Seymour durst biography of martin luther king
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst, the wealthy New York real estate heir and failed fugitive dogged for decades with suspicion in the disappearance and deaths of those around him before he was convicted gods year of killing his best friend, has died. He was 78.
Durst died of natural causes Monday in a hospital outside the California prison where he was serving a life sentence, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Durst had been held in a hospital lockup in stad i kalifornien due to a litany of ailments.
Durst was convicted in September of shooting Susan Berman at point-blank range at her Los Angeles home in 2000. He was sentenced Oct. 14 to life in prison without parole.
Durst had long been suspected of killing his wife, Kathie, who went missing in New York 1982 and was declared legally dead decades later.
But only after Los Angeles prosecutors proved he silenced Berman to prevent her from telling police she helped cover up Kathie’s killing was Durst indi
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In David Healy’s review of my book, The Zyprexa Papers, he writes:
If you think what happens to Bill Bigley could only happen in some out of way place, like Anchorage, think again – this is the reality of being a non-person in New York, Washington, Berlin, London and likely Beijing too.
It can also happen to people born into very wealthy families.
For a little over a year now I have been trying to help Evan Durst Kreeger as a life coach, not as his attorney. Evan is a member of the Durst family, which owns the Durst Organization, “one of the most powerful companies in Manhattan real estate for almost a century” according to Charles Bagli of The New York Times in Episode 5 of the 2015 Emmy winning HBO documentary, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.
In 1982, when Evan was 12 years old, his beloved Aunt Kathie disappeared. For various reasons, suspicion centered on Kathie’s husband, Robert Durst, Evan’s uncle. Evan’s pare
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Jarecki's 'Jinx': documentary for binge-watching generation
NEW YORK (AP) - Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki says "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," his story of a New Yorker with privilege who's free despite suspicions of his involvement in three murders, may be the first documentary created for the binge watcher.
Durst's tale begins unspooling Sunday (8 p.m. EST) on HBO and continues for five more weekly episodes. More than a murder mystery, the absorbing series reveals a strange but smart man who's long feuded with his wealthy family.
"The story is so operatic," Jarecki said. "That's what's so fascinating to me - seeing someone who is born to such privilege and years later is living in a $300-a-month rooming house in Galveston, Texas, disguised as a mute woman."
Durst, 71, has never been charged in connection with the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathie, or in the unsolved 2000 murder of his friend, Susan Berman, in Beverly Hills, California. He was ac