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So They Say: Robert Durst Talks Brooklyn Investments and Innocence

So They Say: Robert Durst Talks Brooklyn Investments and Innocence

Durst family outcast Robert Durst’s aberrant behavior surfaced again in July, when he allegedly urinated on a cash register and candy rack at a Houston CVS store. “He wasn’t arguing with anybody and he didn’t seem agitated,” a Houston police spokeswoman told The New York Post after the bizarre incident. “He just peed on the candy. Skittles, I think.” Mr. Durst, 71, has made headlines in the past…

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Bob Durst, Camp Counselor

Bob Durst, Camp Counselor

Like millions of others, I watched Andrew Jarecki’s The Jinx to its riveting conclusion — when Robert Durst, the subject of the six-part HBO documentary, all but outed himself as a serial murderer. It was a conclusion powerful enough to prompt the FBI to arrest Durst on suspicion that he murdered a female friend in Los Angeles in 2000. But like just a few others, The Jinx had me remembering my…

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DURST IS ‘CRAZY’ – LIKE A FOX: COP

DURST IS ‘CRAZY’ – LIKE A FOX: COP

A Texas investigator believes that accused killer and wealthy New York real-estate scion Robert Durst’s crazy act is a “clever facade.”

Durst – heir to billions – was arrested in Bethlehem, Pa., after he was nabbed for allegedly stealing a sandwich Nov. 30. He is accused of dismembering his 71-year-old neighbor in Galveston, Texas, then dumping the body parts in a nearby bay.

Durst’s bizarre…

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A Meeting Of Two Mysteries / Could slain writer Susan Berman have shed light on an old disappearance case? N.Y. investigators thought so

New York authorities investigating the 1982 disappearance of a medical student were trying to arrange an interview with writer Susan Berman just before she was found shot to death on Christmas Eve in her Los Angeles home.

Why investigators from the Westchester County district attorney’s office wanted to talk to Berman, the 55-year-old daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, was not clear yesterday.

Berm…

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He Lived at the Centrum – Dallas Realtor Recalls Showing Robert Durst Oak Lawn Condos

Robert Durst, the New York Real Estate scion who may finally be charged with at least three murders, lived in Dallas for at least a year at The Centrum in Oak Lawn.

Durst was “the oldest son and heir apparent to a real estate magnate father, and grew up in privilege outside New York City, according to the New York Times. He was passed over for the presidency of the Durst Organization in 1994 in…

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Robert Durst Spooks His New Harlem Neighbors

Robert Durst Spooks His New Harlem Neighbors

Word has gotten around that Robert Durst purchased a townhouse in Harlem, and, as happens to almost everybody, really, the neighbors are not pleased, the Postreports. The confessed murderer, former cross-dresser and son of one of New York’s most powerful real estate developers, will not be welcome with open arms if he does in fact decide to move into the property he recently purchased at 218…

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Robert Durst opts for trial over jail deal on NY charge

Robert Durst, the New York real estate heir with headline-grabbing Texas connections, has opted to go to trial rather than accept 15 days in jail.

Durst was arrested Aug. 16 outside his Harlem home on a charge of trespassing at a relative’s midtown Manhattan brownstone in June, according to the Associated Press.

Earlier this week, prosecutors offered him a plea bargain of 15 days in jail in…

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Robert Durst Raises Focus On Harlem

Robert A. Durst, the eccentric scion of the Durst real-estate dynasty who has had trouble with the law, has purchased a 19th-century townhouse on Lenox Avenue in Harlem for $1.75 million, brokers say.

It wasn’t clear whether Mr. Durst plans to live in the 1888 house at 218 Lenox Ave. The 21-foot-wide house in the middle of the Mount Morris Park Historic District, has been divided into three…

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