Murder mastermind or misunderstood best friend? Real estate mogul Robert Durst on trial for the murder of Susan Berman.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It's been nearly five years since real estate heir Robert Durst was charged for the murder of his college best friend. Susan Berman was found shot execution-style in the back of the head in her Los Angeles home 20 years ago. But this is not the first murder connected to the billionaire. His first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, vanished in upstate New York in 1982. She has never been found. Durst was also acquitted in the 2001 murder and dismemberment of his Texas neighbor, 71-year-old Morris Black. Durst's trial has just begun. Joining Nancy Grace today: Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, author “Red Flags” www.wendypatrickphd.com Cloyd Steiger - 36 years Seattle Police Department, 22 years Homicide detective, Author "Seattles Forgotten Serial Killer-Gary Gene Grant" www.cloydsteiger.com Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author,"Blood Beneath My Feet" Dr Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly Hills, www.drbethanymarshall.com Levi Page - Investigative reporter Crime Online

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0:00.0	What really happened to Susan Berman?
0:10.6	Was she murdered execution style because she knew the truth of Robert Durst's wife,
0:18.2	her disappearance, and I have gone to her home, her neighborhood.
0:25.6	And let me tell you people there have no doubt what happened to her.
0:37.3	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:43.6	They found their face down in her bedroom and it was a single bullet shot to the back of
0:47.2	the head.
0:48.4	There is no way on earth that Susan Berman let a stranger into her house that night.
0:54.5	She was shot from behind while walking into a back room of the house.
0:59.5	She had to trust that person.
1:03.0	When I first heard about what had happened that yes, it had to be somebody that we knew,
1:11.2	that she knew at least.
1:13.0	Bob Durst.
1:14.4	Bob Durst.
1:16.4	Tying up some loose ends, killing his best friend to save himself.
1:21.7	That's cold.
1:24.4	That's cold.
1:25.4	Wow.
1:26.4	That is from true TV power privilege and justice with me.
1:31.8	And all star panel, Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor author, red flags at windypatchock
1:37.1	p h d dot com, Floyd Steiger, 36 years Seattle PD, including homicide, author Seattle's
1:44.4	forgotten serial killer Gary Jane Grant at Lloyd Steiger dot com.
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