According to CNN, on January 10, local time, Robert Durst, a rich American murderer and prototype of the HBO documentary type short drama "New York Disaster Star", died of natural causes in a california prison hospital at the age of 78. In October 2021, he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and received treatment, in addition to other medical conditions.
Robert was repeatedly investigated for his involvement in the disappearance of his ex-wife, the murder of a close friend, and the murder of a neighbor, and once disguised himself as a woman who could not speak, and was imprisoned for the murder of a neighbor from 2004 to 2006, until 2021, when he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a close friend in 2000.
A dramatic scene in 2015, the day after Robert was arrested on suspicion of murdering his close friend Susan Berman, the final episode of the documentary "New York Disaster Star" came online, and Robert forgot to turn off the microphone in the bathroom and said to himself, "What the hell did I do?" Of course, they were all killed", and the creepy confession afterwards was confirmed to be edited and spliced by the filmmakers.
CNN said that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Robert's lawyer Dick DeGuerin confirmed the death of the rich murderer, saying that Robert died of natural causes at a medical institution in Stockton, California, at 6:44 a.m. local time on January 10, and the local coroner will determine the exact cause of death.
In October 2021, Robert was diagnosed with COVID-19 and subsequently treated, he also suffered from other medical conditions such as bladder cancer, and when he finally appeared in court, he looked very weak.
The notorious American billionaire was born in April 1943 as the eldest son of New York real estate mogul Seymour Durst. Robert's mother died when he was 7 years old when he fell from his roof, and Robert later claimed that he saw his mother standing on the roof, which made the character flaws of childhood one of the reasons for Robert's million-dollar lawyer team to defend him in the future, but his brother Douglas denied in an interview in 2015 that Robert had witnessed his mother's death.
Robert was first investigated by police in 1982 when his first wife, Kathleen McCormack, mysteriously disappeared. Robert said at the time that he was last seen his ex-wife on a train to New York.
But three weeks before her disappearance, Catherine reportedly saw a doctor with a facial bruise, and she told friends that Robert had beaten herself. In addition, Catherine had filed a $250,000 divorce agreement with Robert, which had her credit card cancelled. After Catherine disappeared, her belongings were thrown in the trash, as if she would never return.
Despite Robert's suspicions, the case remains unresolved. It wasn't until 2017 that Catherine was found dead, but her body was never found. In November 2021, a grand jury in New York again charged Robert with murdering Catherine.
Robert and ex-wife Catherine (left), Robert and friend Susan
The event was adapted into the suspense film All Good Things (starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst), which was released in the United States in 2010.
In 2000, Robert's old friend, college classmate, and daughter of American gangster David Berman was brutally murdered in her home, and Susan had provided Robert with an alibi after the disappearance of Robert's ex-wife, this time, Robert was again full of suspicions, but his multimillion-dollar defense team said that Robert did not kill anyone, but only panicked and fled after finding Belman's body.
To avoid investigation and other troubles, Robert then runs to live in a dilapidated apartment in Galveston, Texas, disguised himself as a woman who could not speak, and became friends with his next-door neighbor, Morris Black.
In 2001, part of Morris's body was found floating in Galveston Bay, and Robert argued that the two sides had a dispute at the time, and that he had drawn his gun in self-defense, which killed Blake.
This time, Robert was not convicted of murder, and he was eventually sentenced to five years in December 2004 on two counts of bail escape and one count of tampering with evidence (dismembering Morris's body) as part of a plea deal. While serving his sentence, he was released on parole in July 2005, then returned to prison for violating regulations during parole and released again in March 2006.
Robert's life experience was made in 2015 as the HBO documentary-type short series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (aka The Death of Robert Durst), which caused a sensation after it aired in February 2015.
In March 2015, Robert was arrested on suspicion of murdering Berman in New Orleans in 2000, and the day after his arrest, the final episode of New York Disaster Star aired, in which Robert forgot to turn off the microphone in his bathroom and began muttering, "What the hell did I do?" Kill them all, of course. ”（What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.）
This sensational recording caused an uproar at the time, and it was later confirmed that the filmmakers did the editing and splicing.
Original recorded text version of New York Disaster Star
In October 2021, Robert was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of his close friend Susan in 2000.
Robert, who is awaiting a new trial before his death, was again charged in November 2021 with murdering his first wife in 1982.
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