Posted on 07/16/2005 3:40:24 AM PDT by Liz
Cross-dressing killer Robert Durst was freed from a NJ federal prison yesterday.........
The wildly eccentric Durst, 62-year-old heir to the Durst real-estate empire in NY and the serial suspect in a string of violent crimes, walked out of the federal pen....hopped into a black limo and was driven to Philadelphia International Airport for a first-class flight.
After leaving the lockup, Durst's driver attempted to elude reporters by speeding along small back roads in South Jersey before stopping at a rest station on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
There, a frail and haggard Durst used a McDonald's restroom..........he appeared startled to see a photographer and would not reply to a reporter's questions.
Durst had been in the prison since January for taking guns across state lines after he jumped bail while awaiting trial in Texas. He was charged there in the 2001 killing and dismemberment of Morris Black in Galveston.
Durst had moved to the coastal Texas city the year before — posing as a deaf, mute woman while a suspect in another California murder.
Durst admitted killing Black and chopping up his body but claimed it was in self-defense. He jumped bail before the trial began, and six weeks later he was picked up after trying to steal a chicken sandwich in Bath, Pa. — with his hair and eyebrows shaved, carrying two guns and $38,000.
.........Durst was returned to Texas to face trial in the slaying of Morris — where the jury stunned the world by accepting Durst's self-defense plea and acquitting him outright of the murder.
He was convicted of jumping bail and tampering with evidence..............
Durst has long been suspected of having a hand in wife Kathleen's disappearance in 1982......also suspected of involvement in the killing of Kathleen's best friend, Susan Berman, in Los Angeles in 2000.........
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Either fish or cut bait.
"Durst had been in the prison since January for taking guns across state lines after he jumped bail"
Is this the whole charge? Taking guns across state lines? This is America isn't it?
If you dismembered a body, your wife is missing, and your friend was killed.......that would raise questions about your activities.
BACKSTORY
Judge in Robert Durst trial yanked off the case
Houston Chronicle | KEVIN MORAN
FR Posted on 09/29/2004 10:41:23 AM PDT by Leapfrog
An appeals court judge has forced out the judge who oversaw Robert Durst's murder trial, choosing to hear the acquitted millionaire's upcoming bail-jumping trial himself.
Today former Texas 1st Court of Appeals Judge Jackson Smith recused State District Judge Susan Criss, who'd set a record $3 billion bail for Durst on the bail-jumping charges after watching a Galveston jury acquit him of murder charges. The real estate heir's attorney told the appeals judge they wanted Criss off the case because she also instigated an investigation into allegations of jury tampering in Durst's murder trial.
In refusing to recuse herself, Criss denied that she told jurors in Durst's 2003 murder trial they were wrong to acquit him for fatally shooting 71-year-old neighbor Morris Black, then butchering his body and dumping the bagged parts into Galveston Bay.
Durst's attorney claimed Criss could not act fairly in the case and presented affidavits from five of the 12 jurors who helped acquit Durst. In his affidavit, juror Christopher Lovell said Criss seemed angry when he told her after the trial that he did not consider as evidence of Durst's guilt his flight from Galveston after he cut up Black's body. ``You were wrong,'' Lovell quoted Criss as saying.
Other jurors offered similar recollections of the meeting. Juror Joanne Gongora said in her affidavit, however, that Criss ``didn't specifically state that she felt the jury reached the wrong verdict'' but ``it was apparent from her tone and demeanor that she believed so.''
Durst remains in the Galveston County Jail awaiting a scheduled Oct. 12 trial on bail-jumping and evidence-tampering charges stemming from Black's death.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
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I understand they let this psycho loose so that he can live in Houston. Too bad...
Proving once again that the jury in Galveston must have been smoking crack during deliberations. I certainly wouldn't want this serial murderer living in my town, but he probably fits in in Galveston.
It's OJ America where the rich get lawyers and acquittals and the poor get Court-appointed amateurs and convictions.
Then how about holding him on suspicion of murder? Of course it is New Jersey so they could follow him and wait til he tosses a piece of litter out. Then he'll be doing hard time.
And they said the OJ jury was dumb............
Follow him for a possible litter violation? Are you kidding? That would be profiling.
That's a sad thing to say. Sad because there's a lot of truth in it.
The story is that the day after Kathy went missing, Durst needed cover. Suzan Berman---Durst's longtime friend---was apparently the female that called Kathy's employment posing as Kathy saying she would not be there. So ditzy Durst went ballistic-----Berman could blow the whistle on him in his wife's disappearance. Looks like Berman had to go down according to this crazed killer.
**** and six weeks later he was picked up after trying to steal a chicken sandwich in Bath, Pa. — with his hair and eyebrows shaved, carrying two guns and $38,000****
Why would anyone with $38,000 in his pocket draw attention to himself by stealing a chicken sandwich?
Guy's a nutcase.
A rich nutcase.
With a brain ful of good ole common sense, Judge Criss may be just the woman to replace O'Connor for the Supreme Court!
I believe the skipped bail is a felony, and disqualifies him unde FFL
I saw this guy on the news last night entering his new hi=rise building on Allen Parkway. I'll bet his new neighbors are thrilled. NOT I was shocked when the jury in Galveston let this whack job off. What do you want to bet they were paid off.
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