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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

MURDER IN BEVERLY HILLS-Cathy Scott

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2013

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Growing up, Susan Berman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas Mob royalty, the daughter of a Mob boss who ran the Flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy. But halfway through her childhood, dream exploded. Susan's father died without warning during a routine surgery. Next, Susie Berman's mother died by her own hand the next year when she overdosing on drugs. Susie was whisked away from the only home she'd ever known, parentless and living with an uncle and his family and sent away to boarding school. Fast forward to college where Susan met her soul mate, Robert Durst. They became best friends and each other's confidants. Durst went to work for his wealthy father at the Durst Organization in Manhattan while Susan became a journalist, writing about women's cultural issues for newspapers and magazines. She followed Durst to New York, where he married the beautiful Kathie McCormack. Then, Kathie disappeared and Susan stood by her best friend Robert, despite suspicions that Durst had caused the demise of his wife. Twenty years later, as police closed in on Durst and reopened the case, seeking to interview his best friends, Susan was murdered. Few clues were found. Who did it and why? Was it the Mob? A trusted friend? Murder in Beverly Hills (an updated, revised edition of Murder of a Mafia Daughter) answers those questions. Exclusive information about the investigation is included in this edition, as well as new interviews of police detectives, Susan's friends, family and colleagues, and new information about Robert Durst is revealed. MURDER IN BEVERLY HILLS-The Mob-style Execution of Susan Berman, Her Crime Boss Father, and The Deadly Secret She Took to Her Grave-Cathy Scot

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Good evening. This is your host Dan Zupansky for the program True Murder,

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the most shocking killers in True Crime history and the authors that have written about them.

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Growing up, Susan Burman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas mob royalty. The daughter of a mob

1:36.0

boss who ran the flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy.

1:41.3

But halfway through her childhood, her dream exploded. Susan's father died without warning during

1:47.0

a routine surgery. Next, Susie Burman's mother died by her own hand the next year when she

1:54.1

overdosed on drugs. Susie was whisked away from the only home she'd ever known,

1:58.7

parentless, living with an uncle and his family, and sent away to boarding school.

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Now, fast-forward to college where Susan met her soulmate, Robert Durst. They became best friends

2:09.2

in each other's confidants. Durst went to work for his wealthy father at the Durst Organization

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in Manhattan. While Susan became a journalist, writing about women's cultural issues for newspapers

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