Installment 12 of The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits is Season 2 Episode 4 Susan Berman — The Tragic End.

As a preface to our season 2 coverage of the post-pandemic portion of the trial we offer the final part of a three part series on the life of his best friend and alleged victim, Susan Berman. 

The Tragic End tracks Susan's initially hopeful and ultimately fatal Hollywood experience. We also discuss the first week of testimony in Durst's trial for Berman's murder with Charles V. Bagli, who covered the trial for The New York Times and CrimeStory.com.

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Installment 11 of The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits is Season 2 Episode 2 Susan Berman — A Big Personality.

As a preface to our season 2 coverage of the post-pandemic portion of the trial we offer part two of a three part series on the life of his best friend and alleged victim, Susan Berman. A Big Personality focuses on Susan establishing her career as a writer, the emotional and psychological troubles she confronted as a young adult and the forging of her relationship with Robert Durst.

The episode also includes a report on developments in the case just as the trial is about to re-commence after a 14 month pandemic hiatus.

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Installment 10 of The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits is Season 2 Episode 1, Susan Berman — Easy Street.

As a preface to our season 2 coverage of the post-pandemic portion of the trial we offer part one of a three part series on the life of his best friend and alleged victim, Susan Berman. Easy Street focuses on Susan's early life, growing up in Las Vegas as the daughter of a well known organized crime figure.

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Installment 9 of The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits is The Defense Opening and the Pandemic Hiatus where we offer highlights of Season 1 Episodes 9 through 12.

Dick Deguerin and David Chesnoff split the responsibilities of delivering the defense opening, with Deguerin asserting that Durst didn’t kill Susan Berman and he doesn’t know who did and with Chesnoff reminding the jurors that the defendant is only on trial for Berman’s murder.

After the opening statements conclude, it becomes clear that the jury will have to choose between two ways of interpreting evidence: Will they be guided by Chesnoff’s mantra that “no evidence is evidence” deciding that the lack of CSI-type forensic evidence leaves them with reasonable doubt of Durst’s guilt, or will they follow Lewin’s OK Boomer Method deciding that the mess of circumstantial evidence surrounding Durst’s actions and statements and the statements of others leaves only one reasonable explanation: that Robert Durst killed Susan Berman. 

And then, after two days of testimony the LA courts are shut down due to COVID-19 and the trial is suspended until next Spring. The episode concludes with a taste of the testimony that lies ahead in Season Two.

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Installment 8 of The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits is Season 1 Episode 8: After the Jinx.

In March of 2015, after the debut of a pivotal episode of The Jinx, Robert Durst was arrested in New Orleans on gun charges. Deputy DA John Lewin tells the jury that this is where he first met Durst, traveling to New Orleans to interrogate him. Lewin concludes his opening statement by presenting testimony of Durst's and Susan Berman's good friend Nick Chavin. According to Chavin, when he asked Durst about Susan Berman, Durst gave Chavin a disturbing reply.

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Installment 7 of The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits is Season 1 Episode 7: The Jinx.

After his acquittal on charges of murdering Morris Black and after serving prison time for dismembering Black's body and jumping bail, Robert Durst decides to record a conversation with the filmmakers of a movie that suggests he committed three murders. That conversation led to the documentary series The Jinx, and - ultimately - to Durst's now-famous bathroom utterances "There it is. You're caught." and "Killed them all, of course."

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Installment 6 of The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits is Season 1 Episode 6: Bob’s Texas Acquittal.

After the death of Morris Black, Robert Durst dismembered his body, threw the parts in Galveston Bay and made plans to flee Texas, not once but twice, the second after posting and jumping bail. Deputy DA John Lewin tells the jury that by telling a series of lies and half-truths, Durst seeded enough doubt in the minds of the Texas jurors to secure an acquittal on the charge of murdering Morris Black.

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Installment 5 of The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits is Season 1 Episode 5: The Killing of Morris Black.

It is early 2001. In the aftermath of Susan Berman's murder, Robert Durst is living disguised as a mute woman in a boarding house in Galveston, Texas, and is befriended by a new neighbor named Morris Black. Deputy DA John Lewin, using interview clips of Durst and others, chronicles the events that would lead to the killing of Morris Black in September of that year.

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In parallel with the premiere of The Jinx Part 2 on the Max streaming service, for Season 10 of this Jury Duty podcast we are presenting The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits.

For each of the six weeks of The Jinx 2 series we are re-releasing four of our favorite episodes about the Durst trial from the Jury Duty feed… for a total of 24 episodes.

This installment is Season 1 Episode 4: Point Blank.

Deputy DA John Lewin tells the jury that Robert Durst entrusted Susan Berman with his darkest secret. The prosecutor then chronicles the key events in each of their lives that led Durst to allegedly shoot his best friend in the back of her head.

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In parallel with the premiere of The Jinx Part 2 on the Max streaming service, for Season 10 of this Jury Duty podcast we are presenting The Trial of Robert Durst: Greatest Hits.

For each of the six weeks of The Jinx 2 series we are re-releasing four of our favorite episodes about the Durst trial from the Jury Duty feed… for a total of 24 episodes.

This installment is Season 1 Episode 3: Pine Barrens.

After his wife Kathie's disappearance, Robert Durst traveled to New Jersey, argues Deputy DA John Lewin. The prosecutor tells the jury that Durst made a series of collect calls from an area of the state near the Pine Barrens, a notorious Mafia burial ground made famous by the HBO series The Sopranos.

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