there was no way cathie durst got on that train and no one heard from her, you know, she disappeared ace. >> once more, she says cathie told a close friend something ominous the day she vanished. >> to her best friends at the time, if anything happens to me, bobby did it. py wife going on a train ride into manhattan. >> reporter: as whispers turned to durst, so did the police. even as detectives mulligan to doubt further's version of events, one person stood by him, even had his back, a self appointed pitbull spin doctor, his close friend, susan berman. >> susan, several wagons, make sure he's okay. look out for him. susan took charge. >> and susan told anyone that cared to listen that bobby had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance and detectives couldn't prove her wrong. nypd was hitting a brick wall with a lack of cooperation from robert durst and absent of a >> it was certainly my opinion at that time that he certainly could have had something to do with the disappearance, be but you can't go about accusing someone like that unless you can report it. >> reporter: so it remai

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i understand the need for cathy durst's brother to feel that way. e will be closure, but i don't think it will be provided by robert durst. has he wanted to get caught? is that what this is about? >> let's talk about that. at one point, the bathroom confessional he says i want this. there's the question of why he approached two documentary filmmakers to tell his side of the story knowing that it would just open up past and potentially settled history and then there's the weird things he's been doing for years. the public urination, the various spectacles he has made of himself. is that a cry for attention in some way? >> it may be a cry for attention. i would hesitate to say it is an effort to get caught and to bring all of this to an end. i think for whatever reason durst likes dancing on a razor's edge. at times, he was dressed like a woman and kept to himself. but at other times he would be out at drag clubs and be on the sea wall purchasing drugs. finally after he gets a new lease on life, when his attorney got him off while nonetheless admitting

and moreover what complicates things in the case of cathy durst there was marital strooef or divorce.ere there is not an idea of why he would have killed the young woman. but no one doubts he could be capable of it. >> more evidence of the jinx ahead. thank you. >> senate minority leader accused of pressuring in the las vegas casinno. is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. if a denture were to be put under a microscope we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher brighter denture every day. shopping online... ...is as easy as it gets. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers carpenters and even piano tuners... were just as simple? thanks to angie's list now it is. start shopping online... ...from a list of top rated providers. visit angieslist.com today. >> you, i

a few months after new york authorities re-opened the missing person case of durst's first wife cathyess than two weeks before durst's friend susan berman was killed in los angeles. after the wedding, durst gave his wife power of attorney over his money. his wife came to the rescue ten months later when he was arrested in texas for killing and dismembering morris black. >> bail was set at $250,000 which was a fortune for somebody who seemed like a drifter. the money comes through because in another twist, he not only had a secret life, he had a secret wife. >> robert durst, not guilty. >> reporter: in 2003 durst was acquitted of the murder charge. the judge in that case is now telling "inside edition," durst left a gruesome package on her doorstep after the trial. >> it was this perfectly clean and preserved cat head cut up by someone who knew what they were doing laying right there. i strongly believe that was robert durst. >> reporter: pretty incredible stuff there. durst's wife did not respond to our request for comment while durst's lead defender sat down with a local tv station.

durst. he has long been charged and never charged with the death of his wife cathy.iend was found dead in her apartment. he was charged and acquitted in the death of his neighborhood. he admitted to mismembering morris black's body but he was acquitted of murdering him. he said he only shot mr. black in self-defense. he approached filmmakers and asked if he could work with them to tell his story. he agreed to parties nit a documentary they called "the jinx." that led prosecutors to reopen their case in the death of susan berman. she was shot to death in her los angeles apartment in 2000. hours before the final episode was set to air, he was arrested in new orleans by fbi agents. in the final episode that aired last night with him in custody, they explain handwriting evidence they found that they think may link robert durst to suzanne berman's death. they confronted him. they also played this audio that i will play here in just a moment that was recorded after the interview while mr. durst was in the bathroom, off camera, and still wearing his microphone. >> did he me

durst marrying his baby sister cathy mccormick. her. she was planning to divorce him. january, 1982 they have a fight. and she vanishes. immediately, mccormick suspects durst. we spoke last week just two days before durst's arrest. >> there's too many you know, subtle he clues and bits of circumstantial evidence that were adding up to a preponderance of you're guilty. >> one of these subtle clues, durst takes four days to report her missing to homicide detective, mike struck. struck never nails his prime suspect. >> keeps coming back to the fact that we never found her body. we had a crime scene. >> no evidence. >> no evidence no crime scene. >> the case grows cold until 2000 when investigators reopen it. this time the millionaire flees new york to this rundown apartment in galveston, texas. hiding out, cross-dressing and posing as a mute woman. for months he is speaking to virtually no one, except this woman, susan berman. durst and berman were decades-long friends. she was his con if fidanteconfidante corresponding by letters and

cathy's passing. >> reporter: in the jinx a stunning revelation. in a storage box, the stepson comes across a letter durst sent to berman shortly before she died. durst's handwriting and the killer's note to police they bear remarkable similarities down to the misspelling of beverly. on camera, he appears unfazed. he then walks away to the restroom. his mic still on. the camera records as he talks to himself. >> you're caught. killed them all, of course. >> reporter: durst's attorney pledges his client will be vindicated. >> he didn't kill susan berman. he's ready to end all the rumor and speculation and have a trial. >>> let's go back to israel where benjamin netanyahu hasnow now cast his ballot. he thought it would be an easy win for him. >> he was proven very wrong. >> he is now fighting for his very survival. the last opinion polls came out on friday there's an israeli law that says you cannot publish any polls four days before any election. but it did have netanyahu behind herzog. we're waiting for herzog to come out and vote. >> and he surprised a lot of people with that comment that there will not

cathie happened. and then you re-opened the case. >> just to bring everybody up to date, she disappeared, the wife of robert durst disappeared in '82 wasn't the d.a. until '94. i re-opened it in, like, 1999. >> right. >> you decided first to do this film with ryan gosling. "all good things." why? >> you know, mark and i grew up in that part of the world. we were interested in this man's story. and we had followed it in the media. and when we learn more and more about bob, we found that there was this beautiful love story that had proceeded all of the burlesque stories about bob dressing as a woman and all that stuff that he had met this beautiful girl from sort of the other side of the coin from himself, he met somebody who was this lovely person who love td m for him and thought, wouldn't it be interesting to tell the love story of how that developed? as we got deeper and deeper into it, we started to do our own investigation and discovered a lot more than we had originally known. >> all right. so, i have to smile when you say love story, because i first became familiar with the case and i was investigating it as a homicide. but,