To: TobagoJack who wrote (178474 ) 9/18/2021 9:41:25 AM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Respond to TJ - the NYC real estate moguls are very cruel, I avoided them, except one.Robert Durst gained notoriety for the unsolved 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst; the 2000 murder of Susan Berman , his longtime friend, for which he was convicted in September 2021; and the 2001 killing of Morris Black, his neighbor in Galveston , Texas , for which he was acquitted in 2003. [2] and grew up in Scarsdale , New York . [3] He is the son of real estate magnate Seymour Durst and his wife Bernice Herstein . His siblings are Douglas , Tommy, and Wendy. Durst's paternal grandfather, Joseph Durst , who was a tailor when he emigrated from Austria-Hungary in 1902, eventually became a successful real estate manager and developer, founding the Durst Organization in 1927. New York Times interview, his brother Douglas denied that Robert had witnessed her death. [4] [5] As children, Robert and Douglas underwent counseling for sibling rivalry ; [6] a 1953 psychiatrist's report on ten-year-old Robert mentioned "personality decomposition and possibly even schizophrenia ".
