"new york times" reporter charles bagli has covered the durst real estate empire for more than three decades. and when kathie vanished, said bagli, bob's protective friend susan berman-- a name you've probably heard of-- became his unofficial spokesperson. and susan would call back and say, well, bob's really not feeling right, right now. i'm going to handle a lot of this. keith morrison: bob himself was, pretty much, incommunicado then, but we have obtained this-- his own account, his version of things, which he wrote later. here's what he wrote about kathie's disappearance. "after my wife, kathie, left, my compulsive use of alcohol, drugs, and food changed from an infrequent problem to a daily event." he didn't come in to work for about two years. keith morrison: later, when bob began showing up at work again, sporadically, he wasn't anything like a buttoned-up executive. he enjoyed smoking pot in a social situation, burping, and farting because it disturbed people and he liked to watch their reactions. keith morrison: right. so these stories about misbehaving, peeing in a wastebask