the police never found the head but would later identify the body parts as belonging to 74-year-old morris black. morris black lived here, a low-income area of galveston, where his, in a a mute woman named dorothy signer, lived next door. the police would soon find out his neighbor was actually multimillionaire robert durst. he was hiding out in galveston because i had reopened the 1982 case of his missing wife kathleen as westchester d.a. he had rented an apartment dressed as a female, wearing a wig, wearing makeup. on the emmy award-winning hbo documentary series the jinx robert durst discusses his reasoning for the disguise. in terms of the disguise that you chose, you know, you talk about that in galveston. it s the only disguise i could think of. i m a guy. what is a guy going to do? i could grow a beard and a
not what do i say but how do i say it. i never intentionally, purposefully lied. i made mistakes. i did not tell the whole truth. nobody tells the whole truth. the guy lies for a living and he lies very well. let s talk about the fact that he lied about me. he and his lawyers, which is one of the reasons i got involved even after i left as d.a., they say the reason he chopped up a body is because i was chasing him and he had to chop the body up. i mean, how did that how did you get the lawyers to admit it? well, if you watch in episode 4, there s really a quite elaborate discussion between the lawyers of how they strategized. and one of the lawyers says, well, we kind of created this mythical creature in jeanine pirro, we knew that it would be persuasive to the jury if we could say that bob had run to galveston because he was running away from the investigation of
this careerist driven d.a., who was really just trying to use this to further her own ambitions. but that really was something that we sort of trumped up for the jury. and it played really well, and they ate that up, says the lawyer. were you surprised, marc? i mean, we all believe in truth and justice. but when you actually hear defense attorneys say you know, what let s blame it on the d.a., i mean, you know, the devil made me do it, never heard i the d.a. made this guy chop up a body. i mean, were you disappointed in the system? no. i think you that made a big noise back there, and the question is not whether back in 2000 bob was running away from you because you were all over the newspapers, which we know you were not. it s the question of what was he rung away from? was he running away from you because you were investigating the disappearance of his wife? did he kill his wife? well, you know, i think people are going to come to their own conclusions about this. come on,
this careerist driven d.a., who was really just trying to use this to further her own ambitions. but that really was something that we sort of trumped up for the jury. and it played really well, and they ate that up, says the lawyer. were you surprised, marc? i mean, we all believe in truth and justice. but when you actually hear defense attorneys say you know, what let s blame it on the d.a., i mean, you know, the devil made me do it, never heard i the d.a. made this guy chop up a body. i mean, were you disappointed in the system? no. i think you that made a big noise back there, and the question is not whether back in 2000 bob was running away from you because you were all over the newspapers, which we know you were not. it s the question of what was he rung away from? was he running away from you because you were investigating the disappearance of his wife? did he kill his wife? well, you know, i think people are going to come to their own conclusions about this. come on,
the police never found the head but would later identify the body parts as belonging to 74-year-old morris black. morris black lived here, a low-income area of galveston, where his, in a a mute woman named dorothy signer, lived next door. the police would soon find out his neighbor was actually multimillionaire robert durst. he was hiding out in galveston because i had reopened the 1982 case of his missing wife kathleen as westchester d.a. he had rented an apartment dressed as a female, wearing a wig, wearing makeup. on the emmy award-winning hbo documentary series the jinx robert durst discusses his reasoning for the disguise. in terms of the disguise that you chose, you know, you talk about that in galveston. it s the only disguise i could think of. i m a guy. what is a guy going to do?