Saturday afternoon,
two FBI agents go the Marriott,
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and they ask for the manager,
522
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and they say, "Do you have Bob Durst here?"
523
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"No, nobody by the name of Bob Durst."
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They said, "Well, how about...?"
525
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And they go through 10 aliases.
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"No."
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So, they're standing around
in the lobby, and they turn in,
528
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and who comes walking through the revolving door
529
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but a guy that looks a
hell of a lot like Bob Durst.
530
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So they pull him aside, and
they said, "Are you Bob Durst?"
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Reporter: Breaking news tonight ...
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00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,820
multimillionaire Robert
Durst arrested in connection
533
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,999
with the execution-style killing
534
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,999
of his long-time friend Susan Berman.
535
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He's going to jail.
536
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,999
There he is in the backseat
of the car, smiling, looking happy.
537
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Woman: His facial expressions
are often inappropriate.
538
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But this man has been
Teflon-coated his entire life.
539
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,999
Nothing bad sticks to Robert Durst.
540
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,999
When did you find out about
the statement in the bathroom?
541
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:38,999
When I saw it on television,
542
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,999
like most everybody else in the country.
543
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,280
And if that's the strength of their case, man,
544
00:25:44,281 --> 00:25:45,999
I could be ready tomorrow.
545
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,999
We want to contest the basis for his arrest
546
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,999
because I think it's not based on facts ...
547
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,999
it's based on ratings.
548
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,999
FBI find cash, a Smith & Wesson,
and five ounces of marijuana.
549
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,999
That is a lot of marijuana
for any one individual to smoke.
550
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,999
They find $117,000 in cash.
551
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,999
He also had maps with Florida, the U.
S., and Cuba.
552
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,999
This is a guy who was clearly
plotting and planning something.
553
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,999
They found a mask that would
cover your face, over your neck,
554
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,050
up to your chest area.
555
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,999
It was creepy-looking.
556
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,999
??
557
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,940
Man: This morning, New York
real-estate heir Robert Durst
558
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,999
remains behind bars in New Orleans.
559
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,999
Bagli: John Lewin, the prosecutor,
560
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,999
he had gotten on a plane
561
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,999
the minute he heard they had him in custody.
562
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,999
And he lands very early in New Orleans
563
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,999
and goes straight to the jailhouse
564
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,000
and asks if Bob is willing
to talk to him, which he was.
565
00:26:49,001 --> 00:26:50,999
-Do you want to sit here? -Yes.
566
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,999
We'll give him the softest seat.
567
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,999
And they start talking for almost three hours.
568
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,000
Without Durst's lawyer present.
569
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,999
Bagli: It was a brilliant interview
570
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,999
because the prosecutor had a checklist
571
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,999
of what he wanted to ask
Bob and get a response to,
572
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,000
like the so-called "cadaver note."
573
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,999
Lewin explains his theories
574
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000
of the crimes he believes Durst has committed.
575
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,999
In the case of Morris Black,
576
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,999
Lewin theorizes that Black
was the one person in Galveston
577
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,999
who knew the true identity of Robert Durst
578
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
and may have threatened to expose him.
579
00:28:55,081 --> 00:28:57,999
Bagli: By the end of the conversation,
580
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,999
they start dancing around, very obliquely,
581
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,000
about, you know, a plea agreement.
582
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000
Okay.
583
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000
Lewin is telling him, basically, "We gotcha."
584
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,999
It looks as if he wants to tell his story.
585
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,999
The defense view of Robert Durst
586
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,999
playing that game of cat-and-mouse
587
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:02,000
is that Robert Durst was playing
the prosecutor at that time.
588
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,999
Criss: I do think that
589
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,999
the prosecutor in Los Angeles has got his number.
590
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,999
I think he understands Bob better
591
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,999
than anybody who's dealt with him.
592
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:14,999
He's researched this case.
593
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:20,000
He knows everything you could possibly know.
594
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,000
??
595
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,999
DeGuerin: Bob Durst did not kill Susan Berman,
596
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,999
and he doesn't know who
did, and he wants to prove it.
597
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,999
Woman: How strong is the case against him?
598
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:58,999
Man: Completely out of whack.
599
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,999
I mean, 20 hours of footage!
600
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,999
20 hours of interviews that this guy gave
601
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,999
without his lawyer present,
without anybody present
602
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,999
to keep his mouth shut to HBO.
603
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,999
That's going to be used against him.
604
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Bagli: The fundamental problem for the defense
605
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,999
is that their client talked
and talked and talked again.
606
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
He did the very thing that
607
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,999
his lawyers and his friends warned him against.
608
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,999
Don't poke a stick in the beehive.
609
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,999
Woman: Durst's attorney says he needs
610
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,999
to be in a hospital instead of jail
611
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,999
because of several medical conditions,
612
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,999
one of which was definitely obvious here.
613
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:40,999
You can see it right about here.
614
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,999
It's a shunt bulging from
the side of his shaven head,
615
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000
implanted during surgery to treat hydrocephalus.
616
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:56,000
I do want to say here and
now, though, I am not guilty.
617
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,999
I did not kill Susan Berman.
618
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,999
As it stands today, Bob
is charged with one murder,
619
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
the murder of Susan Berman.
620
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,999
But the theory of the prosecution's case
621
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,999
is that Bob executed Susan because he was afraid
622
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,999
that she would reveal to the authorities
623
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,999
her role in the disappearance of Kathie Durst.
624
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,999
That man kills witnesses.
625
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,999
That's what he does.
626
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,500
That's what he did in this case.
627
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,800
That's what he did with Morris Black.
628
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,999
Mr. Durst, when pushed into a corner,
629
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,999
he murders people.
630
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,999
Chesnoff: They have an idea that somehow
631
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,999
they're gonna try three murder cases,
632
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:42,999
one of which
633
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:43,999
he's previously been acquitted of,
634
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,999
the other he's never been charged in,
635
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,999
and this case.
636
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,999
DeGuerin: The first presumption that they have
637
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,999
is that, first,
638
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:53,999
Kathie Durst is dead.
639
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,999
There's no evidence that she is.
640
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,999
But second ... that Bob Durst
641
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,999
had anything to do with her disappearance.
642
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,999
There's no evidence.
643
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:03,999
There never has been.
644
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,999
There isn't anything new.
645
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,980
Birkbeck: It's a circumstantial case,
646
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,999
so John Lewin has a very
difficult task ahead of him,
647
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,999
especially given the defense
team that Durst has assembled,
648
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,999
which is pretty much
the same defense team he used
649
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:18,999
in the Morris Black trial.
650
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,999
That man beat a murder in Galveston.
651
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:23,999
Beat a murder!
652
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,999
He murdered that man, and he got away with it.
653
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,999
He's not gonna get away a second time.
654
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,999
Birkbeck: This is not a slam dunk by any means.
655
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,999
This is gonna be something to watch.
656
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:35,999
Do not underestimate Robert Durst
657
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
or his defense team.
658
00:33:38,681 --> 00:33:40,999
Man: We're back in session.
659
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,999
People versus Robert Durst.
660
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,999
Jordan: As early as 2017, Deputy D.A. John Lewin
661
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,999
began calling conditional witnesses.
662
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,999
These are people that
he wanted to get on the record
663
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,999
before the trial began.
664
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,999
Bagli: The Deputy District Attorney
665
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,999
dug up a dozen people
666
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,999
who Susan told some fragment of the story.
667
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
And when you put them all together,
668
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:13,999
they are a mosaic that tells
a bit about what Susan knew.
669
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,999
Lynda Obst ... she had been
interviewed for "The Jinx,"
670
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,999
but she didn't talk about
this piece of information,
671
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,999
and she testified that Susan had told her
672
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,999
that she helped Bob
673
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,999
with covering up how Kathie disappeared.
674
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,999
Lynda testified that Susan admitted
675
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,999
that she had called Kathie's medical school
676
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,999
and pretended to be Kathie.
677
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,999
You're seeing people come forward now
678
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,999
who have protected him in the past.
679
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:44,999
??
680
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,999
One of the people
681
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,999
who had not spoken to law enforcement until then
682
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,999
was a mutual friend of
Susan Berman and Robert Durst
683
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,999
named Nick Chavin.
684
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,999
Bagli: The prosecutor in Los Angeles
685
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,999
spent seven months trying to get Nick to talk,
686
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,999
and Nick, as he put it,
687
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:09,999
is weighing his loyalty to his two best friends,
688
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,999
Susan on the one hand and Bob on the other.
689
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,999
And, ultimately, he decided to cooperate.
690
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,999
He became the big mystery witness
691
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,999
at the first big hearing in Los Angeles.
692
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,999
Jordan: Chavin gave testimony
693
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,999
about an encounter he had with Robert Durst
694
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,999
in New York in 2014.
695
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,999
[Telephone rings]
696
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,999
Bagli: Nick gets a call, and Bob says,
697
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,999
"I wanna talk to you about Susie."
698
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:46,999
So they have dinner, they
get outside, and Nick says to him,
699
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,999
"Bob, you wanted to talk about Susie?" ...
700
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,999
this person that was near
and dear to both of them ...
701
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,999
and he's looking down at the ground,
702
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,999
and he says, "I had no choice.
703
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:02,999
It was her or me."
704
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:12,000
??
705
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,999
??
706
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:16,999
Man: I want to thank all of you.
707
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,999
This has been a really long process.
708
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,999
Man #2: Prosecution's making their case right now
709
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,999
in a Los Angeles courtroom.
710
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,999
More than 150 witnesses
could be called to the stand.
711
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,999
After decades of suspicion,
712
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,999
Robert Durst's long-awaited murder trial
713
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,260
is about to finally begin.
714
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,999
Paul Vercammen is on this story from Los Angeles.
715
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,999
The first time we caught a glimpse of Durst,
716
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,999
he was stooped over,
717
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,999
and he must not weigh much more than 120 pounds.
718
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,999
Bob has come to look like a very old man
719
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:48,999
and somewhat feeble.
720
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,000
He moves very slowly and
with a great amount of effort.
721
00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:56,999
Man: Durst will hear the opening statements
722
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,999
from the Grim Reaper of cold-case defendants.
723
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000
John Lewin has had a lot of success
724
00:37:02,001 --> 00:37:03,999
prosecuting cold cases,
725
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,000
especially under circumstantial evidence.
726
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,999
What the evidence will show
727
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,999
is that Bob Durst killed Kathie Durst
728
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,999
in the midst of a nasty divorce,
729
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,999
that he killed Susan Berman because he was afraid
730
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,999
that Susan Berman was
going to reveal what he knew.
731
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,999
Lewin also put this out there .
.. that although loyal,
732
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Susan Berman was not the best at keeping secrets.
733
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,999
And when Susan Berman
told him that, "You know what?
734
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,999
I'm gonna talk to investigators,"
735
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:40,999
that she sealed her fate.
736
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,999
Vercammen: And then John Lewin
brings it up, that cadaver note,
737
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000
that note that points
police to Susan Berman's body.
738
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,999
You're writing a note to the police
739
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,999
that only the killer could have written.
740
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,999
And then, they're getting ready to pick a jury,
741
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,999
and then, all of a sudden, boom!
742
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,999
Man: Durst's lawyers
now admit that he was the one
743
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,999
who wrote the note and mailed it.
744
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,999
After many years of adamantly
and repeatedly denying
745
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,999
that he wrote the cadaver note,
746
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:18,999
three months ago,
747
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,999
Durst stipulated that he wrote the cadaver note.
748
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,999
So many had wondered for months, how in the world
749
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,999
will the defense explain that cadaver note?
750
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,999
They actually admit to the jury
751
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,999
that Robert Durst found her body.
752
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,999
When Bob showed up and
found her dead, he panicked.
753
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,999
He wrote the anonymous letter
so her body would be found,
754
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:48,999
and he ran.
755
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,999
Man: Durst's lawyers' mantra is
756
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,560
a lack of evidence is evidence,
757
00:38:52,561 --> 00:38:53,999
in this case, of his innocence.
758
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,999
There is no forensic evidence whatsoever
759
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,999
linking Bob to Mrs. Durst's disappearance
760
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,999
or, more importantly, Ms. Berman's murder.
761
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,999
No evidence of fingerprints in the house,
762
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,999
blood, DNA, ballistics.
763
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,999
Two houses, no forensic evidence.
764
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,999
Vercammen: And on that
call where the prosecution says
765
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,999
Susan Berman posed as Kathie Durst,
766
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:18,999
the defense has basically said
767
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,999
this call from Susan Berman never happened.
768
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000
And then "The Jinx."
769
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,999
"The Jinx" will definitely be center stage,
770
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,999
but the defense said this is heavily edited,
771
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,999
it is deceiving and deliberately misleading.
772
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,999
DeGuerin: We're gonna see the unedited parts.
773
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,999
And I think the evidence will show you
774
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,999
that the editing changed a lot of it.
775
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,999
I call it "gotcha journalism."
776
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:58,999
??
777
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,999
Bagli: I think this is
gonna be a final reckoning.
778
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,999
And the defense ... one thing
that they have on their side
779
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,999
is all they have to do is convince one juror
780
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,999
that the prosecution hasn't proven what happened.
781
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:20,999
??
782
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,999
??
783
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,999
This trial is not simply
about the murder of Susan Berman.
784
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:36,999
This trial covers three deaths
over a span of almost 40 years.
785
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,999
And it's about justice.
786
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,999
McCormack: I'll be watching
this trial very closely.
787
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,999
I don't think I get up and not think of Kathie
788
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,999
on any given day ...
probably several times a day.
789
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,999
Mayer: A lot of people
have suffered over the years,
790
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,999
not knowing what happened to Kathie.
791
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,999
She had a lot of people
who loved her, including myself.
792
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,999
I think it would give a lot of people
793
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:08,999
at least some peace of mind to know the truth.
794
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,999
Draper: It just may simply be
795
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,999
Robert Durst will be the custodian
796
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,999
of all these secrets
797
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,999
and that those secrets will
remain locked up inside of him.
798
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:21,999
You know, things stay hidden,
799
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but they don't stay hidden forever.
800
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:30,999
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801
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:37,999
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802
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,999
When Robert Durst entered the courtroom
803
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,999
for the Susan Berman trial, people gasped.
804
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,999
He looked weak and frail,
his voice barely audible.
805
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,999
His attorneys confirmed his poor health,
806
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and many wondered if he would live long enough
807
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to hear the verdict.
808
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In spite of any evidence against him,
809
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,999
Durst always insisted he did
not kill his best friend, Susan.
810
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,999
Will the jury believe him?
811
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I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
812
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000
Thanks for watching. Good night.
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