♪ robert durst is a devilish character. >> in 1982, his wife disappears. >> dooeevious, malicious. >> since then he has been suspected of killing a neighbor. >> a fisher discovered a limbless, headless torso here in the waters of galveston bay. >> this is a guy who doesn't believe that any rules apply to himself. >> neighbors called police who found the writer dead of a single gunshot wound to the head. >> i was dumbfounded. i never thought that in a hundred years that she would die pthat way. >> he can do whatever he wants whenever he wants to do it, to whoever he wants to do it to. >> because he was wealthy and he had the power to do it. ♪ i'll never let 'em catch me ♪ >> a very high-profile murder trial ended with a verdict that was so surprising, the defendant

appeared to be caught off guard. >> he got a kick out of getting away with things. >> bob's problem is that he loves the attention. >> robert durst's sense of invincibility, he thinks nothing sticks. >> it was a huge blunder for bob to appear in "the jinx." >> jaws were on the floor. no one could believe what they had just heard. >> robert durst, recently the subject of a documentary series, tonight under arrest. >> i get called by my assistant d.a. you better win this case. >> do not let this narcissistic psychopath get away with what he has done. ♪ i'll keep running to save my soul ♪ ♪

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>> i'm officer rashad sharif from the los angeles police department. that was christmas eve, 2000. and it was a nice southern california december -- 70 degrees, clear skies. >> the street there is one of the main thoroughfares from west hollywood, hollywood area to the valley. >> we received a radio call, and we started heading that way up to the canyon. >> it's a beverly hills zip code. it is a fairly affluent area because it's up in the hills. >> the call was an open door where the neighbor had not seen their neighbor for a while, and the dog is running around loose. there was a rear door that was open. >> and they went, and that's when they found the body of susan berman. >> and her body is laying there. gunshot to the back of the head. the dogs' bloody paw prints

all around her body. >> we discovered one shell casing. >> police found 55-year-old susan berman dead of a single gunshot wound to the head. nothing was stolen, and the neighbors report having never heard a shot fired. >> there was no forced entry in that house, so whoever came had to know her. >> and there was no defensive wounds on her. and when her back was to him, he cowardly executed her by putting that gun to the back of her head and pulling the trigger. >> about two days later, the beverly hills police department receives a rather intriguing piece of mail, and then the mystery deepens. >> what the murderer did in l.a. was take notepaper and a green pen and wrote "cadaver" and her address and sent it to the beverly hills police department, and spelled "beverly" wrong.

>> it was kind of weird because we thought, who uses the word "cadaver"? and who would send a letter to the beverly hills police? it's like, somebody doesn't want her laying there for any length of time. >> little did detective coulter know that solving this case and bringing that someone to justice would take 20 years, the combined efforts of the lapd and the fbi, 50 law clerks, 9 prosecutors, and a 2-year trial. >> susan was the only child of a major vegas gangster. her father, davie berman, they called him davie the jew. >> and then the day that bugsy siegel was shot in l.a., him and five others walked into the flamingo and took over the flamingo. >> she would do her homework in the casino counting room, using the chips to do her math.

>> her dad loved susan, spoiled her rotten. and he was a quiet man but very forceful and very well respected. and susan just absolutely adored him. >> when susan was only 12, her father died on the operating table. he was in the hospital for a routine surgery. and this was a huge blow to susan, and it really marked her for the rest of her life. >> her mother couldn't handle it either. within a year, when she was 13, her mother died, officially by suicide. >> after her father died, susan was living in idaho with her father's brother, chickie. >> chickie put her into college at ucla, and that's where susan met bobby durst.

he was in a master's program for a year at ucla, and she was getting her bachelor's degree. he came from money. she came from money. they both led privileged childhoods. so susan went on to uc-berkley to get a masters degree in journalism. >> when susan graduated from berkeley, she went to work for "the san francisco examiner" and ended up meeting nick chavin. >> so, i was with susan berman, and that's when she said to me, i got a friend i want you to meet. he's my best friend. we went to school together at ucla. she says, you two are destined to be bad boys in love. [ laughter ] >> they got along like gangbusters. and of course susan was in the middle of all that. so, they were the three musketeers. >> i was starting in real estate advertising, and bob is like a mogul in real estate.

and he's the eldest son of the durst family. and he is without a question the heir to all this. until his wife disappeared. that changed everything. >> robert and kathie durst appeared to have the entire fairy tale. >> kathie durst was my best friend, and the last conversation that i had with kathie was a very powerful conversation. >> according to gilberte, she said, if anything happens to me -- >> you'll check it out. i'm afraid of what bobby might do. >> that was the last she ever heard from her again.

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♪ what's developed, say police, are questions about the mysterious disappearance of durst's wife kathleen in 1982. and most recently, the execution-style murder of susan berman. >> the relationship between those two cases are so interrelated. kathie's death ultimately led to susan's death. >> you have to understand who he is before you can understand what he did. >> the durst organization is a

very large real estate empire. they're kinda behind the scenes and quiet, unlike the trumps. you don't see their names plastered all over buildings. >> it's a billion dollar company that owns some of the most prestigious properties in new york. >> seymour durst, bob's father, was the company's dynamo. he was the driving force. >> they are responsible for the whole revitalization of times square. >> their skyscrapers help form the new york skyline. >> robert durst grew up in scarsdale, new york, in a very affluent area. bob was a difficult child. he didn't excel in school. he was socially separated from both his family and friends. >> his mother either jumped or accidentally fell off the family roof at their house in

scarsdale. and bob claims to have seen it at age 7. >> bob durst grew up the oldest of four children. >> and he was the one who was set to inherit it all. he was the one who was set to take over the family business. >> bobby durst meets this beautiful woman, kathleen mccormack. she was a tenant in one of the buildings his family owned in new york city. >> they couldn't be more different. robert durst was jewish. kathie was catholic. bob came from a privileged life. kathie came from a working-class family. >> she's 19, and bob's almost 30. bob was, y ouknow this dashing, "i'm going to do whatever i want," and kathie's a kid. >> my sister kathie, she always

wanted to make a contribution. she started going to school at western connecticut state college. she got her four year degree in nursing. and she said, i want to be a doctor. i can give more. i've got more to give. >> kathie was a student at the einstein medical school in the bronx. >> she said to me, i'm gonna be the first durst to be an md, a doctor. she goes, in jewish families, that's an honor. >> bobby and kathie, from the beginning, seemed to have a wonderful marriage. it wasn't the money she loved. she loved him. >> bob's father had this huge business that was growing and he wanted his eldest son to work in the business. >> but not only did he not like the real estate business, he wasn't really very good at it. >> he would show up to work in shorts and a t-shirt, which is -- you know, the real estate business is not like that. it's a very formal business. >> you know, bobby was a real weirdo.

he did things like burp out loud and think it was funny. >> he told us that he would pee in waste baskets. >> he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it. that's how he's lived his life. that's just bob durst. >> and it wasn't that long before this outlandish behavior actually morphed into something far more serious and even dangerous. >> there was the one incident at christmastime when he wanted to leave a family get together at kathie's. and kathie wasn't ready to leave and he basically grabbed her by the hair and pulled her out. >> and i remember january 31s of 1982, kathie came for dinner and was quite on edge, had been fighting with bob for most of the weekend. bob would call the house, "i want you home now." >> kathie comes home to the cottage that she shared with bob

in south salem, new york. she was angry that bob had demanded that she come home. kathie wanted to drive back into manhattan so that she could go to school the next day. >> according to robert durst, he takes her to the katonah train station to board a train bound for manhattan. >> the next day, the dean of kathie's medical school gets a call from a woman who claims to be kathie durst, complaining of couldn't show up that day.at sh- >> and bob didn't report her missing until five days after bob last saw her. and he didn't go to the police in south salem. he went to the 20th precinct on the upper west side of manhattan. this sent the investigation off on the wrong trajectory.

>> he brought a magazine in with his father and harry helmsley and donald trump's picture on the cover to say, this is who i am. >> he told me had not spoken to his wife in four or five days. but he went on to explain to me how she was a medical student and that she would take these clinical studies at hospitals and would remain in their dorms for days at a time. so it seemed reasonable to me at that point. >> and there were doormen at bob and kathie's building in new york who were saying that kathie came home that night. >> the police believed bob, and they only did their investigation in manhattan. >> so, once the media got wind that kathie had disappeared, there was a lot of interest in this case. and susan berman became his media spokesperson. >> susan was very smart.

she's very manipulative. >> susan would shield him from the press and basically paint unflattering stories about kathie, how she probably just ran off with someone. >> the police did not have a firm grasp of what exactly had happened. and by the end of 1982, the it was a cold case. >> the durst case came to my attention in 1999. it was just so interesting how she was never found in all these years. and looking at the case, it reall piqued my interest. so i just started digging into things. >> two weeks ago, a fisherman discovered a headless, limbless torso here in the waters of galveston bay. >> so i get a call that a guy named bob durst has been arrested in galveston, texas, of all places, for murdering his neighbor. and first thing i ask, is it our bob durst?

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and even though bob durst may have been looked at, there was nothing to formally charge him with anything to do with the disappearance of his wife. >> in a newspaper interview with "the new york post," robert durst said he thought his wife was still alive, and he offered a reward to help find her. >> the circle of friends immediately questioned why was it a missing persons and not a homicide? we were sure that our friend was dead. the new york city police insisted they had no evidence to support that theory. >> nearly two decades later, a very astute new york state police detective named joseph becerra, he decides he's going to open up an investigation. >> how can this woman just disappear off the face of the earth? she was about to graduate medical school. she had everything to live for. >> he decided to reopen it with the graces of the then district attorney of westchester county, jeanine pirro. >> we now are looking at this

case differently. we're not sure that she left westchester. >> so, susan berman was bob's best friend. susan acted as, basically, a spokesperson for bob, basically to shield him from the press. she was key to everything we were looking for here in new york regarding kathie's disappearance. she was one person i really wanted to speak to. >> stunningly, susan berman is murdered before detectives have an opportunity to talk to her. >> when i got the news that susan berman was murdered, i felt like a punch in the gut. >> he was extremely afraid of being arrested and extremely afraid of jeanine pirro. >> and it is right at this time that bob durst simply disappears, until there's a shocking development just months later. ♪ ♪ >> a 13-year-old boy was fishing

with his father on the coast of galveston when he noticed something in the water. >> the first object the police pull out of the water is a triple wrapped garbage bag. >> the poor boy found a torso. >> it was a small man. his legs and arms had been severed. his head was missing. >> there was a mountain of evidence in those garbage bags. >> pieces of trash from a certain address. those items told police the next place they needed to look. >> and that address led police right to a rooming house where the victim, morris black, lived. they discovered a trail of blood they discovered a trail of blood that starts in morris black's house, crisscrosses down the

hallway and leads into the kitchen, rented by a deaf, mute woman. but, of course, that person was robert durst dressed in drag. >> bob had rented this room in galveston posing as a mute woman by the name of dorothy ciner. dorothy was someone that he had attended high school with. >> robert durst was in galveston hiding from jeanine pirro. robert durst would write notes to people because, of course, he didn't want to use his lower voice. and one of the reasons that he did that was so he wouldn't sound like a man trying to be a woman. >> well, these two men, morris and bob, according to bob, used to go across the causeway to pelican island to shoot bob's guns, his handguns. >> i had gotten to know morris,

and one day he said, you have no idea the things i know. i can never talk to anybody about this, and it's just killing me. >> the problem for bob is that morris black represented a connection between who he was and where he was. >> durst was worried that morris black knew who he was, and he was afraid that he would tell police. >> robert durst became the prime suspect in the murder of morris black, so police wanted to find him right away. >> among the items recovered by police was a prescription for eyeglasses. they call the optometrist's office and tell him to be on the lookout. if this person comes to claim these glasses, call us. and that's exactly what happened. >> the clerk called the police, and they were waiting outside for bob.

and they found, inside his car, a bow saw. >> he had marijuana in the car, and he had a weapon that was illegal in texas. so he was arrested for those. he was also arrested for the murder. >> so, bob's bail was set at $300,000. >> detective cody casalas made a wisecrack -- well, you got it? and durst made a wisecrack back well, not on me. >> this money gets wired from new york and he gets out on bail. at that point, they were like, who is this guy? >> for him, $300,000 bail was chump change. >> but instead of facing justice, he goes on the run. >> he got in his car and he started driving. ultimately, he had morris black's license and his

i.d., and he rented a car in alabama. >> meanwhile, there is a national manhunt underway to find bob durst. >> police wind up busting robert durst in a shoplifting incident in bethlehem, pennsylvania, at a wegman's grocery store. he is busted shoplifting a sandwich, a band aid, and a newspaper. >> when he stole that sandwich, he had $38,000 in the trunk of his car. >> they realized though very quickly that this was no ordinary shoplifter. this was the man who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt. and they sent him back down to texas to face justice. >> there were reporters from all over the country coming to galveston to watch this trial.

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bobby durst is arrested for murder of his neighbor, who he chopped up and put body parts in galveston bay. >> but it wasn't until the fall of 2003 that the trial began. >> are we ready to bring the jury out? i'm susan criss, and i'm the judge who presided over the durst murder trial in galveston, texas. there were reporters from all over the country coming to galveston to watch this trial. >> one of the strangest courtroom cases in the country. >> by now, it's getting a lot of coverage. >> the millionaire

robert durst, his fall from grace has all of new york talking. >> really it was about the murderer in this case. like what the hell happened to bobby durst? >> there was a whole lot of people who thought that a guilty conviction for him was going to be a slam dunk. >> unlike with the disappearance of kathy or the murder of susan berman, there was a mountain of evidence tying bob to the murder scene. >> robert durst had the luxury of hiring a fort knox of defense attorneys. these are some really high-profile guys. >> he hires the two best legal gunslingers in the state of texas, dick deguirin and dave ramsey. and then to round out the trio of lawyers, they brought in chip lewis. >> everybody in galveston's been real nice to us. >> dick deguerin is very much a texas trial lawyer. he's got the cowboy hat. he is disciplined. he is professional to an extreme.

>> as far as the defense, first we had to divorce the bizarre facts from the case from what actually happened when morris black died. >> this case is not about what bob durst did after morris black died. >> from the get go, durst and his lawyers admitted that he killed morris black, but they claim that he acted in self-defense. >> the gun went off with morris black's finger on the trigger. >> all rise, please. >> where the defense's argument involves self-defense, it's not uncommon for defendants to take the stand, and robert durst did just that, in dramatic fashion. >> he get on the stand, admits he killed him, admit he is dismembered him. >> durst spoke candidly in court today, taking jurors through the pitfalls of his life, from his battle with bulimia as a child to his ongoing battle with his addiction to marijuana and alcohol.

>> dick deguerin staged a pretty dramatic re-enactment of the dispute that broke out between black and durst. >> and you grabbed him like that and wrestled him, and you've tumbled to the ground. would you be acting reasonably? >> once the issue is fairly raised of self-defense, then it's incumbent on the prosecution to disprove it beyond a reasonable doubt. >> every little saw mark in each and every one of those leg bones and arm bone z has got a whole lot of intent in it. >> the state just thought it was going to be imossible for anyone to convince a jury that a case where you cut the body up and you took the head away could have been self defense. >> you don't cut somebody up, another human being into pieces, bag him up, dump him in the bay, when you act in self-defense. >> the jury deliberated several days over this. there was a point where i thought they might end up being

hung. >> we are all sitting there, figuratively chewing our fingernails. >> good morning, you may all be seated. the jury has sent a note indicating they have a verdict. >> and they give it to the clerk and the judge looks at it. >> will the defendant please rise? >> and kind of paused just an instant. >> we the jury, find the defendant, robert durst, not guilty. >> when this verdict was read aloud and robert durst was acquitted, you could hear the gasps in the courtroom. jaws were on the floor. no one could believe what they had just heard. >> a very high-profile murder trial ended with a verdict that was so surprising, the defendant appeared to be caught off guard. >> your client sure seemed shocked when he heard the verdict. were you? >> i wasn't shocked and i don't think his expression was one of shock, it was one of great relief. >> we could not convict him. he is not guilty.

>> i wouldn't be asking him to escort my daughter to her senior prom this year, but durst is not the only crazy person in galveston. >> congratulations. >> the defense of self-defense worked in galveston. you have laws in texas that allow not only defending yourself and others, but your property. >> although bob was acquitted, there were still two other charges lodged against him. tampering with evidence -- meaning cutting up morris black's body -- and bail jmping. ultimately, bob pleaded guilty to those charges and served some more time in jail before he was free. by the time durst was released in 2006, westchester, new york, police had not yet announced developments in the kathie durst investigation and it seemingly went cold again. around the same time, the durst organization cut ties with bob

in return for a $65 million dollar payout. >> bob loved the attention he got after the verdict. >> they even make fun of him on "saturday night live." >> what's your name, bud? >> my name is robert durst. >> "law and order" featured a durst story line. >> you testified that you dismembered mr. berries body because, quote, you knew what the police would think. >> and in 2010, the legal saga involving robert durst was encapsulate in the a movie. >> i had followed the story of bob durst when it happened. you know, i was very interested in it, so we wrote a screenplay. that's a"all good things." >> "all good things," starring ryan gosling as bobby durst. >> i'm not going to be able to subsidize your lifestyle, which i don't think you want, i don't want that. >> kirsten dunst played kathy. >> it won't be like when you grew up.

>> what do you know about it? >> "all good things" was a semi-fictionalized telling of the bob durst story, but it put him at the center of three murders. >> later i found out that he'd gotten a copy of the script, even though the script was on lockdown. nothing's on lockdown in hollywood. he somehow knew somebody and he was able to get a copy of the script and he read it and he was very intrigued by it. bob called us right before "all good things" premiered and he wanted to see it. he was in los angeles, and so we drove over to a studio and we arranged for him to have a screening. >> and after seeing the movie, he made what is probably the blunder of his life. [ "best of my love" by black pumas ft. sofia reyes ] come in for workout gear, leave feeling empowered. come in for snack time, leave more fulfilled.

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>> so, in 2010 the movie "all good things" is released. the movie is well received. but the person who had the most praise for this movie was, believe it or not, robert durst himself. and he enjoyed the movie so much that after watching it, he reached out to the movie's producers, marc smerling and andrew jarecki and sparked a relationship with them. >> it became very clear to me that andrew and bob connected in a way that i did not connect. they both come from extraordinarily wealthy families. >> robert durst grew to trust andrew jarecki and marc smerling and agreed to tell his story in his own words. >> so, later that december, bob sat down for an entire weekend giving an interview at a hotel in santa monica. >> the opportunity to sit down with him in an open interview situation seemed irresistible. we did three full days with him. and bob is very open. he's almost glib. i always felt like bob had a compulsion to confess.

>> i disagree with the idea that bob was trying to confess. bob's problem is that he loves the attention. loves it. it was like a drug to him. >> those interviews became the documentary that we all know as "the jinx." >> bob durst seems down heavily by his li a j everything he touched fell apart or exploded. >> so, it's very obvious in the first interview that "the jinx" did, with bob durst, what kind of little tics he displayed when he would sit down. >> when he starts to get nervous, he starts to burp a lot. and stretch and yawn. and he talks to himself. >> his face would twitch, and he

would blink. you had to really look at and figure out how much was true and how much wasn't. >> now jarecki and smerling have all this footage -- 20 hours of interviews with bob durst. the next objective is to get friends and family and associates to tell their part of the story. that was not going to be an easy task. in fact, it took four years. >> in 2011, we start doing interviews. one of the interviews is sareb kaufman, who is susan berman's -- he's not adopted by susan, but might as well been adopted son. i stayed in l.a. to keep doing some research, and sareb called me the next day. and he said he had found something. he said, can you come by? so i said, sure. you can see in "the jinx," i go by. and sareb shows me this letter. and the writing on the letter is identical almost, to the writing on this cadaver note that had been sent to the beverly hills

police department after susan was murdered. we fly back to new york. we put it in a safe deposit box, and we sit down and we go, "oh, my god, what are we going to do next?" we realized we had something that was evidence in a murder trial. >> every documentary filmmaker hopes to find that golden nugget, that unique thing that blows the project wide open. they could never have imagined what was about to happen. they take these two identical envelopes and plan to show them to bob durst with camera rolling. it did not disappoint. >> in "the jinx," bobby denies that he wrote the note, but he says, whoever sent that note is the murderer. well, andrew jarecki says to him, "what about this?" >> they put up the two envelopes, which were so startlingly alike. the block lettering was the same. the telltale misspelling of

beverly was also the same. and bob looked a little bit stunned and flustered. and they asked him to identify which was which. >> can you tell me which one of these you wrote or which one you didn't write? >> no. >> this was the dilemma. they had discovered a new piece of evidence, and it was remarkable. it wasn't the whole case, but it was a remarkable piece of evidence. so where does the line between their obligation as a journalist end and their obligations as a good citizen begin? >> we decided that we would give it to law enforcement at some point. >> when we left marc smerling and andrew jarecki after first seeing the footage of some of the things that bob had said, after seeing the cadaver note, john and i absolutely knew robert durst is good for this murder. >> for the next two years, lapd is keeping a watchful eye,

tracking his cell phone. now, the prosecutors, meanwhile, are building their case. andrew jarecki and marc smerling are wading through hours and hours and hours of footage. and then they make another remarkable discovery. >> rolling. >> we had done the last interview with bob. the process is that when we're doing the interview, there's multiple mics, multiple cameras. there's a mic overhead. bob's got a radio mic, which is a wireless mic pinned to him. >> bob goes into the bathroom, comes out of the bathroom. i shoot him. he leaves, and that day's over. the footage goes back to the editors. and one day i hear this scream from the back editing room. one of the editors comes out, she goes, "you got to come back here." i go back, and she plays me the end of the interview. you can hear the click of the bathroom door, and he goes --

[ bleep ] >> there it is, you're caught. [ bleep ] killed them all, of course. [ bleep ] what the hell did i do? >> i'm like, oh, my god. and then the tape stops. done. that was recorded when the interview was recorded in 2012. we didn't discover it until 2014. so, it was two years after the interview that we discovered the bathroom recording. >> so, the big news was that in 2015, hbo was going to bring out this new six-part documentary called "the jinx: the life and deaths of robert durst." their promos were great, and it was up on a big billboard in times square, which is durst territory.

>> there's a big ad campaign and lots of anticipation leading up to the series. it finally premieres. but meanwhile, prosecutors have a big concern. bob durst is out there, free and with lots of cash. >> our concern was that what's going to happen is once "the jinx" airs, bob is going to end up taking off for cuba. >> after every episode of "the jinx," i was talking to bob. and he still felt that he was in pretty good shape after episode four. but when i called him to talk about episode five, i could tell he was agitated. and i knew i wasn't going to be talking to bob durst ever again. >> he realized the gravity of what he had said, and he went on the run once again. >> the fbi is pinging his phone to keep tabs on bob. and they notice he's driving east and suddenly it goes blank.

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♪ this was the most sensational, the most twisted, the most bizarre story -- i've ever covered in my career. >> it was a huge blunder for bob to appear in "the jinx." >> you've got this rich guy with all the power in the world. >> bob is very cunning and manipulative. >> robert durst, a real estate heir, under arrest for a murder that happened 15 years ago. >> charged with killing his friend susan berman. >> he murdered her. "here's my best friend. boom." >> the berman murder, the kathie durst murder, they belonged together. >> we feared some of these

witnesses might get whacked. >> he said, guess what? cutting up a body is only a misdemeanor here in texas. he thought that was pretty funny. >> this is a guy who doesn't believe any rules apply to himself. that's just bob durst. >> it was clearly a note on how what to do to get rid of a body. >> do not let this narcissistic psychopath get away with what he has done. robert durst has this sense of invincibility. he crawled under the radar for so many decades. >> in 1982, his wife kathy disappears. nobody thought she disappeared. something terrible happened to kathy. >> even though bob durst may have been looked at as a suspect or a person of interest, there was nothing to formally charge him.

>> the case just went cold as though kathie fell off the face of the earth. >> what happened to kathleen durst? state police are taking a fresh look at the case. >> and there is one person who could crack the case wide open. >> susan berman was bob's best friend. i think she was key to everything we were looking for here in new york regarding kathie's disappearance. >> 55-year-old susan berman found dead of a single gunshot wound to the head. >> when i got the news that susan berman was murdered, and i felt like a punch in the gut. >> 10 months after susan body is found, then there's another incident, this time in texas. >> galveston police say robert durst killed his next door neighbor and dumped his body into galveston bay. >> there was a mountain of evidence tying bob to the murder scene. this seemed like an open and shut case. >> we the jury find the defendant, robert durst, not

guilty. >> robert durst is acquitted of murder in a verdict that not only shocked robert durst, but shocked the entire world. >> bob thought that he was the smartest one in the room, and he probably thought, why not give my side? let me appear on this program. i can con them just like i conned everyone else in my life. >> it was a huge blunder for bob to appear in "the jinx." that's what spurred l.a. to reopen the investigation. >> the "jinx" producers shared information with the l.a. prosecutors that they'd uncovered during production, both an apparent bathroom confession from bob and a note that seemed to link him to susan berman's murder. >> this cadaver letter, this big reveal on "the jinx" turned out to be the smoking gun that prosecutors were looking for. >> we were shocked that it takes bob seeing it on tv to go,

uh-oh, i'm in trouble. but that's what happened. >> the los angeles police department detectives were monitoring bob, and they know that he's very likely going to run. >> knowing full well that bob durst has money and means to get out a dodge, the fbi and the lapd want to keep their eyes on him as much as possible. the only real way to do that is through his cell phone. >> and they notice that bob has gotten into his car and he's driving east and suddenly it goes blank. bob's turned off his phone and they have no idea where he is. and i thought, holy -- he's going to run. >> bob had turned off his cell phone so investigators couldn't locate him. and so what happened was he called his voicemail from a

phone at the new orleans mar yacht hotel, and that gave investigators the lead. >> so, two fbi agents went to the j.w. marriott. and they went up to the desk, the front desk, and they asked the clerk, so, do you have a bob durst registered here? no. do you have dorothy cinor? no. and they go through 10 more aliases that bob had used at one time or another. and as they're standing there trying to figure out their next step, who comes waltzing through the door? none other than bob durst. >> once investigators get the chance to search the room, they find a gold mine of evidence of a man hoping to be on the run. >> they find a latex mask, a professional one that you could pull over and look like a completely different person. they found money in the hotel room. they find maps, including a big map of the southeast.

they handcuff him to a chair. >> and bob happens to mention, oh, by the way, in my jacket in the closet is a gun. >> robert durst, a real estate heir and recently the subject of a documentary series, tonight under arrest for a murder that happened 15 years ago. >> the 71-year-old was apprehended at this new orleans hotel where he was registered under a fake name, everett ward. >> as soon as the fbi agents detained bob, the call goes to l.a. to say, okay, we got him on your murder warrant. >> on that saturday afternoon, i get called by my assistant d.a. who tells me, okay, we just arrested bob durst. you got what you want. you better win this case. >> when robert durst got arrested, that was the moment for lewin to take advantage of his detention and he raced down to new orleans to interview him.

>> this is a crazy situation. here, bob who's well acquainted with law enforcement and the legal system who is not demanding that he lawyer up. >> you have the right to the presence of an attorney before and during any questioning, do you understand? >> i understand. >> my goal was, how can i get him to talk to me? what can i do? and i knew that bob durst's favorite topic of conversation is bob durst. there's no question that of any suspect i've ever had, ever dealt with, you are the most interesting. bob understood that we had substantial evidence against him. >> you'd like some details from me, if i knew -- >> yes. >> about where kathie's body is. >> and about what happened to susan. >> and about what happened with susan. >> okay. and you would agree that you're

in the position, if you want, to tell me more than you have so far. >> i'm not about that, and i'm not about to go that far. >> okay. >> durst skirts around the issue of potentially getting a deal from lewin. and so it begs the question, why are you trying to cut a deal before you're charged if you're truly innocent? >> well, you asked me what i thought you wanted to hear. and what i think what you wanted to hear is, what did you do with kathie? >> right. if i tell you those things, i'm pleading guilty. >> originally my thought was that i was only 10 or 20 minutes away from a confession. over time, what i've realized, bob will let you get down to the 5 yard line pretty easily and you think you're about to score. you're not going to score. he really doesn't really start plague defense until you get to the 5. >> i'm not about to say to you, john, this is it, without my lawyer agreeing. >> okay.

>> i think there's two sides to bob durst. there's this underlying side that feels guilty for it, has a compulsion to confess, but on top of that is his self-preservation side. >> robert durst, the millionaire heir, is in court this morning in new orleans for a bond hearing. his lawyers trying to free him so he can fight those murder charges in los angeles. >> bob durst didn't kill susan berman. he's ready to end all rumor and speculation and have a trial. but we are frustrated because the local authorities are considering filing charges on him here and holding him here. >> bob durst was convicted of the gun charges and is sentenced to 85 months behind bars. >> he was held up in new orleans. so that is a absolutely massive gift, essentially, by durst. he gave us extra time. >> now the prosecution has the time that it needs to track down witnesses and find evidence that builds a bulletproof case

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re-interviewing witnesses. you got to remember, a lot of people when we interviewed him, you're talking about in 2001. >> witnesses may be dead, evidence is lost, people don't remember. you have all these obstacles in an old case. >> and there were a number of witnesses who were very reluctant to come forward. if bob could get off in galveston, he's capable of anything. >> the law allows something called conditional testimony. >> a conditional witness is someone who is 65 or older and you're fearful that they might not make it to trial. >> lewin feared that because of durst's resources, that some of these witnesses might get whacked. >> you put those witnesses on the stand, but there's no jury. they testify, it's videotaped, and then later it's played back when the jury is actually present. >> the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> yes.

>> i was uncomfortable coming forward. i feared bobby durst. he's very wealthy. he has long arms. he could hire anybody to do anything. and i was scared of him. >> did you, in your mind, come to believe who was responsible for susan's murder? >> yeah. >> who was that? >> bobby durst. >> miriam testified that at the time of kathy's disappearance, susan anxiously confided in her that she had just done a favor for durst. >> she said, i did something today, and did it for bobby. if anything ever happened to me, bobby did it. i remember her saying this to me. i didn't know how important it was. and i didn't think that anybody that i knew in my world would murder somebody. >> pressure was mounting on the prosecutors and investigators working this case to find witnesses to take the stand. and that leads them directly to nick chavin.

>> i'm known in show business. >> nick chavin was most definitely a creative character. he was a satirist, and it turns out that susan berman was actually writing a story about his musical aspirations. and then susan introduces him to bob, and the three of them are tight, thick as thieves, the best of friends. >> yeah, these were my two best friends. they were my two best friends, which is a very strange position. >> nick wanted nothing to do with this trial. nick would have been very happy to just go on the rest of his life and take these secrets to the grave. >> lewin did everything in the world to get me to talk to him, and i wouldn't answer his phone calls. and i wouldn't take his phone calls. >> lewin realizes that he's got to draw nick out. >> i'm working for miller advertising. and one fine day the head of the company came into my office, and

on his finger was a sticky. he said, you've got to call this guy. i said, who? he said, he's a district attorney in l.a. you got to call. i says, why? he says, you have to call him. >> hello. >> hey, nick. you have john habib balian and george shamlyan on. >> okay. >> nick could have told us, hey, listen, i don't know anything. but instead nick said, i'm not saying that i don't have information. i'm just not ready to share it yet. >> i tried to answer your questions the best i could. >> you've told us everything you know about bob's possible involvement in either kathie or susan's murder and your knowledge of it? >> i don't know if i have or not. i thought i did, maybe i didn't, i don't know. >> he pulled all kinds of things. wasn't susan your dear friend? >> yes. and bobby's your dear friend. so, one of them kills the other. you got to make a choice. >> honestly ask yourself -- is

bob worth it? if the roles were reversed, would bob do that for you? >> lewin is a master at ripping off the bandage, as he described it. just rip off the bandage, nick. it'll be better. and he got me to cop to what i knew. >> nick chavin's been carrying around this soul-scorching secret for a long time. >> and i told nick, and all that i'm hoping before you testify under oath, that you're honest. >> now he's ready to let it go.

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the most bizarre story -- >> i was gonna shoot myself from both sides of the head. >> -- i've ever covered in my career. there will never be another legal saga like this. >> to build a solid case against bob durst, john lewin needed to assemble a stellar team of prosecutors. >> there were actually a total of eight prosecutors who worked on this case at different times. we also had probably a total of close to 50 law clerks. >> it was very clear from the beginning that these three cases were interrelated. and for the jury to properly determine the truth, they were going to have to get the whole picture. >> we were trying to get the jury to understand that this is a guy who doesn't believe that any rules apply to himself. that's just bob durst. he's the most self-involved person i've ever seen. >> so, the trial in los angeles is high stakes for both sides.

>> bob durst was already in prison for six years by the time susan's murder trial started. >> this was a man who was in his late 70s who was battling cancer that appeared to be in the advanced stages. >> he was frail. he was weak. he was being wheeled in and out of court. he had tubes and medical devices hanging from him. >> people were wondering every day, is this guy even going to live to be able to see the duration of this trial? >> mr. lewin will make his opening statement first. and that's because the people have the burden of proof. >> after a year of false starts due to covid and, of course, bob's bad health, opening statements at the trial finally begin. >> so there's going to be three killings that we are going to prove. >> prosecutors also share their theory for the reason berman was murdered. remember that 1982 phone call from kathie to her med school claiming she was too sick to work?

well, prosecutors say it was really susan berman pretending to be kathie, giving bob a phony alibi, and they argue susan's complicity also made her a target. >> everything starts with kathie durst's disappearance and death at the hands of mr. durst and mr. durst alone. and that after that, he had to kill susan berman because he feared that she was going to talk. and then he had to kill morris black because morris black knew who he was and was putting pressure on him. >> almost from day one, prosecutors made it clear that durst's interview in "the jinx" would be a key piece of evidence. >> all of the video that you will see has been unedited. >> and that so-called cadaver note, it would be the linchpin in their case against him.p>> f

stance was always, i'm not going to show you "the jinx." i'm going to show you the raw material. >> that's what a he said in 2010. this is the interview with andrew jarecki and marc smerling. >> well, to begin with, you didn't write the cadaver note? >> i didn't write the cadaver note. >> in 2012, mr. durst made clear, the evidence is gonna show this is an absolutely true and correct statement. and this is what he said. >> you're writing a note to the police that only the killer could have written. >> on day two, defense attorney dick deguerin throws his cowboy hat into the ring, and he's hoping that same texas charm that worked down in galveston will work in l.a. >> you got deguerin coming into the courtroom just like he did in galveston. he's got his stetson on. he's got his cowboy boots on. it charmed them in texas.

>> i'm dick deguerin. i'm from texas. i don't have an accent. at least i don't think i do. >> it meant zero in los angeles. >> he was a cowboy at heart, and a very, very good defense attorney with an incredible reputation. bobby durst got the best. >> mr. lewin has made a fine presentation, very skillful, very slick. mine's not going to be that slick. >> deguerin's strategy was no evidence is evidence. if you have no physical evidence, then that means that robert durst did not murder berman. >> the evidence is lacking. the evidence isn't there. >> this is a heavyweight bout between two people that, you know, were at the top of their game. >> bob, did you love kathie? >> yes, very much. >> have you ever loved anybody in your life more than kathie?

>> no. >> did you kill her? >> no. >> we can show without question that bob is responsible for kathie's death. we can show circumstantially that bob got rid of her body. was it murder or was it manslaughter? we have no idea. >> now the prosecution focuses squarely on the berman murder. they play the testimony of their star witness, nick chavin, best friend to both bob durst and susan berman. >> how do you feel about being here today? >> i feel like it's something i have to do. >> sometime in late 2014, did you have a dinner with robert durst? >> yes. >> so, nick recounts to lewin exactly what happened. >> we the jury find the defendant -- >> i hadn't seen him in ten

years, and he called when acquitted in galveston. he said, hey, nicky, guess what? cutting up a body is only a misdemeanor here in texas. he thought that was pretty funny. so now he said, let's have dinner to celebrate. i'm coming to new york. >> they go to dinner at a little restaurant called barawine, a french bistro. and they're having dinner. but as they put on their coats and they're leaving, nick realizes they haven't talked about susie or kathie. >> we walked out the door, and on the sidewalk, i said, you wanted to talk about susan. and bob said, i had to. it was her or me. i had no choice. that stunned me.

then i said, you said also you wanted to talk to me about kathie. and he turned on his heel and began walking north away from me. i said, bob? bob? and he didn't answer. he just kept walking. >> so, it's a very dramatic moment. and it's basically a confession. >> lewin was masterful. the evidence was unbelievable. >> now it's time for the defense to take its turn. and just as they had done in galveston, they call defendant robert durst to testify. >> bob, did you kill susan berman? >> no. >> do you know who did? >> no, i do not. >> and for the most part, it sounded quite reasonable. >> i got the idea of sending a letter to the beverly hills police that susan was dead in her house. >> what was your state of mind? >> i was trying to decide if

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cross-examination begins in the robert durst murder trial. durst's attorneys wrapped up his direct examination of his client. >> mr. durst, mr. deguerin called you bob. do you want me to call you bob? do you want me to call you mr. durst? what would you prefer? >> how about sir? >> you can call me, sir. he becomes very hostile right off the bat, and it was downhill from there. would you lie under oath to help your case? >> yes. >> throughout nine days of cross-examination, lewin repeatedly catches durst in lies, showing that he has been lying for years and that he he would be willing to protect himself by lying. >> did you not say that you would lie about whether you murdered susan berman, whether you murdered kathie durst, and whether you murdered

morris black? >> if i had killed them, i would lie about that. >> lewin must have been doing cartwheels inside his body because that was a gift. you know? in other words, i'm a big fat liar. >> when he admitted to john lewin that he would perjure himself, i looked at mr. deguerin because they had lost control of their own client. >> i think i need to congratulate you. you filled up 18 lines on my tablet. >> and i want to congratulate you, you've set the perjury record. >> your honor. your honor, i have a motion. >> you cannot let him get away with that. >> it was very tense between robert durst and john lewin. >> lewin confronts durst about a piece of evidence in durst's own handwriting, referred to as the dig note. and it was found in his trash can not long after kathie's

disappearance. written on it were a number of potentially suspicious words including town dump, bridge, dig, boat, shovel among others. >> the dig note was very bad for robert durst. it was clearly a note of what to do to dispose of a body. >> so, mr. durst, would you agree this looks like a list of how you would get rid of a body? >> that's what it looks like to you. >> durst tried to write off the note as nothing sinister. it was just a mundane to-do list. >> bridge is an abbreviation of bridgehampton. d-i-g is for digital. boat is the sailboat that needed to go to the town dump. shovel was a snow shovel. >> one of the most, i think, entertaining or hilarious parts of the whole trial was how durst

sort of reverse-engineered the meaning of everything on that dig note. >> but that's his mentality -- i'm bob durst. i can do and say whatever i want. >> lewin went on to question durst about the now famous smoking gun moment from "the jinx." >> all right, mr. durst, i want to talk about what has been referred to as the bathroom audio. you said, there it is, your caught, correct? >> i accept that. >> and you would agree that while you were in the bathroom mr. durst, you said the words, "killed them all, of course." correct? >> i think what i said was, "they'll all think i killed them al." >> can we cue it up please? i want you to listen, mr. durst. >> killed them all, of course.

>> so, you think that you added, "they'll all think" before the words, "i killed them all, of course"? is that correct? >> that's correct. >> please play it again. please play it right before. i want to you listen very carefully. i want you to tell me when you hear any of the words you just described. >> killed them all, of course. >> do you understand, mr. durst, that your attorneys have already stipulated that what we just played is unaltered, unedited footage? >> i don't think the mic picked up everything i said. >> and throughout the trial, lewin continued to remind jurors that durst is a self-admitted liar. >> would you agree that the admissions you've made about your perjury are extremely

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this was a case that was stranger than fiction, but what this case did above all was it resurfaced secrets from the past. >> bob showed a remarkable facility to make up stories at the drop of a hat and to pack

them full of details, which makes you think they must be true. >> listen to what he says about the discovery of susan berman's body. >> was she cold to the touch? was she warm to the touch? could you tell? >> i put my hand over her face, i might have left that out, to see if she was breathing, see if i could feel breath. and it felt cold. >> the most compelling part to me of the cross-examination, was when he was talking about finding her body. >> her breath -- her face felt cold. >> she's dead! what do you mean her breath felt co -- was she breathing on you when you got there? >> no, she was not breathing. >> so how can her breath be cold when she's dead? she's a stiff! >> it was -- i put my hand on

her face and it was cold. >> he slipped. he just absolutely slipped. i don't think he could have said anything more incriminating if he had a hollywood scriptwriter writing it. >> his whole thing is to give as many details as possible to the lie. and the problem with that is the more lies you have, the more opportunity for reality to intersect with the lie and prove that you're lying. >> had you made plans to spend christmas with susan berman? >> yes. >> bobby had told her he was going to come to california, and she didn't know when he was going to arrive exactly. and she told friends, hey, we're gonna get together. we don't know exactly when. >> mr. lewin you may resume your cross-examination of mr. durst. >> in a coup-de-grace to me, they pull out susan's day planner. >> mr. durst, you recognize this to be susan's handwriting, correct? >> it might be susan's handwriting. >> she wrote everything down in there. everything was there, all of her appointments and even small

to-do tasks were in there as well. >> that's important, because durst insists he came out west just to take a pre-planned trip with berman up the california coast, while the prosecution had a totally different explanation. they were convinced that bob durst came west for one reason, to murder susan berman. >> we're going to go turn to the 22nd. this is the day that you originally were supposed to meet susie berman, is that correct? >> correct. >> do you see any notation on the 22nd, mr. durst, that references you? >> i do not specifically see anything describing the fact that i was going to arrive that evening. >> that calendar told the jury bob was lying. susan berman wasn't going up north with him on a trip. she was getting her hair done. >> mr. durst, this is my last

question. did you kill susan berman? >> no. >> but if you had, you would lie about it, correct? >> correct. >> nothing further. >> after a trial that lasted 24 months, the prosecution finally rested its case. >> this case can be summed up to you in nine simple words -- it was her or me. i had no choice. >> this man murdered susan berman. he murdered her. do not let this narcissistic psychopath get away with what he has done, what he did to susan berman. >> but one of the most powerful arguments from robert durst's legal team came during the closing arguments. dick deguerin looks at the jury and says to them, we do not convict folks based on made-for-tv movies.

and that was a reference to the media frenzy that surrounded "the jinx" documentary. >> nine days of beating up on a sick old man who can't defend himself. i've known him for 20 years. and i'm proud to stand before you and defend robert durst when almost no one in the world would do so. >> the jury was out a few days, reasonable amount of time. >> the verdict came in and durst was exposed to covid and couldn't be in the courtroom. >> but judge windham refuses to delay the reading of the jury's verdict for one more moment. >> the clerk will please read the verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant robert durst guilty of the crime of first-degree murder of susan berman. >> now to a court case that has garnered headlines across the country for decades.

overnight a jury convicted robert durst of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his best friend. >> and i remember i was at a gathering when i got the phone call about it. and i went into another room and just teared up. >> we are extremely gratified and appreciative of the verdict that the jury reached in this case. we think that it was supported by the evidence. >> once i saw the evidence for each of the three crimes, i felt like it was pretty clear and overwhelming. >> to me, he confessed three times. on tape when he said, killed them all. confession number two was when he admitted to writing the cadaver note. and number three, "it was either her or me. i had no choice." >> nobody saw bobby durst's reaction to the guilty verdict, but i can tell you what everybody else's reaction was -- hallelujah. finally. >> now, that's not the end of

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all rise. >> welcome back, ladies and gentlemen for the sentencing proceedings. it is the judgement and sentence of this court, mr. durst, that you be imprisoned in the state prison for the term prescribed by law, that is life in prison. >> robert durst was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, never to run away again. >> i think everybody felt justice was being served in the fact that he was tried, convicted, and that put closure on a lot for a lot of people. defendant robert durst is committed to the custody of the

sheriff for delivery to the department of corrections forthwith. >> i went to the mausoleum and was able to go visit susie and tell her that she can lay her head down and rest easy now. >> i still miss susan, and i feel so bad that she's gone. >> i think she would be validated by the people who came to stand up for her and who have been standing for her. >> kathie's brother, jim mccormack, has been hoping for justice for his sister. he felt a conviction in susan's case is like a conviction for my sister, too. they went to the westchester county prosecutor -- we want an indictment on kathie's murder. and they got it. >> a second-degree murder indictment tonight against real

estate heir, robert durst. >> one of durst's l.a. trial lawyers, chip lewis, called this charge fake news. >> things he said on the stand at the los angeles trial, we came to the conclusion that we did have enough to charge him with murder and take it to trial. >> but by the time this started to play out in the courts of new york, it was too late. >> breaking news, real estate heir and convicted murderer robert durst has died. the 78-year-old went into cardiac arrest and could not be revived. >> robert died after he was found guilty by a jury but before the appellate process could work its way through. >> so, in california, when a defendant dies and the case is still on appeal, the conviction is abated. it's vacated. it's gone. >> so the question is, was final justice ever really done? probably not for kathie durst's family. >> not knowing what happened to kathie over all these years, not knowing where her body is, not being able to give her a burial,

not having any closure. >> the most tragic part is that the family will never have those answers. >> it's been 40 years. i miss kathie. we would have had a good time growing old together. robert durst's first wife's family is still trying to hold durst accountable for her death with a lawsuit now as their final recourse. >> cathy mccormack's relatives are target his estate, which has an estimated value in the tens of millions. i'm amy robach. >> i'm david muir. for all of us here at abc news and "20/20," good night.

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