Only 2 1\/2 years ago, Robert Durst (seen here in a Houston courtroom in 2014) looked remarkably hardier than he does today. (Image: Pat Sullivan\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSusan Berman met Durst while living in New York and working as a journalist. The millionaire largely inherited his fortune from his father’s Manhattan-based commercial real estate corporation. Susan also inherited a small fortune, as the mob paid her $4.3 million before she was 30 to divest her interests received from her father.<\/strong><\/p>\nDurst and Berman were such close friends that he walked her down the aisle during her wedding to a man 13 years her junior (she was 38 to his 25) with the unusual name of “Mister” Margulies. Her husband would later die of a heroin overdose.<\/p>\n
At the time of her death, Berman was working on a project titled Sin City<\/em>, a drama for Showtime that was billed as the premium cable network’s answer to HBO’s massive hit series, The Sopranos<\/em>.<\/p>\nFateful Mutterings<\/b><\/h2>\n Durst’s wife Kathie went missing in 1982 and was never found. Eighteen years later, his longtime friend and confidant Berman was murdered.<\/p>\n
In 2001, he was acquitted of killing and dismembering Morris Black, an elderly neighbor who Durst claimed he’d shot in self-defense and then dismembered in a fit of panic. He’d\u00a0managed to remain a free man throughout it all, and lived a relatively private life. That all changed when he agreed to sit down with filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, however.<\/p>\n
\nIn a line that was no help to his claims of innocence for the deaths and disappearances of his wife, neighbor, and Berman, during a bathroom break from the HBO taping of The Jinx<\/em>, Durst was heard mumbling to himself, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nHBO and viewers took the comment as a confession, but Durst later explained he was high on meth during the interview. He continues to maintain his innocence in the matter of Berman’s murder.<\/p>\n
In March of 2015, police moved in on Durst and arrested him in New Orleans “as a result of investigative leads and additional evidence that [had] come to light in the past year.” They charged him with first-degree murder in the matter of Susan’s Berman’s killing. If convicted, he could potentially face the death penalty.<\/p>\n
Durst will be back in court for a conditional hearing in February, after Deputy District Attorney John Lewin asked the judge to allow recorded pre-trial witness testimony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Susan Berman is a household name to anyone who watched HBO’s The Jinx, the six-part documentary that linked real estate heir Robert Durst to the alleged murders of three individuals dating back to 1982. Berman, the daughter of mobster David “Davie the Jew” Berman, was murdered execution-style on Christmas Eve in 2000 at her home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":43213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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