Source: This is the United States
Today, the whole united States is watching the verdict against a killer...
In other words, there are many large and small unsolved cases,
But this case can arouse the attention of the whole United States, not only because the case is jaw-dropping, but even the process of solving the case can be so dramatic and bizarre that all the screenwriters are amazed!
Finally, the jury reached its verdict in Los Angeles after three days and seven hours of deliberation:
guilty! Robert Durst was convicted of first-degree murder for killing his close friend, "Red Face Confidant" Susan Berman, in 2000.
It was the first conviction of the killer suspected of killing three people.
However, this result was not only dragged on for too long, but it was only part of the crime committed by Robert Durst...
Robert Durst is a New York real estate tycoon.
To be precise, he is actually the "second generation of the super-rich" born with a golden spoon - his father Seymour Durst is a famous real estate tycoon in New York, and his family is prominent.
However, in recent years, this "New York nobleman" has been in the whirlpool of public opinion of "serial killers"...
It all started 39 years ago.
One day in 1982, McCormack, his first wife, who had been married to him for nearly a decade, suddenly disappeared without warning after leaving a dinner party in Connecticut...
After his wife disappeared, Robert Durst called the police, but the police did not find valuable clues, so they called Robert Durst for questioning.
Robert Durst said he was in New York that day and wasn't in the same city as his wife.
And there are also people who have made strong proofs for him,
That person was Susan Berman, a close friend Durst had known since he was a student at the University of California and the daughter of a Las Vegas gangster.
In this way, even though mcCormack's family suspected that the missing McCormack had been killed by her husband, and even filed a lawsuit in court, the police reopened the investigation many times, but even if there was no evidence, it became a pending case...
During these years, Robert Durst gave up inheriting a huge family fortune, ran to Texas to become a farmer, and often pretended to be a mute woman, which he said was to avoid endless questioning by the police...
After 18 years, Robert Durst's name once again appeared in the public eye...
In 2000, Susan Berman was brutally murdered in Los Angeles, a close friend who testified for Robert Durst.
Most bizarrely, just a few days before Berman's murder, the police had summoned her to inquire about the disappearance in 1982, and then Durst, a resident of Texas, appeared in California, flying from San Francisco to New York the day before Berman's body was found.
Everyone can feel that there must be some kind of connection between them, but there is no real hammer evidence, and Robert Durst has escaped with his eyes...
But the year after the murder, in 2001, the remains of Robert Durst's old neighbor Morris Black in Texas were found...
He was once again arrested by the police as the number one suspect, but was released after he paid $300,000 in bail.
Later, in court, Robert Durst claimed that he had a verbal altercation with a neighbor and accidentally shot him, and then he was afraid and used a peeling knife, saw, axe to split the neighbor's body...
In this way, Robert Durst's defense team exonerated him in court and was released on parole after only a few years in prison.
Ironically, Robert Durst, who had been at large for years, often talked to people about the three famous murders, but added a sentence that had nothing to do with himself after the conversation???
The things that happened in the previous years are shocking enough, but the story of the crime solving in the back is really what makes you drop your jaw!
In 2015, the American HBO television network, which has produced many blockbuster American dramas, "took a fancy" to this series of serial murders, so they began to prepare for the documentary "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst".
And Robert Durst, who has always thought that "no evidence, no one can do anything to me", also confidently accepted the interview of the documentary, talking about the disappearance of his wife, the killing of the red face, and the dismemberment of the neighbor...
But who knows, robert Durst actually showed his horse's feet when he was interviewed on the show!
He muttered "KILL THEM ALL, OF COURSE" as he went to the bathroom(killing them all of course)...
But the killer who worked all the way to the camp forgot that he did not turn off the micro-wheat on his body at that time, and this sentence was recorded.
Ah this... After years of police investigation and still running out of the blue for Robert Durst, HBO made a documentary and then... Solved the case???
Not long after the documentary was filmed, coupled with some handwritten evidence available to the police, Robert Durst was approved for arrest.
This documentary is as thrilling as a drama, but unlike the drama, this is what really happened, which is what makes people more hairy.
Now, the jury believes Susan Berman was killed because she threatened to go to the police, saying she provided false alibi in the case of her wife's disappearance in 1982. Now that the charge has been convicted, jurors see it as another signal that Robert Durst was also the killer of his wife.
After reading this, it is now understandable why the people of the United States hate him and care so much about his sentence.
This "super rich second generation" killer has finally been convicted, but it really dragged on for too long...