It seems some serial killers want to get caught. Or they really like playing with fire.
On Saturday, 1%er and suspected triple-killer Robert Durst of NYC's famous Durst real-estate family was arrested in New Orleans to be extradicted to Los Angeles on a murder charge.
Durst's story is so bizarre, it has inspired a feature film ("All Good Things"), two separate Law & Order episodes and finally a six-part HBO documentary ("The Jinx") that concluded last night.
To summarize, Durst's first wife Kathie went "missing" in New York in 1982 and has never been found. His friend and one-time defender Susan Berman, a mobster's daughter, was shot execution-style in Los Angeles in 2000 shortly after NY prosecutors reopened the case of the missing wife and wanted to reinterview Miss Berman. Durst was proven to be in California at the time of Berman's murder. It is this crime for which Durst has finally been arrested
But the third killing may be the weirdest. In 2001 Durst, living under an alias, killed and dismembered his neighbor Morris Black in Galveston, Texas. Durst would occasionally pretend to be a mute woman (this cross-dressing stuff played prominent roles in both L&O episodes). After body parts in black garbage bags were found floating in Galveston Bay, the police found in one of them a newspaper with Black's home address on the mailing label, which is how they found the crime scene. Black's mysterious "female neighbor" had fled the state, but the cops eventually found that "she" was indeed Robert Durst.
Why was a newspaper with an address to the crime scene in one of the bags?
Durst got caught on the East Coast when, and I'm not kidding here, he got arrested for shoplifting a sandwich in a convenience store. At the time, he had $500 in his wallet and tens of thousands of USD in the trunk of his car. WTF?!
After getting shipped back to Texas to stand trial, he got acquitted (!!) when his lawyers successfully argued self-defense. The head of Morris Black has never been found. Chances are it didn't go into the bay with the other body parts. Would be fascinating to see if it has a bullet hole in the back like Susan Berman's head. Hard to argue self-defense when the bullet goes in the back rather than the front.
But the LA district attorneys now think they have enough evidence to go to trial, hence Durst's latest arrest.
But it looks like Durst wanted to get caught ... or am I overanalyzing this whackjob?
BTK was free and clear until he came out of hiding to criticize a book that was written about him. Then he got caught.
Ted Bundy deliberately moved from Colorado to Florida (where he was caught and executed) precisely because Florida at that time had the highest rate of executions.
Do these guys have secret death wishes, or do they just like playing with fire?
On Saturday, 1%er and suspected triple-killer Robert Durst of NYC's famous Durst real-estate family was arrested in New Orleans to be extradicted to Los Angeles on a murder charge.
Durst's story is so bizarre, it has inspired a feature film ("All Good Things"), two separate Law & Order episodes and finally a six-part HBO documentary ("The Jinx") that concluded last night.
To summarize, Durst's first wife Kathie went "missing" in New York in 1982 and has never been found. His friend and one-time defender Susan Berman, a mobster's daughter, was shot execution-style in Los Angeles in 2000 shortly after NY prosecutors reopened the case of the missing wife and wanted to reinterview Miss Berman. Durst was proven to be in California at the time of Berman's murder. It is this crime for which Durst has finally been arrested
But the third killing may be the weirdest. In 2001 Durst, living under an alias, killed and dismembered his neighbor Morris Black in Galveston, Texas. Durst would occasionally pretend to be a mute woman (this cross-dressing stuff played prominent roles in both L&O episodes). After body parts in black garbage bags were found floating in Galveston Bay, the police found in one of them a newspaper with Black's home address on the mailing label, which is how they found the crime scene. Black's mysterious "female neighbor" had fled the state, but the cops eventually found that "she" was indeed Robert Durst.
Why was a newspaper with an address to the crime scene in one of the bags?
Durst got caught on the East Coast when, and I'm not kidding here, he got arrested for shoplifting a sandwich in a convenience store. At the time, he had $500 in his wallet and tens of thousands of USD in the trunk of his car. WTF?!
After getting shipped back to Texas to stand trial, he got acquitted (!!) when his lawyers successfully argued self-defense. The head of Morris Black has never been found. Chances are it didn't go into the bay with the other body parts. Would be fascinating to see if it has a bullet hole in the back like Susan Berman's head. Hard to argue self-defense when the bullet goes in the back rather than the front.
But the LA district attorneys now think they have enough evidence to go to trial, hence Durst's latest arrest.
But it looks like Durst wanted to get caught ... or am I overanalyzing this whackjob?
BTK was free and clear until he came out of hiding to criticize a book that was written about him. Then he got caught.
Ted Bundy deliberately moved from Colorado to Florida (where he was caught and executed) precisely because Florida at that time had the highest rate of executions.
Do these guys have secret death wishes, or do they just like playing with fire?
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), stupid shoplifting and even an off-camera confession, just like in the documentary. They should be made to pay Durst's legal fees, considering how much they've made off him. 