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

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

On Monday, January 10th, eccentric millionaire Robert Durst died behind bars.

Dirst was convicted of the murder of his friend Susan Berman four months prior to his death on September 17, 2021. And he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Susan Berman was a close friend of Durs and the daughter of the late Jewish mobster Davy Berman.

Susan Berman was brutally murdered in her home on December 23, 2000.

The prosecutors theorized in Dirst's trial that Dirste murdered Berman to keep her from telling

law enforcement what she knew about the murder of Catherine McCormick Dirst.

Catherine McCormick Dirst has been missing since 1981, and in 2016, she was legally declared dead.

Prosecutors argued in Durst trial that 10 months after Berman's murder,

Durst was in hiding from possible prosecution for the murder of his first wife

in Galveston, Texas, posing as a mute woman named Dorothy Steiner.

When Durst's Texan neighbor, Morris Black, learned of Dirt's true identity, Ders shot Black

and cut his body into bits disposing of them in Galveston Bay. When Black's remains were

discovered, Ders successfully argued that the murder was done in an act of self-defense.

With the media focusing on Durs' life, I thought this would be a good time to explore the trial

that finally convicted him. Judge Mark Wyndham, who presided over this trial, called it,

quote, the most extraordinary trial I have ever seen, unquote.

And I would agree.

Joining me is true crime observer Lee, who live tweeted both the Durst trial and Iowa versus Christian Rivera.

Welcome Lee.

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