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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2015 12:09:10 GMT
The charge for Susan Berman's murder has brought the mysteries surrounding Robert Durst back into the spotlight. Investigators may now be looking at Durst in the disappearance of two teenage girls in California in the mid 90s, reports CBS News correspondent Vladimir Duthiers. Police cars were seen at Durst's Houston apartment Tuesday and witnesses said officers carried out two cardboard boxes.  Saturday, a day before the finale of the HBO documentary series "The Jinx," authorities arrested Durst in New Orleans. At the episode's conclusion, Durst's voice was revealed to have been recorded off camera, allegedly muttering to himself. "What the hell did I do? ... Killed them all, of course," he said. Monday, he was charged in the shooting death of his friend, Berman, in California in 2000. Outside a New Orleans courthouse Tuesday, Durst's attorney maintained his client's innocence. "Bob Durst did not kill Susan Berman. He doesn't know who did," said Dick Deguerin. Durst was never charged for the 1982 disappearance of his first wife Kathleen in New York. In 2003, he was acquitted of murder in the dismemberment of his elderly neighbor Morris Black. Investigators have reportedly looked at Durst in the disappearances of two teenage girls in Northern California in 1997.  In June of that year, 18-year-old Kristen Modafferi disappeared after leaving her job in San Francisco. Investigators placed Durst in the Bay Area around that time. Five months later, 16-year-old Karen Marie Mitchell vanished after leaving her aunt's store in Eureka, California. Durst allegedly visited that store multiple times while dressed in drag. A police sketch of a suspect appears similar to Durst. Author Matt Birkbeck, who has reported extensively on Durst, insisted there's a connection. "Before these cases even came up before the public, he had been living this random bizarre lifestyle," Birkbeck said. "Durst had visited with or seen Mitchell at a homeless shelter that she had volunteered at." |
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2015 13:56:45 GMT
Police said Monday they've been investigating a link between the 1971 disappearance of a Middlebury College student and millionaire murder suspect Robert Durst. Investigators have been aware for several years of a link between 18-year-old Lynne Schulze and Durst, who operated the All Good Things health food store in the town, the Middlebury Police Department said in a statement.  Schulze, a native of Simsbury, Connecticut, who entered Middlebury College as a freshman in September 1971, was last seen that December. Her missing-person flyer shows her peering serenely through a loosely parted mane of light-brown hair. The Schulze case was reopened in 1992 and has continuously generated leads, police said. Middlebury police call it an ongoing criminal investigation and say they aren’t releasing any other details. The 71-year-old Durst is a member of a wealthy New York real estate family that runs 1 World Trade Center. He’s charged with killing a woman 15 years ago in Los Angeles. He’s been ordered held on weapons charges in Louisiana, where a judge decided he’s a flight risk and a danger to others after considering what FBI agents found in his hotel room — an elaborate disguise and other escape tools fit for a spy movie. Durst was arrested at a hotel in New Orleans, where he had registered under a fake name and was lying low while HBO aired the final chapters of his life story, a documentary series called ‘‘The Jinx.’’  Authorities said FBI agents found Durst’s passport and birth certificate, stacks of $100 bills, bags of marijuana, a gun, a map folded to show Louisiana and Cuba and a flesh-toned latex mask with salt-and-pepper hair. ‘‘This was not a mask for Halloween,’’ Assistant District Attorney Mark Burton said. Durst’s lawyers say his arrest was illegal. They say the timing of an agent’s inventory proves the search was illegal. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2015 2:19:03 GMT
Officials say there may be a break in the case of a Charlotte woman who has been missing for 18 years. Law enforcement is looking at human remains found to see who they belong to. Kristen Modafferi vanished from Oakland, California on June 23, 1997. She left her Oakland home for work and vanished without a trace.  Officials with The Kristen Foundation told WBTV the Modafferi family hired a private investigator with a cadaver dog to go to that home on Thursday. The investigator said he did the work pro bono. "When we learned of him, we asked if he would give us some assistance and check out the house where Kristen had rented a room back in 1997 in Oakland, California, and he was very willing to do so," Kristen's father, Bob Modafferi told WBTV. Bob Modafferi said it appeared the dog may have picked up the scent of human remains. The investigator then called Oakland Police, who responded to the scene to help with the investigation. "As it turns out, he did find very strong evidence of human remains in the basement of the home in Oakland where Kristen had lived back in 1997," he said. "It's 100 percent there are human remains in that basement. Now, the unknown is how old are those remains. Could be 100 years old, could be 20 years old."  Kristen attended the School of Design at North Carolina State University. According to The Kristen Foundation, she had planned "a summer filled with life experiences in a big city, San Francisco, where she would work, live on her own, and take photography courses at the University of California at Berkeley to compliment her major, Industrial Design."  |
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