03-19-2015, 03:45 PM
^ Yeah, the filmmakers did what LAPD should have done in the Susan Berman murder investigation. I agree.
I don't know if police would have had enough probable cause to secure a search warrant for docs written by him, but it's hard to believe they wouldn't have been able to get a hold of any publicly accessible forms or docs containing the handwriting of a Durst family member.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Durst made a hand-written statement for NYPD when he reported his wife Kathie missing and LAPD never even asked to check it out. NYPD's handling of the missing person case was a complete joke too -- they did virtually nothing; Kathy's friends' amateur sleuthing was much more productive. And Texas LE in the Morris Black murder case dropped the ball in many ways as well. Crappy police work, all the way around, IMO.
Anyway, Durst is being looked at as a possible POI or suspect in the disappearances of two teen girls in our neck of the woods as well, user.
MISSING NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TEENS, LINKED TO DURST?
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^ 18-year-old Kristen Modafferi (left) and 16-year-old Karen Marie Mitchell (right) were last seen in different Northern California towns in 1997.
It's unclear how seriously the authorities are looking at Durst in those cases, but Durst's apparent connection to them is intriguing.
Modafferi disappeared on June 23, 1997 after leaving work for the day at a coffee shop in a San Francisco mall. Durst owned a home in the city at the time. A 2003 Galveston County Daily News article reports that an investigative journalist who wrote a book about the disappearance of Durst's wife Kathleen believed Durst knew something about Modafferi.
Mitchell was last seen on Nov. 25, 1997 leaving her job in Eureka. Witnesses said she left in a blue sedan driven by a 60-70-year-old man with light gray or sandy blonde hair (Durst would have been much younger then, but witnesses often screw up age estimates and Durst liked to alter his appearance). A friend of Durst said Durst drove that kind of sedan back then and that he lived near and may have even visited Mitchell's place of business.
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^ Robert Durst (left); witness sketch of Karen Mitchell suspect (right)
I don't know if police would have had enough probable cause to secure a search warrant for docs written by him, but it's hard to believe they wouldn't have been able to get a hold of any publicly accessible forms or docs containing the handwriting of a Durst family member.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Durst made a hand-written statement for NYPD when he reported his wife Kathie missing and LAPD never even asked to check it out. NYPD's handling of the missing person case was a complete joke too -- they did virtually nothing; Kathy's friends' amateur sleuthing was much more productive. And Texas LE in the Morris Black murder case dropped the ball in many ways as well. Crappy police work, all the way around, IMO.
Anyway, Durst is being looked at as a possible POI or suspect in the disappearances of two teen girls in our neck of the woods as well, user.
MISSING NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TEENS, LINKED TO DURST?
^ 18-year-old Kristen Modafferi (left) and 16-year-old Karen Marie Mitchell (right) were last seen in different Northern California towns in 1997.
It's unclear how seriously the authorities are looking at Durst in those cases, but Durst's apparent connection to them is intriguing.
Modafferi disappeared on June 23, 1997 after leaving work for the day at a coffee shop in a San Francisco mall. Durst owned a home in the city at the time. A 2003 Galveston County Daily News article reports that an investigative journalist who wrote a book about the disappearance of Durst's wife Kathleen believed Durst knew something about Modafferi.
Mitchell was last seen on Nov. 25, 1997 leaving her job in Eureka. Witnesses said she left in a blue sedan driven by a 60-70-year-old man with light gray or sandy blonde hair (Durst would have been much younger then, but witnesses often screw up age estimates and Durst liked to alter his appearance). A friend of Durst said Durst drove that kind of sedan back then and that he lived near and may have even visited Mitchell's place of business.
^ Robert Durst (left); witness sketch of Karen Mitchell suspect (right)