4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Discretion is advised. |
0:16.0 | This is 10-minute murder. |
0:34.7 | When Robert Durst was a young child, his mother climbed to the roof of their family home |
0:40.0 | and jumped to her death. Years later, Robert would claim that he had seen the entire thing, |
0:46.9 | which his younger brother, Douglas, denied, was true. It wasn't out of the ordinary for the two |
0:52.5 | brothers to disagree. During their childhood, they were |
0:56.1 | even sent to a counselor in an attempt to help the boys work through their extreme sibling |
1:01.3 | rivalry. The Durst children had been born into a real estate empire, but it didn't matter to |
1:07.6 | Robert. He spent his entire childhood and teenage years as a loner, |
1:12.6 | getting into fights, and alienating himself from his family. In 1971, Robert started dating |
1:19.1 | a woman named Kathleen McCormick. He was smitten, and the relationship moved quickly. After only a |
1:25.8 | handful of dates, he asked Kathleen to move in with him, |
1:29.2 | which she agreed to. They got married in 1973 and lived an uneventful life together, until |
1:36.0 | Kathleen vanished. In early 1982, Kathleen was just a few months away from finishing her degree |
1:43.6 | and becoming a pediatrician. |
1:46.2 | She was last seen at a dinner party with friends, where multiple people noticed her strange |
1:51.0 | behavior. |
1:52.5 | Kathleen showed up at the party out of the blue, dressed extremely casually in a pair of |
1:57.5 | sweatpants, and then excused herself after she received a phone call from Robert. |
2:02.7 | She had plans to meet a friend at a pub in Manhattan, but never arrived. Her friend was |
2:08.0 | concerned enough to call the police several times, but Robert didn't seem to share those concerns. |
2:13.8 | He only reported Kathleen missing after she had been gone for several days. |
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