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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rogwar on September 23, 2003, 11:38:21 AM
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=5&u=/nm/20030923/od_nm/crime_millionaire_dc
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"He's shot with my gun, he's shot in my apartment, that I rented as a mute woman wearing a wig because I was hiding from an investigation in New York. They're never going to believe me,"
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
I think he's right....
But could anyone hear say that phrase with a straight face?
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tried 5 times.. couldnt do it
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After his arrest, Durst was released on $300,000 bail and fled to Hanover Township, Pennsylvania where on Nov. 30, 2001 he was arrested for shoplifting a sandwich and a Band-Aid, even though he had $523 in his pocket and nearly $40,000 in his car.
Why are they picking on this poor guy?
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i just want to know where his car is parked.
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Too good to let Yahoo lose it.
=====From Yahoo News=====
Texas Murder Trial Begins for Millionaire
Tue Sep 23,10:04 AM ET
By Jeff Franks
GALVESTON, Texas (Reuters) - New York real estate heir Robert Durst acted in self-defense when he shot his neighbor, chopped up his body and threw the parts into Galveston Bay in September 2001, defense attorneys said on Monday in opening arguments of Durst's trial for murder.
Prosecutors countered that Durst killed 71-year-old Morris Black in cold blood, then calmly hacked up the body on the floor of his apartment, accidentally cutting holes in the linoleum in the process, in attempt to get away with the crime.
The frail-looking multimillionaire, 60, stood in the cramped, crowded courtroom and defiantly pleaded not guilty at the start of the proceedings.
"I plead not guilty, your honor. It was self-defense, it was an accident," he told state District Judge Susan Kriss. How could it be both self-defense and an accident? If you're acting in self defense, aren't you intending to harm the attacker? If its an accident, aren't you lacking the intent to harm?
Durst could face up to 99 years in prison if convicted of the crime. He is the son of late real estate mogul Seymour Durst, whose company owns numerous Manhattan skyscrapers and helped redevelop Times Square.
Durst is accused of shooting Black on Sept. 28, 2001, cutting up the body, putting the parts into plastic garbage bags and throwing them into the bay that separates Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico from the mainland 50 miles southeast of Houston.
A 13-year-old boy out fishing with his father found the body parts, except for Black's head, which is still missing.
Prosecutors said police found in the garbage bags receipts and a newspaper labeled with Durst's Galveston address, which led to his arrest on Oct. 9, 2001.
Durst's lawyers said he and Black, a seafaring drifter who lived across the hall had become friends, but on the day of the crime struggled over a gun that went off and shot Black in the face.
Black, said Durst attorney Dick Deguerin, was known as a dangerous man prone to violence. Durst found him in his apartment and ordered him to leave, then saw he had Durst's gun and tried to wrestle it from him.
Durst, Deguerin admitted, was a man with a past, too. He had been suspected in the disappearance of wife Kathy Durst 20 years before and was linked in the press to the execution-style shooting of best friend Susan Berman in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve 2000.
He had gone to Galveston in 2001 to get away from the allegations, which he denied. He rented his apartment posing as a mute woman and kept up the disguise until one day he caught his wig on fire in a bar while lighting a cigarette :rofl: , Deguerin said.
When Durst saw Black was dead, he panicked, Deguerin said.
"He's shot with my gun, he's shot in my apartment, that I rented as a mute woman wearing a wig because I was hiding from an investigation in New York. They're never going to believe me," he said, quoting Durst's thoughts.
Two days after the shooting, Durst wanted to move the body, but was not strong enough to carry it one piece. So, he cut it up and tossed it in the bay, another Durst attorney, Mike Ramsey, told the 12-member jury.
"Is it bizarre, is it grotesque? Yes, but it's explainable," he said, calling the killing a "righteous murder." Durst, he said, suffered from a mild form of autism that helped explain his unusual behavior.
Prosecutor Kurt Sistrunk said Durst might have gotten away with the shooting had the bags of body parts not been found.
"Morris Black rose from his watery grave and his finger pointed in the direction of this defendant," he said, pointing at Durst. "It was not an act of self-defense, but a cold, calculated murder."
After his arrest, Durst was released on $300,000 bail and fled to Hanover Township, Pennsylvania where on Nov. 30, 2001 he was arrested for shoplifting a sandwich and a Band-Aid, even though he had $523 in his pocket and nearly $40,000 in his car. Okaaaaay. We got an engine firing on all cylinders here, alright.
He was shipped back to Texas to face the murder charge.