Robert Durst
On the 30th of November 2001, Robert Durst was caught inside a Wegmans supermarket in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was trying to steal Band-Aids, a newspaper and a chicken salad sandwich. In his pocket he had $500 in cash.
Durst, an American real estate heir who lived from 1943 to 2022, was no ordinary shoplifter. For much of his adult life, investigators and the public linked his name to three cases. One was a vanished wife, one was a murdered friend and one was a dead neighbor.
Why would a man with money in his pocket steal a sandwich? How could a jury acquit him of one killing, yet convict him of another nearly two decades later? And what part did a television documentary play in finally bringing him down?
Joseph Durst, a Jewish tailor from Austria-Hungary, arrived in the United States in 1902. He became a real estate manager and developer, and in 1927 he founded the Durst Organization. His grandson, Robert Alan Durst, was born in New York City on the 12th of April 1943 and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Robert was the eldest son of the real estate magnate Seymour Durst and Bernice Herstein. He had three younger siblings named Douglas, Tommy and Wendy.
When Robert was seven, his mother died by suicide, jumping from the roof of the family's Scarsdale home. Durst later claimed that he saw it happen. He said his father walked him to a window moments earlier, where he could see her standing on the roof. In a March 2015 interview with The New York Times, his brother Douglas denied that Robert had witnessed the death. The two boys had been sent to counseling for sibling rivalry. A psychiatrist's report from 1953, when Durst was ten, mentioned "personality decomposition and possibly even schizophrenia."
Classmates at Scarsdale High School remembered Durst as a loner. At Lehigh University he played varsity lacrosse and served as business manager of the student newspaper, The Brown and White. He graduated in 1965 with an economics degree. That same year he enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he met Susan Berman. He eventually withdrew and returned to New York in 1969.
In the early 1970s Durst opened a small health-food store in Vermont. His father persuaded him to close it in 1973 and come to work at the Durst Organization. By 1992, Durst's erratic conduct had pushed Seymour to break with tradition. He named his second son, Douglas, to run the company instead. Robert, the firstborn, felt the job was his by right, even though he disdained the business. He accused Douglas of stealing what was owed him, and the feud estranged him from the rest of his family. He responded by suing for his share of the fortune, and that fight would run for years.
Kathleen McCormack, a dental hygienist, met Durst in late 1971. After two dates he invited her to live in his Vermont home, and she moved in during January 1972. When his father pressed him to return to New York, the couple relocated to Manhattan. They married on the 12th of April 1972, which was Durst's twenty-ninth birthday.
By 1982, McCormack was in her fourth and final year at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She hoped to become a pediatrician and was only a few months short of her degree.
On the evening of the 31st of January 1982, McCormack appeared unexpectedly at a dinner party in Newtown, Connecticut. Her friend Gilberte Najamy was the host. Najamy noticed that McCormack seemed upset. McCormack was also wearing red sweatpants, which struck Najamy as odd, since her friend never dressed so casually in public. After a phone call from her husband, McCormack left for her cottage in South Salem, New York. That was the last time anyone but Durst indisputably saw her.
The couple had fought that night. Even so, Durst first told police that he had put his wife on a commuter train at Katonah station and then had a drink with a neighbor. He added that he later spoke with her by phone at their Manhattan apartment. "That's what I told police," he later said. "I was hoping that would just make everything go away." He eventually admitted that he had simply gone home and gone to bed.
Najamy and McCormack were due to meet the next day at The Lion's Gate, a Manhattan pub. When McCormack never showed, Najamy called police repeatedly over several days. Later that week, Durst reported his wife missing. The doorman and the building superintendent at the couple's Riverside Drive apartment both said they had seen McCormack there on the 1st of February. But the doorman admitted he had seen her only from behind and from half a block away. A private investigator hired by Durst's lawyer later reported that the doorman said he had not seen her arrive at all. Three weeks after the report, the superintendent found some of her belongings in the building's trash compactor.
Three weeks before she vanished, McCormack had been treated for facial bruises at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. She told a friend that Durst had beaten her, but she pressed no charges. She had asked him for a $250,000 divorce settlement. Instead, he cancelled her credit card, removed her name from a joint bank account and refused to pay her medical school tuition.
Durst had also been dating Prudence, the younger sister of Mia Farrow, for three years, and he lived in a separate apartment. He first offered a $100,000 reward for his wife's return, then cut it to $15,000. When a friend of McCormack's and her sister learned she was missing, they broke into her South Salem cottage. They found it ransacked, her mail unopened and her belongings in the trash.
Durst divorced McCormack eight years after her disappearance, citing spousal abandonment. In 2016 her family asked a court to declare her legally dead, and the request was granted the following year. Her younger sister, Mary McCormack Hughes, believes that Durst murdered her. Long before that ruling, though, the New York State Police had quietly reopened the case in 1999 and searched the South Salem cottage for the first time. The investigation became public in November 2000, a few weeks before a friend of Durst's was found dead in Los Angeles.
Susan Berman was the daughter of David Berman, a major Jewish-American organized crime figure. He dominated illegal gambling in Depression-era Minneapolis, and he later took over the Flamingo Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Susan was a longtime friend of Durst, and she had helped supply his public alibi after McCormack disappeared.
On the 24th of December 2000, neighbors called police to report that Berman's door was open and one of her dogs was loose. She was found murdered, execution-style, in her home in the Benedict Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Several days later, a letter addressed to the Beverly Hills Police Department arrived, postmarked the 23rd of December. It contained Berman's address and a single word, "cadaver." On the envelope, "Beverly" was misspelled as "Beverley."
Durst is known to have been in Northern California days before the killing. He flew from San Francisco to New York the night before her body was found. Berman had recently received $50,000 from him in two payments. Durst confirmed to the Los Angeles Police Department that he had sent her $25,000, and he faxed investigators a copy of her 1982 deposition about his missing wife. He declined to answer further questions about the murder.
In a 2005 deposition, Durst claimed that Berman phoned him shortly before her death. He said she told him the police wanted to interview her about McCormack's disappearance. A study of case notes by The Guardian cast doubt on whether the Los Angeles police ever made such a call. It also questioned whether then-Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro had scheduled an interview with Berman at all.
The Berman biographer Cathy Scott has asserted that Durst killed Berman because she held incriminating knowledge about his wife's disappearance. After his sister Wendy tipped him off that the McCormack investigation had been reopened, Durst went into hiding. He moved to Galveston, Texas, disguised as a mute woman to avoid police inquiries. In Galveston, he would soon have a neighbor named Morris Black.
On the 9th of October 2001, Durst was arrested in Galveston. Shortly before, dismembered body parts of his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, had been found floating in Galveston Bay. Durst was released on $250,000 bail, then missed a court hearing on the 16th of October. A warrant followed on a charge of bail jumping.
He stayed on the run until the end of November. When he was finally caught in Pennsylvania, his rental car held $37,000 in cash, two guns and some marijuana. It also held Black's driver's license and directions to Gilberte Najamy's home in Connecticut. While a fugitive, Durst had also stalked his brother Douglas, visiting the driveway of Douglas's home in Katonah, New York, while armed. Held on charges in Pennsylvania, he was represented by defense attorney John Waldron, and he was eventually extradited to Texas for trial.
In 2003, prosecutors in the Black case put only a capital murder charge before the jury, with no lesser murder or manslaughter charges. Durst hired the defense attorney Dick DeGuerin and claimed self-defense. DeGuerin ran two mock trials to prepare.
The defense team found it hard to communicate with Durst, so they hired the psychiatrist Milton Altschuler. After seventy hours of examination, Altschuler diagnosed Durst with Asperger syndrome. "His whole life's history is so compatible with a diagnosis of Asperger's disorder," he said. The team argued at trial that the diagnosis explained Durst's behavior.
Durst claimed that Black grabbed Durst's .22 caliber target pistol from its hiding place and threatened him with it. During the struggle, the gun went off and shot Black in the face. Under cross-examination, Durst admitted using a paring knife, two saws and an axe to dismember the body. He then bagged the remains and dumped them in the bay. Black's head was never recovered. Without it, prosecutors lacked the forensic evidence to dispute Durst's account of the struggle. The jury acquitted him of murder on the 11th of November 2003.
On the 21st of December 2004, Durst pleaded guilty to two counts of bail jumping and one count of evidence tampering, which covered the dismemberment. Under a plea bargain he received a five-year sentence with credit for time served, which meant three years in prison. He was paroled on the 15th of July 2005.
His parole rules required him to stay near home. In December 2005 he made an unauthorized trip to the boarding house where Black was killed and to a nearby shopping mall. There he ran into Susan Criss, the former Galveston judge who had presided over his trial. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles ruled that he had violated his parole and returned him to jail. He was released again on the 1st of March 2006.
Asked in March 2015 whether she believed Durst murdered Black, Criss described the cutting of the body as precise, like the work of a surgeon who knew which tool to use on bone and which on muscle. "It looked like not a first-time job. That was pretty scary." The private investigator Bobbi Bacha argues that Black had known Durst years earlier and was likely involved in McCormack's disappearance in 1982.
The 2010 film All Good Things took its title from the Vermont health-food store that Durst and McCormack set up in the 1970s. Ryan Gosling played David Marks, the character based on Durst, and Kirsten Dunst played his wife, Kathie. Soon after the theatrical release, Durst contacted the director Andrew Jarecki to say he approved of the film. Their conversations grew into material included on the DVD release. Eventually they became the 2015 HBO miniseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Jarecki co-wrote, co-produced and directed it, and he appeared in it.
While the series was being filmed, Berman's stepson uncovered a 1999 letter written by Durst. It contained the same "Beverley Hills" misspelling as the anonymous letter that had pointed police to Berman's body. Jarecki and the producers Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier realized they held potential criminal evidence. They delivered the letter to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. The new information led to Durst's indictment for the first-degree murder of Berman.
The final episode of The Jinx ends with Durst stepping into a bathroom, where his microphone keeps recording. He seems to mutter to himself, ending with the words "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course." In 2019 it was disclosed that the filmmakers had altered the sequence of his comments. That made his musings sound more severe than they had been in order. In November 2023, HBO announced The Jinx - Part Two, a six-episode continuation with the same director and producers. It premiered on the 21st of April 2024 and covers the eight years since the original series, including Durst's phone calls from prison.
On the 14th of March 2015, a few days after a Los Angeles judge signed a first-degree murder warrant, FBI agents arrested Durst at the Canal Street Marriott in New Orleans. He had registered under the false name "Everette Ward." Agents tracked him there after he made two calls to check his voicemail. They watched him wander the lobby, mumbling to himself. His arrest came on the eve of the broadcast of the final episode.
Police recovered a .38 caliber revolver loaded with four live rounds and one spent casing. They also found five ounces of marijuana, his birth certificate and passport, and maps of Louisiana, Florida and Cuba. There was a "flesh-toned" latex mask, a fake Texas ID card, a new cell phone and $42,631 in cash. A UPS tracking number led to another $117,000 in cash, in a package sent by a friend in New York. Bank statements showed $315,000 in withdrawals in little more than a month. Durst is believed to have planned to flee to Cuba, since the United States and Cuba have no extradition treaty.
Louisiana State Police charged Durst with gun offenses on the 16th of March, the same day DeGuerin said Durst would waive extradition. Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro noted that, given prior convictions, the state gun charges alone could mean up to life in prison. After negotiations with the defense, Louisiana dropped those charges on the 23rd of April. Rather than go to trial on a separate federal weapons charge, Durst changed his plea to guilty and received an 85-month prison sentence.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John Lewin had flown to New Orleans right after the arrest. With Durst's permission, Lewin interviewed him for three hours without a lawyer present. Lewin found the information uncovered by The Jinx compelling, and he repeatedly flew to New York to interview witnesses. The recorded interview was later introduced as evidence at the Berman trial.
In October 2018, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Windham ruled that enough evidence existed to try Durst for Berman's murder. Durst pleaded not guilty the following month. Windham also allowed prosecutors to present evidence about the Black killing, which he said seemed "to be intertwined" with the Berman case. Prosecutors argued that McCormack's disappearance was the foundation of the motive. The charge carried special circumstance allegations of lying in wait and killing a witness to a crime.
On the 24th of December 2019, Durst's lawyers made a surprise admission in court documents. They said Durst had written the "cadaver note," something he had denied in every earlier statement. During filming of The Jinx, Durst had told the filmmakers that whoever wrote the note was taking a "big risk." He called it something "that only the killer could have written." He told his godson, Howard Altman, "The person who wrote the note killed her." His attorneys argued only that the note showed its sender knew a body was in the house.
The trial opened on the 2nd of March 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic soon halted it. Windham offered to let it continue as a bench trial, without a jury, and Durst declined. Proceedings resumed on the 17th of May 2021 after a fourteen-month break. That same day, Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah announced that McCormack's disappearance had been reclassified as murder.
On the 10th of June 2021, Durst was hospitalized after being found "down and not in his wheelchair." Lewin voiced suspicion, noting that Durst was on record in jail calls saying he intended to feign dementia or seek a mistrial. Prison doctors found him able to appear, and the hospitalization was for a urinary tract infection and sepsis. The trial resumed on the 14th of June, with Durst in a wheelchair, attached to a catheter bag and covered by a large blanket.
On the 28th of June, Douglas Durst appeared as a prosecution witness, saying he came only under threat of subpoena. "He'd like to murder me. I hired security today." The prosecution closed its case after eleven weeks. Nick Chavin, a close friend who had been Durst's best man, testified that Durst told him, "I had to. It was Berman or me. I had no choice."
The defense opened with Elizabeth Loftus, an expert on false memory, who questioned the decades-long recollections of prosecution witnesses. Then Durst himself took the stand, which is highly unusual in a murder case. He testified for fourteen days under questioning by Lewin. Lewin pushed him until he admitted lying under oath at the Black trial and five times at this one. Durst and Loftus were the only witnesses the defense called.
On the 17th of September 2021, the jury convicted Durst of the first-degree murder of Berman. His lawyers argued for a new trial because no physical evidence had been presented. The court denied the request, citing the abundance of evidence of his guilt. On the 14th of October, Windham sentenced him to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. On the 22nd of October 2021, Durst was formally charged with the murder of Kathie McCormack.
Durst traveled and lived under dozens of aliases. He used them to buy cars, rent apartments and open credit card accounts. A former office employee told Newsweek that Durst kept a scanner, a copier and a laminating machine. The employee realized only later that this equipment could have made a fake driver's license. Durst was also a prolific user of private mailboxes. He conducted business under canine-themed names, including Woofing LLC, WoofWoof LLC and Igor-Fayette Inc.
Those names echoed his dogs. In the early 1980s, according to Douglas, Durst owned seven Alaskan Malamutes, all named Igor, and all died in mysterious circumstances. In December 2014, Douglas told the Times that he now believed Robert had been practicing killing and disposing of his wife with those dogs. Durst was once recorded saying he wanted to "Igor" Douglas. Durst himself said he owned only three, one run over and another dead after surgery for eating an apple core, "before the Igor that lasted forever."
On the 11th of December 2000, Durst married Debrah Lee Charatan. The New York Times reported that they briefly shared a Fifth Avenue apartment in 1990 but never lived together as husband and wife. He told his sister Wendy it was a marriage of convenience. In a 2005 deposition he said he wanted Charatan to receive his inheritance, and he intended to kill himself. When he was arrested in 2001, she wired him the $250,000 bail. After the Black trial she reportedly distanced herself, and she specifically told him not to involve himself with The Jinx.
From about 1994 to 2006, Durst waged a legal campaign for greater control of the family trust, receiving $2 million a year in the meantime. In 2006 the case settled, and he gave up any interest in the family's properties in exchange for about $65 million. He gave Charatan around $20 million of it. As of 2021, the Durst family's real estate holdings were worth more than $8 billion, and Douglas had run the company since the early 1990s. At the time of his 2015 arrest, the FBI estimated Durst's net worth at about $100 million. The Times put it at $110 million. In 2021, he was also listed in the Pandora Papers leak.
On the 16th of October 2021, two days after his sentencing, Durst tested positive for COVID-19 and was placed on a ventilator. He died of cardiac arrest at San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, California, on the 10th of January 2022, at age 78. He had been undergoing medical tests and did not respond to resuscitation. He remained in the custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Because his appeal was still pending, his conviction for Berman's murder was automatically vacated.
In January 2022, McCormack's family filed a wrongful death suit against Durst's estate, the fourth such civil suit since 2015. A federal judge then froze the estate of Charatan, his second wife and heir, which was worth $100 million. In March 2023, a federal judge ruled that the suit could proceed and was not untimely because of Durst's death. On the 5th of May 2026, a federal judge dismissed the suit against Charatan. She will legally inherit Durst's entire estate, whose current value is unknown.
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Who was Robert Durst?
Robert Alan Durst (the 12th of April 1943 to the 10th of January 2022) was an American real estate heir and convicted murderer. He was the eldest son of New York City real estate magnate Seymour Durst and was long suspected in the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack.
What was Robert Durst convicted of?
Robert Durst was convicted on the 17th of September 2021 of the first-degree murder of his friend Susan Berman. On the 14th of October 2021 he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, but the conviction was vacated when he died with his appeal pending.
How did The Jinx lead to Robert Durst's arrest?
During filming of The Jinx, Susan Berman's stepson found a 1999 letter from Robert Durst with the same "Beverley Hills" misspelling as the anonymous "cadaver" note sent to police. The filmmakers gave the letter to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, and the FBI arrested Durst in New Orleans on the 14th of March 2015.
Was Robert Durst acquitted of killing Morris Black?
Yes, a jury acquitted Robert Durst of murder in the death of his neighbor Morris Black on the 11th of November 2003. Durst claimed self-defense, and prosecutors lacked forensic evidence to dispute his account because Black's head was never recovered.
What happened to Robert Durst's first wife, Kathie McCormack?
Kathleen McCormack disappeared in January 1982 and was never found. She was declared legally dead in 2017, and Robert Durst was charged with her murder on the 22nd of October 2021, but he died before a trial could begin.
How did Robert Durst die?
Robert Durst died of cardiac arrest at San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, California, on the 10th of January 2022, at age 78. He was in the custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at the time.
Who inherited Robert Durst's estate?
Debrah Lee Charatan, Robert Durst's widow, will inherit his entire estate. A federal judge dismissed the McCormack family's wrongful death lawsuit against her on the 5th of May 2026.
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- 15NewsMillionaire Fugitive Has Been Caught, but Mysteries RemainCharles V. Bagli et al. — December 2, 2001
- 16JournalDurst Case ScenariosGary Cartwright — Genesis Park — February 2002
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- 18NYC real-estate mogul: My killer brother is a dog-slaying monsterSelim Algar — News Corp. — January 3, 2015
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- 21NewsReopened Mystery: A special report.; A Woman's Disappearance Is Still Baffling After 19 YearsKevin Flynn et al. — March 6, 2001
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- 25NewsKathleen Durst forged a persistent friendship while at WesternJohn Burgeson et al. — Hearst Corporation — March 16, 2015
- 26News10 Thoughts About 'The Jinx'Maureen Ryan — March 24, 2015
- 27NewsDid Robert Durst Murder His Own Best Friend, 'Mafia Princess' Susan Berman?Zoie Matthew — June 26, 2019
- 28MagazineRobert Durst Faces Photos of Slain Friend in Life, in DeathValence Media — April 17, 2018
- 29NewsRobert Durst's arrest brings hope of justice to New Hyde Park family of his missing first wifeLisa Irizarry — April 4, 2015
- 30After three decades, Kathie Durst's college friend seeks closureRob Ryser — 2015-03-22
- 31NewsWoman who inspired The Beatles' 'Dear Prudence' once dated Robert DurstIsabel Vincent et al. — March 28, 2015
- 32The Creepiest Things Robert Durst Says in His All Good Things DVD CommentaryAlex Palmer — New York Media — April 1, 2015
- 33NewsResuming the Search: Police Reopen the Case of Kathie Durst, Who Disappeared 18 Years AgoBill Hewitt et al. — Meredith Corporation — December 4, 2000
- 34NewsNo answer to Kathie Durst's 1982 disappearanceJane Lerner — Gannett Company — January 27, 2015
- 35Durst case: Was 'last' phone call really from wife who went missing?Brian Melley — February 14, 2017
- 36NewsHeir Divorced His Missing Wife 11 Years AgoBagli et al. — December 22, 2001
- 37Family wants Robert Durst's missing ex declared deadJulia Marsh — March 31, 2016
- 38Thirty-six years after her disappearance, Kathie Durst's family continues to fight for justiceJennifer M. Eng — January 31, 2018
- 39NewsFamily accuses Robert Durst of killing wife Kathleen in suitJohn Marzulli — November 30, 2015
- 41News35 Years Later, Sister in Durst Case Is Still Looking for AnswersCharles V. Bagli — February 5, 2017
- 42Lawsuit accusing Robert Durst of killing his wife thrown outLia Eustachewich — August 7, 2019
- 43Appeals Court Adjusts Death Date in Case of Robert Durst's WifeAndrew Denney — May 30, 2018
- 44NewsProsecutors reopen former CT college student Kathie Durst's case as Robert Durst faces homicide trial in CaliforniaTara O'Neill — May 28, 2021
- 45Westchester DA to impanel grand jury on disappearance of Robert Durst's wifeJorge Fitz-Gibbon — October 10, 2021
- 46NewsAnonymous note suggests Durst link to pal's LA murderBandler — March 9, 2015
- 47NewsDid Robert Durst's nemesis ignore clues before following his trail to California?Gumbel — March 29, 2015
- 48NewsSearch Warrant for Robert Durst's Houston HomeMarch 18, 2015
- 49NewsRobert Durst's Wife Steps Back After Years of Defending HimBagli — March 31, 2015
- 50NewsCross-dressing 'murderer' Robert Durst moves into Harlem townhouseRebecca Rosenberg et al. — October 24, 2011
- 51Video Vault – Murder of a Mafia Daughter, Part 2June 4, 2014
- 52NewsDurst Jumps Bail, and a Nationwide Dragnet Is OnCharles V. Bagli et al. — October 17, 2001
- 53NewsFugitive heir Robert Durst arrested in PennsylvaniaRon Todt — December 1, 2001
- 54NewsHis Next 'Victim': He Had Directions To Dead Wife's PalPeyser — September 24, 2003
- 55NewsThe Durst Tapes: Bitter Robert Planned To Knock Off His BrotherPeyser — September 26, 2003
- 56NewsJudge who presided over Robert Durst acquittal in Texas murder: 'He's very dangerous'Chelin — March 17, 2015
- 57The Mystery of Robert DurstLeung, Rebecca — March 15, 2004
- 58Prosecution forces Durst to admit his many liesSpringer, John — truTV
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- 60Millionaire Robert Durst pleads guilty to bail jumping, evidence tamperingSu, Jessica — Court TV
- 61Billionaire Robert Durst back in jailAbrams, Dan — January 25, 2006
- 62NewsMillionaire Durst allowed back to Houston homeKevin Moran — March 1, 2006
- 63Private investigator's new claims about DurstMarch 25, 2015
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- 65NewsMovie based on Durst's wife's disappearanceJones, Leigh — August 22, 2008
- 66NewsHBO to air documentary on cross-dressing killer Robert DurstDavid Li — December 2, 2014
- 67NewsD.A. reopening inquiry into death of 'The Jinx's' Susan Berman, report saysBlake — March 9, 2015
- 68NewsDurst's letter helped prosecutors bring murder chargeMcConnaughey et al. — March 17, 2015
- 69'The Jinx' Director Andrew Jarecki Applauds Robert Durst's Murder ConvictionLindsey Ellefson — September 18, 2021
- 71NewsRobert Durst Of 'The Jinx' To Be Extradited To Los Angeles For Murder Charge – UpdateDenise Petski — Penske Business Media, LLC. — December 23, 2015
- 72NewsAs Durst Murder Case Goes Forward, HBO's Film Will Also Be on TrialCharles V. Bagli — April 24, 2019
- 73'Killed them all, of course.' What the transcript of Robert Durst's The Jinx 'confession' means for his defenseK. C. Ifeanyi — April 24, 2019
- 74'The Jinx — Part Two' Revisits Bombshell Robert Durst Hot Mic ConfessionJackie Strause — March 27, 2024
- 75'The Jinx – Part Two' Sets 2024 Debut on HBO, Covers Eight More Years of Robert Durst InvestigationEthan Shanfeld — November 2, 2023
- 77NewsRobert Durst Denied Bail as Prosecutors Argue He Is a Flight RiskRobertson — March 23, 2015
- 78NewsRobert Durst worth $100 million, investigators sayHennessy-Fiske — March 19, 2015
- 79NewsRobert Durst denied bail; new details emerge in caseShoichet et al. — March 24, 2015
- 80NewsRobert Durst was registered in hotel under false name, source saysWinton et al. — March 15, 2015
- 81NewsOn HBO's 'The Jinx,' Robert Durst Says He 'Killed Them All'Bagli et al. — March 15, 2015
- 83NewsInside Robert Durst's New Orleans ArrestMiller — March 24, 2015
- 84NewsRobert Durst Had Latex Mask, Fake ID and $42,000 Cash When ArrestedBlankstein et al. — March 18, 2015
- 85NewsDurst had revolver, 5 ounces of marijuana, Louisiana warrant saysDaley — March 17, 2015
- 86NewsDurst Had Stash of Cash, Latex Mask, Fake ID, Passport, Police SayGutman — March 19, 2015
- 87NewsFBI believes Robert Durst is 'romantically linked' to New York womanSledge — May 1, 2015
- 88NewsMultimillionaire Robert Durst may have hoped to flee to Cuba. Here's how Cuba would have welcomed himNick Miroff — March 24, 2015
- 89NewsDid subject of HBO documentary really 'kill them all'?Bacon et al. — March 16, 2015
- 90NewsRobert Durst's Papers Are Seized From Hudson Valley CellarBagli — March 20, 2015
- 91NewsRobert Durst Suggests He Would Accept Plea Deal in Transcript From 2015Charles V. Bagli — December 19, 2016
- 92NewsRobert Durst Gun ChargesCharles V. Bagli — February 3, 2016
- 93NewsRobert Durst: A Timeline of His Life and Alleged CrimesMegan Keneally — March 16, 2015
- 94NewsLouisiana State Police charge Robert Durst on gun, drug violationsTravers Mackel — March 16, 2015
- 95NewsRobert Durst's attorneys ask judge to release him for extradition to CaliforniaHennessy-Fiske — April 4, 2015
- 96NewsDurst arrest warrant should be 'thrown out,' attorneys sayHennessy-Fiske — March 31, 2015
- 97NewsRobert Durst's Lawyers Want to Call the Agents Who Arrested Him as WitnessesBagli et al. — April 2, 2015
- 98MagazineDurst Lawyers Say FBI Illegally Searched His Hotel RoomMcConnaughey — April 1, 2015
- 100NewsRobert Durst Indicted on Louisiana Drug and Weapons ChargesBaker — April 8, 2015
- 101NewsRobert Durst Indicted on Gun Charges in New OrleansBagli — April 8, 2015
- 102NewsReal estate scion Robert Durst indicted on weapons charges in New OrleansKaminsky — April 8, 2015
- 103NewsRobert Durst to Cops: I Want the $161,000 You SeizedConnor — April 17, 2015
- 104NewsLouisiana gun case against millionaire Durst dropped, lawyer saysApril 23, 2015
- 105NewsUS judge puts off Durst weapons charge trial until SeptemberApril 20, 2015
- 106NewsRobert Durst 'Is Not Suicidal,' His Attorney SaysBaker — March 31, 2015
- 107Real Estate Heir Robert Durst's Weapons Trial PostponedAugust 5, 2015
- 108NewsIs Robert Durst moving closer to answering a murder charge in L.A.?Molly Hennessey-Fisk — November 16, 2015
- 109Robert Durst won't sign New Orleans plea deal this yearDecember 16, 2015
- 110Robert Durst: 'Medical Complications' Delaying Extradition, Says LawyerHarris — August 24, 2016
- 111NewsLawyer Says Robert Durst's Former Friend Concocted His Story of a ConfessionCharles V. Bagli — February 17, 2017
- 112Secret witness in Robert Durst case unmasked as old pal Nick ChavinAndrew Blankstein et al. — February 16, 2017
- 113NewsDurst Attorneys Agree to Preliminary Hearing in OctoberDigital First Media — February 10, 2017
- 115Robert Durst Pleads Not Guilty in Friend's Benedict Canyon SlayingNovember 9, 2018
- 116Robert Durst murder trial is set for SeptemberGerber — January 15, 2019
- 117Robert Durst defense: Evidence could be 'game over' for heirBrian Melley — January 17, 2019
- 118Key hearing in Robert Durst murder case postponed until AprilMarisa Gerber — September 20, 2017
- 119Robert Durst and His Attorneys Try to Suppress the Infamous 'Beverley Hills' Handwriting EvidenceLex Briscuso — May 9, 2019
- 121Robert Durst's murder trial postponed to January, sparking worry from Kathie Durst's brotherNancy Dillon — May 17, 2019
- 122Robert Durst Loses a Round as Murder Trial ApproachesDon Debenedictis — September 4, 2019
- 123Robert Durst Murder Trial: LA District Attorney Says 2015 Interview Should RemainTim Baysinger — December 10, 2019
- 124NewsRobert Durst admits to writing 'cadaver note' linked to Susan Berman killing, court records showJames Queally — December 31, 2019
- 125NewsRobert Durst, Subject of 'The Jinx,' Admits Writing Key Note in Murder CaseCharles V. Bagli — December 31, 2019
- 126Robert Durst bets on another miracle to beat murder rapEdvard Pettersson — March 2, 2020
- 127NewsRobert Durst murder trial postponed because of coronavirus as court announces new safety measuresMatt Hamilton — March 15, 2020
- 128Durst's motion for mistrial denied – Port Washington TimesRose Weldon — June 30, 2020
- 129NewsRobert Durst Murder Trial to Resume in 2021 Because of VirusJuly 31, 2020
- 130NewsRobert Durst's murder trial will resume on May 17 in Los AngelesPaul Vercammen — March 17, 2021
- 131NewsRobert Durst's lawyers say he has bladder cancer and ask to postpone trial indefinitelyPaul Vercammen — May 13, 2021
- 133NewsRobert Durst Trial Resumes After 14-Month Pandemic HiatusBrian Melley — May 19, 2021
- 134Robert Durst hospitalized, judge says, forcing another stay in long-delayed murder trialMatthew Ormseth — June 10, 2021
- 135Robert Durst draped in blanket after hospital; witness says Susan Berman told her 'accident on stairs' involved Kathie DurstNancy Dillon — June 14, 2021
- 136NY billionaire Douglas Durst testifies at brother Robert Durst's slay trial: 'He'd like to murder me'Nancy Dillon — June 28, 2021
- 137Legal TroublesFebruary 21, 2017
- 138Robert Durst Trial to Continue on Monday After COVID-19 ScareDaniel Goldblatt — August 6, 2021
- 139Fate of Robert Durst in jury's hands after long murder trialSeptember 15, 2021
- 140NewsRobert Durst Found Guilty of Murder After Decades of SuspicionCharles V. Bagli — September 17, 2021
- 141Citing 'The Jinx,' Robert Durst Seeks New Trial After Murder Conviction in Killing of Friend Susan BermanAaron Keller — September 24, 2021
- 142NewsRobert Durst's Death Comes With a Bizarre Legal TwistCharles V. Bagli — January 10, 2022
- 143NewsRobert Durst Case: Missing Student Lynne Schulze Shopped at His Business: CopsErik Ortiz — March 24, 2015
- 144NewsRobert Durst linked to Vermont student who vanished in 1971; police investigatingRichard Winton — March 23, 2015
- 145NewsFamily friend recalls missing Eureka teenChambers — March 20, 2014
- 147NewsRobert Durst Linked To Disappearance Of College Student From SimsburyStoller — March 24, 2015
- 148NewsRobert Durst's attorney says he will not let Vermont police talk to his clientLarson — March 25, 2015
- 149News'We haven't been able to rule him out': Robert Durst and another cold caseDean — April 19, 2015
- 150NewsHumboldt cold case: Investigators remember Karen Mitchell 15 years after she disappearedPoor — December 2, 2012
- 151BookA Deadly Secret: the Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert DurstBirkbeck — Berkley (Penguin Random House LLC) — 2005
- 152NewsFor Heir Accused of Killing, a Loyal and Tough AllyBagli — September 20, 2003
- 153NewsWife of real estate heir Robert Durst sells Fifth Avenue padJennifer Gould Keil — November 16, 2014
- 154NewsDurst's wife is the 'mastermind' behind coupleGould Keil et al. — March 18, 2015
- 155Who the hell would marry Robert Durst?Mackenzie Dawson — October 31, 2015
- 156Steven I. HolmMarch 31, 2015
- 157Debrah Lee Charatan: Real Estate GrantsApril 18, 2019
- 158Steven Holm deadREW — October 23, 2019
- 159Robert Durst's second wife should be charged with bigamy, lawyer saysRebecca Rosenberg — March 6, 2020
- 161NewsWhat it was like to work for Robert DurstMosendz — March 20, 2015
- 162NewsReal Estate Chief Fears Troubled Sibling Has New Weapon: TVDwyer — January 1, 2015
- 163NewsFor Durst Family, Arrest Brings a 'Tremendous Sense of Relief'Dwyer — March 24, 2015
- 164Robert Durst's case is delayed after he was hospitalized for an unknown problemMarisa Gerber — November 16, 2017
- 165Durst's health problems not an issue, attorney saysMolly Hennessy-Fiske — April 7, 2015
- 167Robert Durst on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19, his lawyer saysJames Queally — October 16, 2021
- 168Robert Durst, convicted murderer, has Covid-19Casarez — October 16, 2021
- 169NewsThe Shadowy History Of Robert Durst's Real Estate HoldingsMosendz — March 18, 2015
- 170NewsTracking Robert Durst, from condos to secret dog stores: what's he still hiding?Dean et al. — March 23, 2015
- 171JournalCross-Dressing Convict Robert Durst Returns to New YorkRichard Byrne Reilly — February 4, 2011
- 172NewsRobert Durst booked a profit on Houston condo he never moved intoWeiss — April 21, 2015
- 173NewsA look at Robert Durst's time living in HoustonLarson et al. — May 8, 2015
- 174NewsManhunt has Humboldt Connection: Case on America's Most Wanted SaturdayJudy Hodgson — November 29, 2001
- 175Multimillionaire killer charged for urinating on candy at drugstoreFredericks — July 22, 2014
- 176What is Robert Durst really worth?Frank — March 16, 2015
- 177NewsDurst Cuts Ties to Family in Return for $65 MillionCharles Bagli — February 7, 2006
- 178Cross-dressing killer now making a killing in NYC real estateGould Keil — July 14, 2014
- 179NewsBrother could freeze Robert Durst's millions following legal dealJulia Marsh — May 1, 2015
- 180NewsRobert Durst's brother drops litigation against HBO filmmakerHutchins — April 24, 2015
- 181NewsFamily of Robert Durst's First Wife Sues Him for $100 Million in Her DisappearanceCharles V. Bagli — November 30, 2015
- 182NewsDurst in-laws want assets frozen during civil suitJonathan Bandler — December 10, 2015
- 183NewsFamily of Robert Durst's First Wife Asks Court to Declare Her DeadCharles V. Bagli — July 14, 2016
- 184Rogue Americans shielded money offshore, eluding victims and criminal investigatorsWill Fitzgibbon — October 4, 2021
- 185NewsRobert Durst, Troubled Scion of Real Estate Family, Is Acquitted of TrespassingBagli — December 11, 2014
- 186NewsJudge Acquits Robert Durst In Trespassing CaseDecember 11, 2014
- 187NewsNew York real estate scion acquitted of trespassing on family propertyMalo — December 11, 2014
- 188NewsDurst accused of urinating on candy at CVSRice, Harvey — July 22, 2014
- 189NewsRobert Durst: From riches to allegedly peeing on candyMatthew Diebel — July 24, 2014
- 190NewsDurst pleads 'no contest' in CVS urination incidentRogers — December 16, 2014
- 191NewsRobert Durst fined $500 after urinating on candy at CVSDecember 16, 2014
- 192NewsVideo released of Robert Durst urinating in Houston drug storeMay 6, 2015
- 193NewsMillionaire murderer Robert Durst dies in prisonBBC News — January 10, 2022
- 194NewsRobert Durst, convicted murderer and subject of HBO's 'The Jinx,' has diedPaul Vercammen et al. — CNN — January 10, 2022
- 195BREAKING - Major legal victory for family of Kathie Durst. In rare legal decision, Federal judge in NY essentially…March 17, 2022
- 197https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/62639184/bamonte-v-charatan/April 29, 2025
- 199MagazineLaw & Order: SVU: Two-hour premiere to explore Robert Durst caseAmanda Michelle Steiner — August 10, 2015
- 200SNL Archives | Episodes | DetailsNovember 15, 2003
- 203NewsWhat to Watch on Saturday: Lifetime's Robert Durst movie, Larry David on 'SNL'Brooke Cain — November 11, 2017
- 204NewsRobert Durst Movie In Works At LifetimeDenise Petski — August 23, 2016
- 205'Robert Durst: An ID Murder Mystery' Explores the Twisted Truth Behind the Real Estate HeirChristina Gables — NTVB Media, Inc. — January 18, 2019
- 206Robert Durst: An ID Murder MysteryCBS Interactive Inc.
- 207The Jurors Who Acquitted O.J., Robert Durst, Michael Jackson and George Zimmerman SpeakAdam Carlson — June 20, 2017
- 208Robert Durst: The Lost YearsFebruary 14, 2024
- 209BookA Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie DurstMatt Birkbeck — 2002
- 210BookMurder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan BermanCathy Scott — Barricade Books — 2002
- 211BookSex and the Serial Killer: My Bizarre Times with Robert DurstWilliam Steel — CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform — 2019