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Robert Durst HBO thing
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Last: 4 yr ago by Milwaukees Best Light
Dicky's job just got easier, apparently the LA police looked at Durst's handwriting in comparison to the cadaver note in 2000 and their handwriting expert concluded it was not Bobby's writing.
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Dicky's job just got easier, apparently the LA police looked at Durst's handwriting in comparison to the cadaver note in 2000 and their handwriting expert concluded it was not Bobby's writing.
No, they initially only looked at handwriting from Berman's manager, and determined that he was a highly probable match. Then they later looked at Durst's and said, oh wait no THIS guy is a highly probable match.
The LAPD never explicitly concluded it wasn't Durst, they had just previously concluded it was someone else, prior to investigating Durst.
You're right though, that this will make things easy for Dicky, who has already come out to mention that handwriting analysis is 'junk science'.
Dateline has a piece on Bob Durst airing tonight.
I would be very surprised at this point if anyone can get a guilty verdict after what happened in Galveston.
Knocked this out the last couple of days. That was really good.
Bunk made a pretty good case for the NY cop. But man, just based on what we saw, that guy seemed like quite the POS to me. Everything he said seemed to revolve around there not being any evidence. Well of course there's no evidence when the person in charge of investigating seemingly refuses to consider looking into the possibility of a homicide. Couldn't help but think of The Wire and the numbers game.
Same vein in that I'm just basing this on what we saw, but I can't believe how incompetent that Galveston DA was. In the scene where the prosecutor was trying to reenact the fight and Durst was just sitting there being vague I was basically screaming at the TV. He had just gone in to great detail with his attorneys and now all of the sudden he's not cooperating? Not sure how you let that fly. Did they even ask him where the head was? Or why he put it somewhere else if the dismembering was a panic move?
Bunk made a pretty good case for the NY cop. But man, just based on what we saw, that guy seemed like quite the POS to me. Everything he said seemed to revolve around there not being any evidence. Well of course there's no evidence when the person in charge of investigating seemingly refuses to consider looking into the possibility of a homicide. Couldn't help but think of The Wire and the numbers game.
Same vein in that I'm just basing this on what we saw, but I can't believe how incompetent that Galveston DA was. In the scene where the prosecutor was trying to reenact the fight and Durst was just sitting there being vague I was basically screaming at the TV. He had just gone in to great detail with his attorneys and now all of the sudden he's not cooperating? Not sure how you let that fly. Did they even ask him where the head was? Or why he put it somewhere else if the dismembering was a panic move?
His case about the dismemberment seemed to be more about that it was a desperate move by someone painted into a corner by an evil yankee prosecutor vs. something he did in an instant of panic. His defense team basically turned Pirro into a monster to explain why he was in Galveston under such weird circumstances and why he would be afraid to go to the authorities, and the nimrod jury bought it.
He's not exactly a genius because the loose ends he did leave were largely avoidable, but each time, he's left enough doubt to sell to nimrods. And the system protects the doubt.
He's not exactly a genius because the loose ends he did leave were largely avoidable, but each time, he's left enough doubt to sell to nimrods. And the system protects the doubt.
Oh, and I understand that he wasn't on trial for dismemberment, but why didn't they come back and charge him with that or something related to that after the fact? I'm sure there's some legal reason for it, but that doesn't make sense to me.
They did after the murder trial. He plead guilty to jumping bond and tampering with evidence.
But he basically got time served on the plea because he'd spent a few years in jail between being caught after jumping bond and the conclusion of the murder trial.
But he basically got time served on the plea because he'd spent a few years in jail between being caught after jumping bond and the conclusion of the murder trial.
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Bunk made a pretty good case for the NY cop. But man, just based on what we saw, that guy seemed like quite the POS to me. Everything he said seemed to revolve around there not being any evidence. Well of course there's no evidence when the person in charge of investigating seemingly refuses to consider looking into the possibility of a homicide. Couldn't help but think of The Wire and the numbers game.
That's what I was trying to say. He just didn't seem to want to investigate at all even early on and years later. I really didn't like him and if it'd bern my friend or family member, I'd've bern pissed.
Well he has bern here in jail before, and he's bern acquitted before so I wourdn't be surprised if he gets off this time too. It's crazy to think how it's bern 33 years now sirnce he first killed.
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Ep 1 was only 40 minutes long. So instead of a 6 episode series they could have done this in 4.
There's only 6 episodes??? Noooooo
Did anyone else immediately start to think that Seymour and Doug found evidence through the investigator they hired, that he was guilty, then cut him out of the family business? Then the restraining order taken out by Doug?
I'm not sure the time line of all that...but then the collect calls from NJ to Durst Org? I'd love to see Doug investigated and charged with aiding and abetting or something. Dude seems a little to eager to cut off any affiliation and not talk about it. If you think your brother is dangerous and did kill...why would you not share that with the police???
I'm not sure the time line of all that...but then the collect calls from NJ to Durst Org? I'd love to see Doug investigated and charged with aiding and abetting or something. Dude seems a little to eager to cut off any affiliation and not talk about it. If you think your brother is dangerous and did kill...why would you not share that with the police???
Totally agree. I assume back in the day their investigator made it clear Bob did it, and they assumed they could sweep it under the rug. But now that he just can't stop killing and acting the fool, it's way too late for them to look honorable now and come forward. What's sad is, if they had just cooperated from the start, that would have been embarrassing but not fatal to the business. When the fact that they covered all this up for 30 years comes out, that whole empire is going down. If there is any justice in the world, in the next couple of years both Durst brothers will be in jail for the rest of their lives.
Yeah...and they could maybe have spared 1 or 2 killings.
SIAP ( from NYT article from January). This is some straight serial killer ****.
Apparently this was in a taped interview with Debra, who then yelled "Bobby STOP! you're being recorded!"
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"Before the disappearance of my sister-in-law, Bob had a series of Alaskan Malamutes, which is like a husky," Douglas Durst said. "He had seven of them, and they all died, mysteriously, of different things, within six months of his owning them. All of them named Igor. We don't know how they died, and what happened to their bodies.
"In retrospect, I now believe he was practicing killing and disposing his wife with those dogs."
What led him to that conclusion, Douglas said, was that Robert turned the word "Igor" into a verb and inflected it with a menace: "When he was in jail in Pennsylvania, he was recorded saying, 'I want to Igor Douglas.'"
Apparently this was in a taped interview with Debra, who then yelled "Bobby STOP! you're being recorded!"
How can they record/use convos with a spouse? Is it bc they are incarcerated and at that point, the person should know better or?
I wonder why Jarecki didn't ask (or include) questions about the Igors?
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I agree about almost being on the fence due to how forthcoming and at ease he seems when he talks, although im convinced he killed her as well. I noticed how black his eyes are too. Creepy dude. Fascinating show.
Dude also has a tell. He squint blinks after every lie he states in an interview.
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He got the Galveston jury to believe he and Black were buddies.
Apparently, they were acquaintances before Galveston...
Seems lots of details weren't included in this show.(as mentioned before, Igor)
Watched the Dateline thing on Saturday night and it was pretty good. They brought out several things not included in the documentary that probably should have, including that Bobby has Asperger's Syndrome. This would explain some of the tics and talking to himself. They also said his mom killed herself in an asylum, which explains his messed up account of his mom's suicide as pure fiction or in his head.
Makes me thing old Kathy was a gold digger versus the perfect person described by everyone, because it would be very difficult to form an emotional attachment to a guy like Bobby.
Dicky's job just keeps getting easier and easier, hell the Galveston DA could get him off now.
Makes me thing old Kathy was a gold digger versus the perfect person described by everyone, because it would be very difficult to form an emotional attachment to a guy like Bobby.
Dicky's job just keeps getting easier and easier, hell the Galveston DA could get him off now.
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They also said his mom killed herself in an asylum, which explains his messed up account of his mom's suicide as pure fiction or in his head.
Didn't hbo show clipping from newspapers about her "falling" from the roof?
GQ article from before his trial in Galveston
According to this article there is a whole lot about Dursts life in Galveston that didnt make it in the Jinx. Durst had a second female personality. One that preferred young men and hung out with drag queens.
The more I read about this dude the more bizarre he becomes.
According to this article there is a whole lot about Dursts life in Galveston that didnt make it in the Jinx. Durst had a second female personality. One that preferred young men and hung out with drag queens.
The more I read about this dude the more bizarre he becomes.
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They also said his mom killed herself in an asylum
his mom jumped off their roof. susan berman's mom died in an asylum.
Sorry must have missed who they were talking about, I was multi-tasking at the time.
quote:Did anyone catch the line by one of his lawyers at the trial - "If Pirro had just kept her mouth shut, none of this would have happened"? Man, that was ballsy
His case about the dismemberment seemed to be more about that it was a desperate move by someone painted into a corner by an evil yankee prosecutor vs. something he did in an instant of panic. His defense team basically turned Pirro into a monster to explain why he was in Galveston under such weird circumstances and why he would be afraid to go to the authorities, and the nimrod jury bought it.
I just watched a Vanity Fair episode about him (and the show). Very interesting stuff. Dude is crazy.
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I agree about almost being on the fence due to how forthcoming and at ease he seems when he talks, although im convinced he killed her as well. I noticed how black his eyes are too. Creepy dude. Fascinating show.
Dude also has a tell. He squint blinks after every lie he states in an interview.
I thought the same thing at first about having a tell, but then I noticed him doing it after the easy questions too. Think it's just a twitch he has
I'm not surprised at all that he most likely killed those poor dogs. Many murderers, serial killers start off abusing and killing animals. I'm also starting to be pretty certain he's killed waaaaaay more than three people.
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I'm also starting to be pretty certain he's killed waaaaaay more than three people.
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