dismembered. robert durst skipped bail and was on the rupp for a month before get ago rested in pennsylvania and extradited back to texas. his defense team argued durst was the victim in the case that his neighbor had confronted him with his gun and in the ensuing struggle, the gun went off. that in a panic, durst chopped up the body put it in garbage bags and tossed them into the sea. after deliberating for five days the jury bought that self-defense argument finding durst not guilty. even though he admitted to butchering the body dumping it and skipping bail the jury didn t find enough evidence of premeditated murder. the reason he was in galveston in the first place was because a new york prosecutor had re-opened the investigation into the 1982 disappearance of his first wife one of the people prosecutors were hoping to talk to was a friend of robert durst a woman by the name of susan berman but she was murdered in her home on benedict canyon in beverly hills in december 2000.
the victim s body was found dismembered. robert durst skipped bail and was on the rupp for a month before get ago rested in pennsylvania and extradited back to texas. his defense team argued durst was the victim in the case that his neighbor had confronted him with his gun and in the ensuing struggle, the gun went off. that in a panic, durst chopped up the body, put it in garbage bags and tossed them into the sea. after deliberating for five days the jury bought that self-defense argument finding durst not guilty. even though he admitted to butchering the body, dumping it and skipping bail the jury didn t find enough evidence of premeditated murder. the reason he was in galveston in the first place was because a new york prosecutor had re-opened the investigation into the 1982 disappearance of his first wife one of the people prosecutors were hoping to talk to was a friend of robert durst a woman by the name of susan berman but she was murdered in
under an assumed identity when he was arrested for the murder of his 71-year-old neighbor. the victim s body was found later dismembered in the bay. robert durst skipped bail and was on the run for a month before getting arrested in pennsylvania and extradited back to texas. his defense team argued durst was the victim in the case, that his neighbor had confronted him with his gun and in the ensuing struggle, the gun went off. that in a panic, durst chopped up the body, put it in garbage bags and tossed the bags into the sea. after deliberating for five days the jury bought that self-defense argument finding durst not guilty. even though he admitted to butchering the body, dumping it and skipping bail, the jury didn t find enough evidence of premeditated murder. that wasn t the only death or disappearance linked to robert durst. the reason he was in galveston in the first place according to his own testimony was because a new york prosecutor had re-opened the investigation into the 198
they want to determine if tammy meyers or someone next to her fired a gun before she died. the results reportedly supporting a self-defense argument for the 19-year-old suspect. here s a twist that we just learned, that they re not going to allow the test because the body has already been released to the family heather so it can t be done. what do you think the impact is of that? it could have a huge impact, jenna. what happens in cases like this when evidence is ruined by one party or the other the other side hoar the defense can ask for what s called an adverse inference. the jury will ultimately be instructed that this evidence would have hurt the prosecution s side and helped the defense side. so here it may actually even be better that this test was never done for the defense because
and one thing led to another and now we know what happened. the idea would be he thought he was under some sort of threat and responded. in their two different interactions, now supposedly two crime scenes that there was a threat made against him. here s the problem with his self-defense argument. one thing he told his friends according to police reports is that he drove back to the family s home, basically following the mom s car and as she and her son, or at least her son was running out of the car he is firing shots. if you are in imminent fear, you are thinking something is happening to you and you are trying to respond and you have to respond with deadly force because you are trying to fend off deadly force but if you are chasing after somebody and firing and they are not firing back there goes that imminent threat. i think the self-defense case is weak at this point, even though they are saying it could be a self-defense element. the story that changes like this, something must