The Biography of Robert Durst, His Crimes and Conviction!
Robert A Durst was born on April 12, 1943, in Manhattan, to Seymour B. and Bernice (Herstein) Durst, the oldest of their four children. Robert's grandfather, Joseph Durst, an Austrian emigrant, built a Manhattan office and apartment building business in 1927, and his father was the patriarch of that empire.
Robert and his brothers, Douglas, Thomas, and Wendy, grew up in the Scarsdale neighborhood of Westchester, but their idyllic upbringing was cut short in 1950 when their mother died after falling or jumping from their home's roof. The family was heartbroken, and Robert, who may have watched her fall, was devastated.
The siblings, just year and a half separated, had never gotten along, particularly after their mom, Bernice, either fell or hopped from the top of the family home in 1950, when Robert was 7. Crushed by his dad's decision, Mr. Durst cut himself off from the family and started fluttering among homes in New York, Texas and California.
Robert was committed to mental therapy after a fistfight with Douglas. At Scarsdale High School, he was a loner. The 1961 yearbook featured only one photo of him and made no mention of his extracurricular activities.
Robert Durst earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Lehigh University in 1965 but suddenly dropped out of graduate school at U.C.L.A., at which he met Susan Berman, an ambitious young writer as well as the daughter of a renowned Las Vegas mafia boss.
Robert Durst's behavior as a young man was often impetuous and eccentric. He encouraged Kathleen McCormack, a medicine student who lived in a Durst building, to go with himself to Vermont, where he had founded a health-food store called "All Good Things," after two dates. They were frugal, lived in a hippie commune, and drove a VW Beetle.
Robert Durst was accused of killing three people over the course of forty years: his significant other, Kathleen Durst, who vanished on Jan. 31, 1982, after a fight at their home in South Salem, N.Y.; his companion Susan Berman, who was shot in her Benedict Canyon home in Los Angeles in 2000; and Morris Black, a neighbor who was shot in Mr. Durst's Galveston, Texas, loft in 2001.
Robert Durst was able to evade charges in correlation with his wife's vanishing for nearly 40 years, despite several investigations. However, on November 1, 2021, he was charged in New York with a minor charge of second-degree murder.
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