Durst, 78, is accused of killing Berman to cover up the alleged murder of his wife, who disappeared in 1982.
Police received a cryptic handwritten letter intended to lead them to Berman’s dead body, which had already been found because neighbors had noticed her dogs running free on Christmas Eve in 2000. Addressed to “Beverley Hills Police” ― a misspelling of “Beverly Hills” that Durst had used before ― the note contained just Berman’s address and the word “cadaver.” During a 2015 interrogation, Durst told police that whoever wrote it “had to be involved” in the killing.
After the reopening of Kathleen’s case nearly 20 years after her disappearance, Durst fled from New York to Galveston, Texas, where he lived on the cheap, pretending to be a mute woman and using a wig to aid his disguise. He later abandoned the disguise and became friends with his neighbor, Black. In Durst’s telling, Black had brought a gun into Durst’s apartment and the pair was struggling over it when it went off in Black’s face.
. Durst fled to Pennsylvania, where he was found by law enforcement after attempting to shoplift a sandwich.urinating in his uncle’s office wastebasket ― eventually led to him falling out of favor with his wealthy family in the 1990s.
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