Originally, I just found a few high-rated documentaries on the player, but I was shocked by this documentary. My previous impression of HBO was limited to many heavy-tasting and restricted-level American dramas. I didn’t expect that there would be such a thing. A high-quality documentary. Six episodes were completed in one go. Both the film source bilibili and Tencent. I recommend the version translated by everyone at station b, which is much better than the one translated by Tencent. The content of the 6 episodes is very informative, so I swiped in case miss anything several times. The following is the information from Wikipedia. The English version is rich in content, and the Chinese version has very little information. The following is from this The English translation of scum involves some personal information about Robert Durst that is not in the film and the information involved in the case. Everyone will just look at it.
Early experiences
Robert Durst’s father, Semodest, has four children in total. Robert is the eldest son of the family. There are two younger brothers Douglas, Thomas and a younger sister Wendy. In the film Robert mentioned that when he was seven years old , His father took him and witnessed his mother's suicide by falling from a building. But his brother Douglas, the current president of the Durst Group, denied this statement in an interview with the New York Times in 2015. In 1953, when Robert was 10 years old, he and his brother Douglas had a psychological evaluation together because of the disharmony between the brothers. At that time, the psychologist marked his "personality classification and even the possibility of schizophrenia" in Robert's evaluation report. .
Robert grew up in Scarsdale, New York City. His high school classmates in Scarsdale described him as a very withdrawn person. After graduating from high school, Robert entered Lehigh University and also participated in the school hockey team and campus newspaper. After obtaining a degree in economics from Lehigh University, Robert applied for a doctoral program at the University of California, Los Angeles and met Susan Berman there, but for no reason he did not continue studying, instead he returned to New York in 1969 and pressed His father's expectations entered the family business and went to work until his brother Douglas left after being selected as the company's successor in 1990. This family appointment caused the relationship between Robert and family members to deteriorate.
personal life
On April 12, 1973, on the 30th birthday of Robert, he and Catherine were married. Their marriage lasted until 1990 (8 years after Kathie disappeared). He used the phrase "spousal abandonment? (Professional term will not be translated) "Divorce in the name of. On December 11, 2000, not long after Susan Berman was killed, he married his current wife Deborah. But according to the New York Times report, they only shared an apartment on Fifth Avenue and never really lived together in the name of a husband and wife. Robert once told his sister the reason for this marriage: he wanted to commit suicide and hoped that Deborah could inherit his inheritance after suicide. Deborah is now living with Steven I. Holm, an attorney from Robert's defense team. (Repost of scum: Regarding Deborah, she feels that she is strong and temperamental in the film, and some brief introductions of her will be added later)
Robert has many false identities. These false identities buy cars, rent apartments, and apply for credit cards. He also has his own scanner, photocopier and laminator to make fake documents. A former Durst Group employee told Newsweek that “he accidentally discovered why Robert was allowed to make a forged driver’s license”. Robert also has a lot of business-related private mailbox usernames that are very similar: Woofing LLC, WoofWoof LLC, and Igor-Fayette Inc (Remark: It seems that the usernames are all related to his dog). . . In the early 1980s, Robert had 7 Alaskan malamutes, each named Igor. According to his brother Douglas, all the dogs died of mysterious unknown causes. In December 2014, after the film was broadcast, Douglas told reporters in the New York Times, "In retrospect, he thinks that Robert used these dogs to practice anatomy and then dismembered his wife." Robert was once recorded saying that he missed Igor and his brother Douglas. Regarding the statement that he had raised 7 dogs named Igor, Robert responded that he had only raised 3 dogs, one was crushed to death, and the other was swallowed with an apple core and died in the subsequent operation.
Emotional experience
In late 1981, during his marriage with Catherine, Robert had an affair with the married Prudence Farrow for three years Director Woody Allen's wife, Roman Polanski's famous movie "Rosemary's Baby", has appeared in Agatha Christie's classic film "The Tragedy on the Nile"). In January 1982, a few months before Catherine's disappearance, Prudence called Catherine and said that she had decided to end her relationship with Robert because she hoped that Robert would be with her wholeheartedly, and Robert obviously couldn't do it. After Robert murdered his neighbor Morris Black in 2003, Prudence contacted law enforcement and expressed concern that his safety might be threatened by Robert, because Robert had always held a grudge against her decision to end her lover relationship with Catherine three days before Catherine's disappearance.
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The case
For several cases involving Robert: the disappearance of his first wife, Catherine, and the suspected murder of Susan Berman and Maurice Black, the police have interrogated and searched him face to face. In the case of Morris Black, he betrayed the innocence.
1. The disappearance of ex-wife Catherine
Robert and his ex-wife Catherine met in the fall of 1971. Catherine was named Casey and was a dental hygienist (dental nurse?) at the time. After dating twice, durst invited Catherine to his home in Vermont, when he opened a green food store in Vermont. Catherine finally went to Vermont in January 1972. At the same time, Robert's father Seymour has been urging Robert to return to New York to return to his family business. In the end, Robert and Catherine returned to Manhattan, New York, and married in April 1973. (Reposted by scum: According to the group photo of the two of them in the film, I believe they really loved each other at that time)
On the eve of Catherine's disappearance, she was already a freshman of the Einstein School of Medicine, and within a few months she could successfully get her graduation degree. After graduation, Catherine plans to become a pediatrician. On January 31, 1982, Catherine appeared for the last time at a dinner for her friends in Newton, Connecticut. On the same day, Catherine visited her good friend by accident. Her friend found that Catherine was depressed and wore a red sweatpants. This made her friend feel a little strange, because in her friend's impression, Catherine usually wears better. After receiving a call from her husband, Catherine bid farewell to her friends and set off for South Salem. Although there was a quarrel with her husband later, Robert faced police inquiries and insisted that he took his wife on the train back to New York, and then he had a few drinks with his neighbors, and later on the phone with his wife who had returned to New York. Robert told the documentary director: He said that just to let the matter pass as soon as possible.
After Catherine left her friend's residence, she asked her friend to meet at a bar in Manhattan called "Liongate", but she did not show up. A few days later, her friend started to feel strange, and then called the police. Robert also filed missing persons with the police. The guard of the apartment where the couple lived said: On February 1st, after Catherine appeared for the last time, he saw Catherine return to the apartment. At the same time, the guard said that he only saw Catherine from the back, and could not be 100% sure that it was her. . Catherine went to Bronx Hospital to treat her facial bruises three weeks before she disappeared. She told her friend that Robert had beaten her, but she did not want to sue him for the matter. Catherine offered Robert a $250,000 compensation for divorce. Robert cancelled Catherine's credit card, removed her from their public account, and refused to pay her medical school tuition.
When Catherine disappeared, Robert had been dating Mia Farrow's sister Predence for three years and had separated from Catherine. Robert offered a reward of $100,000 for his wife's disappearance, and then reduced the reward to $15,000. Soon after, Robert was witnessed cleaning up her wife's daily necessities. He denied this statement. When Catherine’s sister and her friends heard that she was missing, they broke into Catherine’s villa in the country, hoping to find her. After searching, they found Catherine’s letter and none of the letters were opened. At this time, they felt Fearful, he left. After Catherine disappeared, Robert told the police that the last time he received a call from Catherine was from their Manhattan villa. The last time Catherine saw Catherine was at Katonah Railway Station. Catherine planned to take the 21:45 train back from there. Manhattan. At the same time, Robert said that on February 4, a teacher at Catherine Medical School called him to say that Catherine had taken a week of sick leave on the phone on February 1. The day after receiving the call from the school, he reported missing to the police. The police believe that there are too many contradictions in Robert's story.
Catherine's family firmly believes that Catherine is dead, and hope that the police believe that Catherine is dead. Catherine's mother, Anna, once demanded $100 million in compensation from Robert. Catherine's parents are now dead. Catherine's younger sister, Mary, also thinks that Robert killed her sister. New York police reopened the investigation in private in 1999 and searched Robert's residence in South Salem for the first time. The investigation was made public in November 2000.
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2. The murder of Susan Berman
On December 24, 2000, Susan Berman, an old friend who had publicly defended Robert after Catherine's disappearance, was found shot dead at his home in Benedictine, California. Not long before, Robert had transferred $50,000 to Susan. It is reported that Robert appeared in northern California a few days before Susan was killed, and flew back to New York from San Francisco a few days before Susan's body was found. Although Robert admitted to the New York police that he had recently given Susan US$25,000 and gave Susan a testimony concerning Robert’s missing wife in 1982, Robert refused to answer the question about Susan’s murder. Further issues of the case.
In a 2005 testimony, Robert said that Susan had called herself a few days before her murder, saying that the Los Angeles police wanted to communicate with Susan about the disappearance of Catherine. However, the Guardian's case study team questioned Robert's claim that the New York police had contacted Susan by phone, and that the then Winchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro had arranged for Susan to be interviewed. In 2000, Robert moved to Galveston , Texas , dressed as a women's clothing to avoid police investigation. On October 31, 2000, Robert secretly learned that the police would restart the disappearance of Catherine, and immediately decided to start his escape career. Susan’s biographer Cathy Scott claimed that Robert murdered Susan because Susan knew too well about Catherine’s disappearance.
3. Morris Black's dismemberment case
On October 9, 2001, shortly after the body of Robert's neighbor, Morris Black, was found in Galveston Bay, Robert was arrested by the police. He was released the next day after paying a bail of $300,000. However, Robert did not appear at the hearing on November 16, and he was wanted by the police for escaping bail. On November 30th, Robert was arrested in the Wegmans supermarket in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was arrested for stealing bread, band-aids and newspapers, but in fact he had 500 US dollars in his pocket at the time. . . . The police searched the car he rented. There were 37,000 dollars in the car, two guns, the driver's license of the killed Morris Black, and marijuana. The police discovered that he was going to Gilberte Najamy's house! (Gilberte Najamy is a good friend of Catherine, who is the angry fat aunt in the film. The fat aunt has publicly accused Roberto of the murder of Catherine for many years). While on the run, Robert also followed his brother Douglas with his gun to the home of his brother Douglas in Katona, New York. For Robert's allegations in Pennsylvania, he hired defense lawyer John Waldron , but he was eventually arrested in Texas.
After the translation is here, Loulou found that Wikipedia has updated Robert’s latest developments in 2019. The translation of the previous cases will be temporarily put aside to share the latest news with you.
On March 14, 2015, Robert was arrested by Los Angeles police on suspicion of murdering Susan Berman in New Orleans. On November 4, 2016, he was transferred to California and was arraigned by Los Angeles police for first-degree murder shortly thereafter. The hearing was originally scheduled for October 2017, but was later postponed to April 2018. The hearing was finally completed in October 2018, and the Los Angeles Court Senior Judge Mark Windham ruled that there was sufficient evidence to prove that Robert shot and killed Susan Berman.
On January 16, 2019, Judge Windham arranged the case for trial and set the time for September 3, 2019. At the same time, the court stated that the prosecutor had evidence of Robert's suspected murder of Morris Black. The prosecutor will try to link the death of Susan Berman with the disappearance of Catherine in order to determine Robert's motive. Prosecutors said that they could use physical evidence from the Morris Black case in Texas in the trial. Colleagues also said that the two murders of Morris Black and Susan Portman seemed to be "intertwined" to some extent. Robert was charged with crimes including murder of witnesses in the case and murder with a gun.
In May 2019, Robert’s defense attorney claimed 2 handwriting samples (the anonymous letter informing Susan Berman’s body written in cadaver mailed to the Los Angeles Police Department and Robert’s letter to Susan in 1999) and Robert’s 2015 Other evidence obtained during the arrest in the New Orleans hotel was obtained illegally. Robert's defense attorney also claimed that this act violated the Fourth Amendment. If this defense is established, then the police search of Robert's hotel and the physical evidence obtained at that time were illegal.
On May 8, 2019, the Los Angeles prosecutor signed the affidavit (for motion) (this motion scum replied that it did not understand that it was the prosecutor’s prosecution of motion or Robert’s motive for the crime. Please understand that the level is limited). Los Angeles prosecutor John Lewin said that the producer and investigator of HBO TV’s "Scourge of New York" remembered that the Los Angeles Police Department was plotting a conspiracy theory to allow Robert to incriminate himself and get the media’s greatest attention when he was arrested. And ratings. However, Robert completely denied the two most important factors that led to his arrest: the evidence found in the hotel he rented and the documentary interview. The law enforcement agency discovered that Robert was preparing to flee the country after the alleged murder of Susan Portman spread across the country on television. From the perspective of law enforcement agencies, signing the affidavit at this time is an absolutely necessary measure to prevent a murderer who has been at large for more than 30 years from fleeing the country with impunity.
On May 17, 2019, Los Angeles judge Judge Mark Windham approved Robert’s defense team’s request to postpone the murder trial. The latest trial was postponed to January 13, 2020. Taking into account the concerns of the defense lawyer team about the huge amount of evidence in the case and the conflict in the time schedule of the defender, the authorities approved the delay in review and approval.
To be continued. . . .
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