Breaking: Robert Durst, who was convicted of murder after decades of suspicion and was the subject of the documentary 'The Jinx,' dies
Real estate scion Robert Durst dodged justice for nearly four decades since the disappearance of his wife Kathleen McCormack in New York in 1982. In Texas, he beat charges of killing a neighbor whose body he admitted to dismembering and dumping into Galveston Bay. And for 15 years, he eluded Los Angeles investigators who suspected he killed his close friend Susan Berman at her Benedict Canyon home.
McCormack was a medical student when she vanished in 1982, and her husband became the lead suspect in her possible death and a fixture of New York tabloids. Robert Durst was the first son of Seymour Durst, and thus a scion to one of New York’s oldest and wealthiest real estate companies, the Durst Organization.
According to “The Jinx,” Durst said he couldn’t bear to talk to her about “canning” or New England lifestyle articles she read in Yankee magazine. On the witness stand in August , Durst admitted that he lied when he told NYPD investigators that he spoke to his wife by phone to confirm she had reached their Manhattan apartment.
“The Los Angeles police contacted me,” she said, according to comments Durst made in “The Jinx.” “They want to talk about Kathie Durst’s disappearance.” But when an operator answered his call from the pay phone, Durst said, he started to have reservations. Under questioning from his lead defense attorney, DeGuerin, Durst could only admit he had lied about it over the years.
He rented a run-down $300-a-month apartment in Galveston in the name of Dorothy Ciner, his high school girlfriend, presenting himself as a mute woman so he didn’t have to try to fake a female voice. At trial in Texas, he testified that he came home to find Black in his apartment, wielding Durst’s .22-caliber handgun and threatening him. In an ensuing scuffle, he said, the gun went off accidentally and shot Black in the head.
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