[140] In 2006, Durst gave Charatan around $20 million of his $65 million trust settlement.

Robert Durst.

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Another piece in The New York Times reported that the marriage began a downward spiral in 1976, when Robert forced his wife to have an abortion because he didn't want children. [154][155][156], In July 2014, Durst was arrested after turning himself in to police following an incident at a Houston CVS drugstore in which he allegedly exposed himself without provocation and urinated on a rack of candy.

The day after Durst received the call from McCormack's medical school, he reported her as missing. The murder charge against Durst includes the special circumstance allegations of lying in wait and killing a witness to a crime. On December 24, 2000, Berman was found murdered execution-style in her home in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California, after her neighbors called the police to report that her back door was open and her three fox terriers were loose. On October 9, 2001, Durst was arrested in Galveston shortly after body parts belonging to his elderly neighbor, Morris Black, were found floating in Galveston Bay. [22][19][20], Although the couple argued and fought that evening,[17] Durst maintained that he put his wife on a commuter train to New York City at Katonah station, had a drink with a neighbor, and spoke to his wife at their Manhattan apartment by telephone later that evening.

David Marks, the character based on Durst, was portrayed by Ryan Gosling. The HBO docu-series The Jinx brought the strange life of real estate scion Robert Durst to the mainstream, including the unsolved disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst. [19] McCormack was last seen by someone other than Durst the evening of January 31, 1982,[20][21] when she appeared unexpectedly at a dinner party thrown by her friend Gilberte Najamy in Newtown, Connecticut. You're caught! Durst's lawyers also claim there was a Fourth Amendment violation that would exclude the New Orleans evidence and that the search of his hotel room was unlawful.

The judge also vacated the thirteen orders of protection his family members had taken out on him.
His defense team argued at trial that the diagnosis explained his behavior.

[11], Durst attended Scarsdale High School, where classmates described him as a loner.

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[137], Durst has had a number of significant medical issues since 2015, including major surgeries for esophageal cancer, having a shunt installed in his brain for hydrocephalus, and cervical spinal fusion. The Missing Wife of Robert Durst Before her disappearance, McCormack was reportedly last seen on January 31, 1982 at a friend’s party in Newtown, Connecticut.
He was right. [70][58][71][72], In addition to a .38 revolver loaded with four live rounds and one spent shell casing, police recovered five ounces of marijuana, Durst's birth certificate and passport, maps of Louisiana, Florida, and Cuba,[68][73] a "flesh-toned" latex mask,[70] the fake Texas ID used to check into the hotel, a new cellphone, and cash totaling $42,631.

During that time he received $2 million a year from the trust. El Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles lo detuvo al día siguiente, y actualmente está a la espera de juicio.[1]​[2]​. How long were Kathie and Robert Durst married?