Durst was arrested in , but left town after posting bond. After skipping bail in Galveston, Durst was apprehended by police in Pennsylvania. He was discovered wearing a wig and shoplifting in a store in Pennsylvania. After being tried in for Black's murder, he was acquitted. After instances of alleged trespassing in and —when he was accused of being an unwelcome presence at a family properties in Manhattan—Durst was tried in but found not guilty.
His trial begins this week in Los Angeles. The trial will no doubt generate another round of unwanted scrutiny for his family. Moss, professor of urban planning and policy at New York University. His children and grandchildren have built on that tradition. Robert, the alleged killer, is a striking departure. When his partner bought him out in , Joseph used the proceeds to buy his first property, 1 W.
When the bank was sold, he used the profits to focus on real estate, buying and selling existing buildings. Seymour was a skilled negotiator, with a talent for assembling small parcels into major development sites, first along Third Avenue and later in the Times Square area. As a child he was profoundly affected by the death of his mother in , when she fell off the roof of the family house in a possible suicide.
Still, Robert graduated from Scarsdale High School, earned a degree in economics from Lehigh University, and attended graduate school in Los Angeles—though he never earned a doctorate, as he used to claim. In , Robert joined the family business and was given the responsibility for collecting rents and, sometimes, negotiating leases.
The same year, he married Kathie McCormack. When she vanished, in , only months before she was to graduate from medical school, the story hit the front pages of the tabloids—and Susan Berman helped manage the media. Robert told the police and reporters that his wife might have run away with a drug dealer.
Robert returned to the fold in the mids. Robert helped manage the business and was a presence on the New York social scene; he was friendly with Studio 54 founder Steve Rubell and regularly attended ballet performances. He traveled and dated women, one of whom, Debrah Charatan, a real estate executive, would eventually become his wife.
But by the late s he was becoming increasingly erratic. According to family members Robert gave Charatan rent money he collected and stacks of company vouchers for black cars, until Douglas put a stop to it. Rules to reduce foot traffic inside L. Under the restrictions, only 40 people can fit inside the Inglewood courtroom where the case will be held, including attorneys, staff and jurors. Reporters will not be allowed in the courtroom at the same time as the jury, due to spacing limitations.
The trial will be livestreamed via YouTube. The L. Times holiday gift guide. Colonialism, power and race. Inside California ethnic studies classes. Meet the formerly incarcerated fire crew protecting California from wildfires. All Sections. About Us. A state police investigator filed a criminal complaint Tuesday in a town court in Lewisboro, New York charging Durst with second-degree murder in the death of Kathie Durst, who vanished in The grand jury continues to meet and hear witnesses and could eventually return an indictment.
We are very happy with this development. At this time, however, we will not be making any further comments until the grand jury process is completed. Kathie Durst was 29 and in her final months of medical school when she was last seen. She and Robert Durst, who was 38 at the time, had been married nearly nine years and were living in South Salem, a community in Lewisboro.
Her body was never found. At the request of her family, she was declared legally dead in The criminal complaint filed Tuesday against Robert Durst was done parallel to the grand jury proceedings , which could continue for several more weeks.
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