Unexpectedly, after nearly ten years, HBO's crime documentary "New York Disaster" has a second season...
The series is produced by HBO, which can be called the best of documentaries, and the Douban score in the first season is as high as 9.1.
As the title suggests, the protagonist "Robert Durst" is a notorious "disaster" in New York, where all the people around him die and disappear...
He is surrounded by three unsolved cases that have not yet been solved.
However, whether these people really died "accidentally" or were murdered by Dest has been controversial.
The reason why he alone can win the attention of the public has a lot to do with his special status.
He is the heir to one of New York's most prominent families and has a fortune that will last a lifetime.
Outwardly, he resembles a weak and humble gentleman with an honest face, and no one would associate him with a murderer.
However, he was actually burdened with three murders, but because of the lack of substantial evidence, coupled with his strong financial backing, he was at large for decades.
It's a bit funny that he was arrested in the end because of the documentary "New York Disaster", and the documentary was filmed at his own initiative...
To understand what kind of "strange man" Robert Durst is, you need to start with the cases he committed.
Galveston, Texas, September 2001.
The police found a body on the shore, with no limbs and a head, only a torso.
After investigation, it was found that the limbs were divided into several black plastic bags, floating around, except for the head.
Through fingerprint comparison, it was confirmed that the victim was an elderly man named Maurice Black.
He has a suspicious neighbor who is said to be an ugly-looking mute woman.
After the first rental, it disappeared and was replaced by a man who haunted the area.
The police reasonably suspect that the "woman" is a disguise, and that it is a man who actually lives here, and combined with the bloodstains in his room, it is clear that he is the real murderer of Morris.
The police soon found the suspect, Dest.
And the reason why Dest was arrested was actually stealing sandwiches!
It's really surprising that a man with $30,000 in his car and a few hundred dollars on his body chose to steal sandwiches...
After his arrest, he easily took out $250,000 bail, which also made the Texas police begin to notice the man's special identity.
At the same time, there is a wave of people who are gearing up to take Dest to court with this case: Catherine Dest's family.
Catherine, Dest's first wife, disappeared nineteen years ago, and her family has always believed that Dest had killed Catherine.
Catherine was born in an ordinary family, met Durst at a party, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, fell in love at first sight, fell in love across classes and soon entered the marriage hall.
At first, the two were extremely in love with each other and were an enviable couple.
But as time went on, the conflict began to emerge, Catherine became pregnant, and she wanted to keep the child, but Durst was adamantly opposed.
It is true that the two had agreed not to have children before they got married, which was proposed by Dest, but when the child really came, Catherine still felt compassion for this little life.
However, this matter is not negotiable for Dest, and he forces Catherine to have an abortion, and since then, the relationship between the two has taken a turn for the worse.
Later, Catherine's friends recalled that she seemed to be particularly afraid of Dest and had been beaten before.
On the night of her disappearance, she was supposed to be partying with friends, but she hurried back nervously because of a phone call from Dest.
However, in Dest's confession, Catherine had a big fight with herself when she came home that night, and she had to drive to New York, but she didn't agree because he also needed to drive.
In the end, he watched Catherine board the train to New York, and he also took the initiative to call the police when he found that he could not contact her for several days.
However, during the police visit, they found that no one along the road remembered Catherine, and it is not known whether she went to New York or not.
Meanwhile, in the trash can, Catherine's friend flipped through a handwritten note from Dest, listing a shopping list that was essential for disposing of corpses, including a junkyard, a boat, a dig, a shovel, and more...
But in the end, there is an important evidence that cleared Durst's suspicion that it was the morning after Catherine "went" to New York.
The school she attended received a call from her asking for leave, which means that she should theoretically still be alive the next morning.
However, there seems to be something else behind the call.
Dest has a friend of the opposite sex named Susan Berman, the daughter of the mafia.
She is both rich and talented herself, and because she writes copywriting, she has a close relationship with the newspaper.
Susan and Durst have a delicate relationship, and Susan is said to trust Durst 100%.
Considering the relationship between the two men, a bold conjecture was proposed: could the phone call that proved Catherine alive be disguised by Susan?
Thinking of this, the police immediately dispatched to prepare to find a breakthrough in the case through Susan.
However, before she could be asked, Susan died......
There was no sign of a break-in in her house, and there were no signs of a fight at the scene, and she was shot in the head in the back.
By all indications, the killer was someone she knew and trusted.
So is the murderer Durst this time?
The police couldn't find any conclusive evidence, and they found out that Dest had escaped!
It wasn't until the Morris case that he was back in court, and it was a well-known lawyer who defended him, thinking that the evidence was conclusive this time, but he didn't expect him to escape...
As for the answer to how he escaped the law and how he was finally arrested again because of the documentary, the dean will not spoil too much.
It can only be said that it is gratifying that on September 17, 2021, he was finally convicted of murdering his friend.
On October 14, 2021, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for life.
On January 10, 2022, Durst passed away at the age of 79.
The only regret is that he died without accepting the trial for the murder of his first wife.
To this day, many people still think that he may really be innocent, but most people believe that he is a demon from hell.
What the truth is, perhaps no one will ever know.
Looking at Durst's upbringing, it is not difficult to see that his psychology has been distorted in childhood.
Witnessing the death of his mother, his father not only did not appease him, but also treated him coldly, which hit him hard, including the failure of his subsequent marriage also had a lot to do with the original family.
The second season of "New York Disaster" reveals an eight-year-long investigation into Robert Dest.
Including the exposure of some hidden material, Durst's prison phone call, and interviews with people who have never come forward before, it can be regarded as a behind-the-scenes scene of the first season.
Overall, this is a high-quality documentary, and fans of the genre can download it. #头条创作挑战赛 ##每日一部影视作品推荐##美剧推荐##纪录片##美国#