The dying of Robert Durst, the tragic, creepy and ridiculously rich New Yorker who was forged out of his massively wealthy household’s real-estate empire for urinating right into a waste-paper basket, leaves an everlasting thriller buried, probably ceaselessly: What occurred to Kathie Durst?
In his 78 years on earth, Durst lived like a demented pauper, generally dressed as a mute lady, roaming the nation on an alleged killing spree. He was a suspect in his spouse Kathie’s 1982 disappearance from their Westchester County dwelling and was tried and acquitted in 2003 on grounds of self-defense for the gunshot slaying and dismemberment of an aged neighbor in Galveston, Texas, two years earlier, which he freely admitted to finishing up.
After that killing, he lived for a time on the run, carrying tens of hundreds of dollars in money, solely to be arrested for shoplifting a sandwich. However he was as fortunate as he was low-cost. Robert proved he was coated in Teflon, waltzing out of the Texas courthouse, a free man.
His freedom unnerved his personal youthful brother, Douglas Durst, whom Robert had hated since his father put in him as the top of the New York Metropolis-based Durst Group in 1994 after Robert’s weird and gross habits pressured him to move him over.
“I got here again from trip and I used to be placing my hand into the wastepaper basket and it was coated by liquid. It was urine,” Douglas instructed me in a uncommon interview in 2015. Ick.
“It was I who requested the employees, they usually mentioned my brother did it regularly,” mentioned
Douglas, now 77. He maintains his bro tried to kill him, too.
“Given the chance, he would kill me, sure.
“If that makes me a pussy, then I’m a pussy,” he mentioned. Yikes.
He was referring to an incident in 2001. As I reported solely, Robert was seething with rage over his little brother’s ascent within the household enterprise. Within the midst of operating from the legislation, he tried to even the rating.
Robert drove to his sibling’s home in Katonah, NY, and parked his automotive. He was armed and, Douglas believes, able to kill.
However he drove off with out incident.
This prompted Douglas to rent a bodyguard – which led Robert to trash him as a “pussy” in a taped deposition he gave after his seize, which was excerpted within the HBO docuseries “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”
The unmanly slur clearly stung.
It appears the Durst Household Drama enraged Robert, who has lengthy exhibited sociopathic or psychopathic habits, whilst he denied involvement in getting rid of Kathie. Within the documentary about his life, he described his father, Seymour Durst as distant and chilly, and claimed to be traumatized after, at age 7, he witnessed ”Mommy” – Bernice Durst — both leaping or falliing to her dying from their Westchester home’s roof.
Douglas insists none of that is true.
“My father beloved him,” Douglas instructed me. “Truly, he was my father’s favourite.”
He additionally mentioned that on the he evening Bernice Durst died in 1950, Robert was not on the household’s home however moderately at a neighbor’s place, together with Douglas and two different siblings.
On Monday, he issued a short assertion about his brother, who died naturally from a litany of well being woes inside a California jail.
“Bob lived a tragic, painful and tragic life,” Douglas said. “We hope his dying brings some closure to these he harm.”
However what about Kathie?
Westchester authorities indicted Robert Durst in November for the homicide of Kathleen Durst practically 40 years in the past. This got here simply days after he was sentenced to life in jail with out parole for the 2000 homicide of shut pal Susan Berman in Los Angeles. Prosecutors keep that he shot Berman to dying at level clean vary to stop her from telling what she knew about Kathie’s slaying. Lastly, it appeared Robert Durst would face the music.
However Durst died earlier than this might occur. Kathie’s stays had been by no means discovered. There are not any identified witnesses to her demise.It appears justice delayed is justice denied.
It appears Robert Durst received away away with homicide.
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