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Roberta Glass True Crime Report

King of the Cold Cases Tells All! Ep. 1 Prosecuting Robert Durst. Feat. DA John Lewin

Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Roberta Glass

True Crime

3.3628 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Deputy DA John Lewin has earned the moniker "King of the Cold Cases" for the seventeen cold cases he's investigated, tried and won beginning in 2002. It's his seventeenth cold case that rose Lewin to nationwide prominence- Robert Durst that won Lewin an aray of fans and detractors alike. In this episode DA Lewin speaks with Roberta aboout the challenges of trying the real estate heir and discusses how he broke a thirty year jinx.
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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.

0:05.3

I knew it. They'd been with their landscaper to Jusen. A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that? For materials, too high, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Deucon's got the lot. Like Terales, porcelain,

0:20.4

from only £22 per square metre.

0:22.3

Love it!

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT Don't waste time. Deuton's got the lot. Like Terales, porcel and paving from only 22 pounds per square meter.

0:22.4

Love it.

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.

0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.0

And the Evanses.

0:29.2

And the Patels.

0:46.2

You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime.

0:56.2

From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record.

1:12.9

Today's guest is iconoclastic Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John Lewin. Mr. Lewin grew up in Seattle,

1:19.1

Washington, and is a graduate of UC Irvine and UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

1:25.8

John Lewin has been trying cases in Los Angeles since the 1990s and has earned the moniker King of the Cold Cases, for the 17 cold cases he's investigated,

1:32.9

tried, and won beginning in 2002. It's Lewin's 17 Cold Case win, Robert Durst, the real estate

1:42.4

air and subject of the wildly popular documentary,

1:45.9

The Jing, that rose Lewin to nation-wide prominence.

1:49.6

Lewin tried Durst, along with Ethan Millius and Habib Billion, for the murder of Susan Berman,

1:55.5

in a lengthy, broadcasted trial, and it was this trial trial which showcased his oversized personality and thorough

2:03.4

examination of witnesses. His cross-examination of Robert Durst lasted nine days, that one Lewin

2:10.4

an array of fans and detractors alike. John Lewin has described himself as both

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