Robert Durst – the rich second generation killed and exonerated for three times, but was imprisoned for a documentary

Can the rich really do whatever they want?
Unfortunately, the answer may be yes in this case.
There is a billionaire in the United States, who is the eldest son successor of deSter Group, one of the five real estate tycoons in New York;
He is a disaster star, and people around him are missing or dead one after another;
He was charged with murder and was suspected of several homicide cases;
He has been at large for 36 years, and now he is 74 years old, still trapped in the whirlpool of public opinion;
On the eve of the last episode of his own documentary, the protagonist was arrested, and the key evidence came from the producer......
Douban score 9.1, after watching this HBO documentary"New York Disaster: The Life and Death of Robert Dexter",Make sure that when your back is cold,Of human nature's deep and have a better understanding ofTrapped in three homicide casesIn 2001, an extremely cruel case of headless corpse division happened in Galveston, USA. The victim was a 71-year-old man living alone, and the murderer was probably his neighbor, A dumb girl named "Dorothy gienell.

However, after investigation, the police found that the dumb old lady in the landlord's description was actually a man!
The man was soon captured. His real name isRobert duster.

It was originally a small case in a remote town, but becauseRobertHe is a "rich second generation", and all major media can't sit still.

However, the trend of the incident became more and more unexpected.
After paying the huge bail of 250,000 dollars, Robert ran away before the court session.

More than a month later,With $500 in the pocket and $37,000 in cash in the trunk,He was caught stealing sandwiches in a convenience store.
Robert's explanation is,"I don't know why I want to steal, maybe I just want to see if I can be found......"

A trial judge was asked "whether he believed Robert murdered Morris (the neighbor who was dismembered)" and commented: "When the killer dealt with the body,Cut well like a surgeon. Knowing how to use what tools on bones and muscles,It seems not the first time. This is quite terrible."

Robert even claimed in his testimony that he had unloaded the neighbor's body into eight pieces. In the end,I can already "swim in the blood".
When everyone thought that Robert's crime of murder could be confirmed and he should be punished by the law, there was another turning point in the plot.

Robert paid a lot of money to hire a famous lawyer, dieglin, to offend him. The lawyer took advantage of a perfect story: the bad neighbor shot and threatened, and Robert failed to kill people and had no choice but to split the body,The jury was persuaded to believe that his behavior was out of accident and justifiable defense.
In the end, Robert was sentenced to nine months for "improper handling of corpses.
The police officer in charge of the case cried as he said,"There are still many untold truths in this case......"

In court, Robert explained the crime:I didn't kill my friend, just dismembered him.

This result surprised everyone, and even the New York Times, which had always been serious, taunted the trial result on the front page, which was too absurd.

The reason why the media paid so much attention to him was not only because he was a rich second generation, or this murder case was too fierce, but also because this rich man who didn't change his face was also suspected of two other murders.
Nearly 20 years before the dismemberment, Robert once called the police and said,Her wife Catherine disappeared and released a high reward of $100,000.

Robert told the police that he sent his wife to the train station to the medical school that night.
The guard also confirmed that Catherine did not go out after entering the apartment; The Dean of the medical school where his wife was claimed to have received the call for leave.

When Robert appeared, he was always a poor husband who lost his wife but was suspected of committing a crime by a few voices. Everything seemed to have no flaw.
RobertI met Catherine, who was born in a working family, in 1971. At a party in New York, they fell in love at first sight, just like the real version of Cinderella met Prince Charming. They lived together in the remote suburbs of Vermont, jointly run a food store.
In 1973, under the pressure of my father,RobertBack to New York to take over the family's real estate business, and married Catherine.

A few years after marriage, becauseRobertHe refused to have a child and felt sick, and finally there were several domestic violence.
RobertShe began to torture Catherine in terms of language, emotion and body, and her marriage was going to break up.

Stills of The movie "The Lost Wife of Robert Durst" based on Catherine's case
Nearly 20 years have passed, as the case restarts to investigate, the truth gradually emerges.
Someone is selling itRobertOldhouse found Chamber.

 

Catherine filed for divorce before she disappeared,RobertShe disagreed with her requirement of property division.

More strangely, all the reports that proved that "Catherine went back to the apartment", that was, that was, Robert had no criminal conditions, all came fromRobert'sGroup.

All the signs in the film showed that Catherine had been killed before she got on the train. Robert claimed to send her to the station, and the testimony of the Guard and the Dean proved that she went back to the apartment alone,At the same time, it created the illusion that she disappeared the next day after returning to the apartment, which had nothing to do with Robert.
Because there was no conclusive evidence, Robert also said in front of the camera that he didn't know the whereabouts of his wife, and he had nothing to do with this matter.

When Catherine disappeared, a few months before she graduated from medical school, she soon realized her dream of becoming a pediatric.

At first, Catherine's family thought she was just hiding and would soon reappear to complete the divorce procedures.
But before long, they found outRobert willThe reward was reduced from $100,000 to $15,000. Catherine's apartment was rented and a criminal defense lawyer was hired.
Three weeks later,RobertShe threw away her clothes and books.

They finally realized that Catherine would not come back.
Catherine was declared dead in 2017, but her body has not yet been found.
In Catherine's case, there was a hidden key figure-the Mafia's daughterSusan Berman.
She is Robert's spokesman, or maybe called the "fake Catherine" in the medical school. She may have mastered something unknown to Robert.

When the police are going to visit her in Los AngelesAt that time, I suddenly received an anonymous letter with an address and the words "CADAVER (corpse).

When the police arrived at the scene, Susan had been shot at home.

Susan once told her friends before she was alive that her friendship with Robert was extraordinary.

Robert also said that Susan Berman was a close friend for many years, and they appreciated each other because of the similar experiences.

But after the murder, all kinds of signs still pointed to Robert.
There was no trace of being forced into the scene, and the articles were not scattered. The evidence showed that it was an acquaintance who committed the crime.

Susan told Robert not long before the incident,She will cooperate with the investigation and tell everything she knows.

Because of the economic crisis, Susan borrowed money everywhere. Knowing Robert's secret, she asked Robert to "lend her" Fifty thousand dollars.
This huge relief fund may put Robert at that time under threat.

However, the case was finally defined as a gangster infighting,Although Robert was highly suspected, he still escaped legal sanctions because of insufficient evidence.
A sympathetic "poor devil"
Robert once said, "in my life, I have endless money, which does not make me happy."
Such a person who seems to do everything evil is evaluated by the producer,"Anyone who knows his life story will feel sympathy."
The defense lawyer described him as,"Poor rich children".

Recalling the time when I was with my mother in my childhood,RobertThe answer is: "happy,happy,happy".

However, Robert fell from the happy heaven to hell at the age of seven-he would never forget the day when his mother passed away.
He recalled in a slow and calm tone: "One night, my father took me to the window and let me see my mother. When I saw my mother standing on the roof in pajamas, I waved to her. I didn't expect anything. I only knew that, Oh, Mom was there. I had to wave my hand to mom and then went back to bed to sleep."

After that, he watched his mother jump off the roof.
He always remembered the scene when his mother fell slowly. He knew that it was suicide, not the slip-down as adults said.
He shouted to the person who put the coffin, "put mom out of the box, don't put my mom in the box!"

From then on, he became rebellious, and his father who should have accompanied him did not make any compensation.
In 1953, a psychiatrist mentioned in his report to 10-year-old RobertProbably schizophrenia"; In high school,His classmates described him as a lonely person.
The lack of family affection in his childhood and complicated family relationship were one of the reasons for his indifference, craziness and strangeness.

RobertThe group owned 0.88 billion family assets at that time. At the expectation of his father, he was forced to give up the food store run with his first wife Catherine and began to take over the family business.

In the 1990 s, my father announced that he would hand over the group to Robert's younger brother Douglas to host it,Robert lost his heir status and no longer appeared in the office. He spent 2 million dollars a year leisurely.
But this decision made a disgust between Robert and his family.His younger brother Douglas was very afraid of Robert and even hired bodyguards.
This person who was expressionless when he was arrested and was calm when he was interviewed did not know what kind of psychological activities were hidden.

He didn't collapse or go mad.
But behind the surface calmness and "no harm to human beings and animals", there is the deep and shuddering human nature.
The angel's face is the devil
The birth of the film "New York Disaster" was "hosted" by Robert himself.
After his former case was shot into the movie "All Good Things" (All the beautiful Things) by American director Gerald,RobertI contacted the producer actively,I want the director to do a real interview for myself.

He had never been interviewed before. When asked about the reason this time, he said frankly,The advantage of accepting the interview is that the public can finally hear what he said by himself, hoping to tell it to those who are willing to accept it in their own way., different from the fact that the media published the content.

In the interview, he explained the winding and bizarre stories that happened to him, with plain tone, serious expression, peculiar blink and wink, impeccable reasons and explanations,Just like an innocent old man who has been misunderstood for many years, people can't help wanting to believe him.
The first few episodes of the documentary always gave people an illusion: Although it seemed that he just killed someone, he was too poor to be hated.

The day before the finale of the documentary was broadcast, Robert was arrested again on suspicion of first-degree murder, and the film crew did not accept the interview because they wanted to assist in the investigation.
The finale was broadcast, and critical evidence appeared.
After Susan, a "bosom friend", was killed, the anonymous letter received by the police could not be analyzed at that time.However, the program group found another letter when sorting out the materials, which isRobertSent to Susan.
The handwriting on the envelope is very similar to that of the year.
The conclusion drawn by the document marking officer is that the tiny jitter in the notes"It is unique to someone and only belongs to this person ".
Moreover, the name of Beverly Hills Beverly,The two letters were mistakenly combined into "Beverley".

RobertWhen alone, he always muttered to himself:"I didn't lie on purpose".

This habitual self-talk may be his only flaw.
Once he went to the bathroom after the interview, but forgot to turn off the microphone. Two years later, the program group discovered the shocking secret in this recording.
Robert whispered to himself,It sounds like speaking in different tones of many people, and there is no strong logic between words.
"He is right...... I am wrong......", "want to burp", "I can't answer that question"......
After whispering some gossips, he said:
"God, what a hell did I create."
"Of course, all of them were killed."

The last recording seems to come from the monologue of the Devil, which makes the spine feel cold.
Robert has clear logic and careful thinking. His dark pupils are like a dark black hole, showing the sense of superiority and control of everything.

Behind his story which is more bizarre than the novel, there is no doubt that it is a lonely soul.
"Shadow ego" is a kind of human nature trait and an animal instinct in spirit.It germinates at the beginning of life, hides under the mask of personality, and nourishes trauma and lies.
Back to the beginning, he was just the poor boy who lacked family affection and longed for love. The alienation of family members and the stimulation of life made human nature move towards an uncontrollable direction. Robert became hated and sympathized, scared and couldn't help peeping at his Devil's heart.
Complex human nature has a charm of mystery, but it may also be the source of fatal destruction.