Day 6 - John Lewin Cross Examines Robert Durst For The Murder of Friend Susan Berman Part 21
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- LIVE COVERAGE: Robert Durst Testifies Live For The Murder of Friend Susan Berman
Trial Day 50
Robert Durst stands trial for the 2000 murder of friend Susan Berman. The trial began just before the pandemic in early 2020 and was halted two weeks in. The restart happened on May 17, 2021, with the same jury panel.
The defendant’s wife Kathleen McCormack Durst went missing in 1982. Evidence and testimony would show that Robert Durst killed her, the prosecutor said. The defendant allegedly told Berman it was an accident and asked her for help. She served as his alibi.
Berman, 55, was shot execution-style at her Beverly Hills home in 2000, and the prosecution suggested that it was because of what she knew about Kathleen’s death and disappearance. As defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin would have it, however, Durst is innocent. His client only came across the body, panicked, and fled, he maintained.
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That judge is the most calm, thorough and thoughtful judge ever
I don’t know why they said testifying could kill him. He has been on that stand for days and answers slowly because he is trying to think what he said in the past. Once he has thought up an answer he speaks quickly. There is nothing wrong with his memory just remembering the lies he told before!
And he is perfectly able to hear. Just wants more time to figurer out, what to answer because of all the lies, he previously told.
The worst mistake the Defendant made is taking the witness stand and testifying on his own behalf.
Absolutely agree!
So he can remember verbatim his phone conversation but can’t remember what motel he stayed at? I call BS
I don’t think the word “staycation” was used back in 2000. Unless he’s saying Susie coined the term lol
“I’m continuing to rustle with out schedule” It’s only been a year..lol
He forgot to put on his “I can barely utter a word because I’m so sick” act today.
I want everyone to go through 24 hours of actual time spent on questioning him and being question in way to be caught in a lie to see how you will do
This case needs to be concluded before that. This Judge has allowed the attorneys to belabor a trial that should never have taken this long.
Amen!
Why oh why would the judge act like a clown 🤡 🤔 😐 😕 😒 🙄 during a MURDER trial!
And celebrate his father's birthday which only means something to him
Anyone who says Durst has Alzheimer's clearly doesn't get what that is. The is a very smart and manipulative person with an amazing memory. However, he's just not as fast and as good as he clearly used to be in his younger days, as he's really struggling keeping up with the lies. I don't know how this prosecutor is keeping it together at all, the way Durst is screwing with him and the jury.
Also, he conveniently appears lost and confused whenever he gets asked something difficult
Lewin finally asks some important questions in this session. Why did he take so long to get there? He could’ve pursued this topic during the first hour of his cross examination, instead he wasted hours on irrelevant topics like how much Durst paid the high school kid to maintain his lawn in 1982, whether he owned one or two sailboats, etc. Or maybe Lewin was attempting to bore Durst into revealing his guilt by fatigue?
Every question Lewin has asked so far has had a purpose. The question about the lawnmower girl was all about testing Durst's memory. He does have a very convenient memory. The sailboat question was very important one to bring up. He wants the jury to hear how it was possible to take his wife's body to sea. He hasn't wasted any time or asked irrelevant questions. He has often gone back to those questions and answers and caught Durst lying. The best prosecutor I've ever seen in action! The reason why he got off in his first trial was that the prosecution never checked out the small details but took his word (lies) for everything. Lewin has brought up some of those inconsistencies also.
@@erjatikka3029 Lewin lost these jurors long ago with his ridiculous tit for tat questioning. If he had any good points to make, he lost them by burying them in minutiae.
those topics were important because there's a note that can easily be interpreted as Durst's list of ways to dispose of his wife's body, but only if you don't believe Durst's alternate explanations. That note could be enough to persuade someone he's guilty, or there could be one juror who believes Durst's story about the boat and Barry Weiner are plausible enough to create reasonable doubt....at the time, Lewin couldn't know, so he took the time to try & demolish that story
He knows what he saying he killed her and keep lying
I just realised 2 things. 1. The message he started leaving as Susan screens call would be there or possibly could be recovered to prove if he made this call at time he said.
2. She was waiting for him to arrive so they could leave….where was her packed suitcase?
I just zoomed in on google maps and there are actually 3 hotels just off the 5 Freeway at the Bakersfield junction so I'm not sure what Lewin was trying to get at there.
$$$
Lewin isn’t sure what Lewin is trying to get at.
He became a millionaire because he was born into it didn't earn it
he gets an allowance of 2 or 3 million dollars per year from a trust that his father seymour set up.
And if he had worked at it he could have been a multi billionaire like his brother.
Aaand your point is....?
Rigor mortis Can start 3 hours after death. So she could have been dead when he got there.
He said she was not stiff.
@@VictoriaGirlBC Yes that's true. But she might not have been dead that long.
Lewen seems like he’s struggling more than durst he talks some garabage absolutely no point in half of what he asks and the judge is clearly
On his side
Amen Alan!! So profound!
Come on Lewin pull out the phone records and Amex card.
I hope all billionaires gets the same kind of interrogation....
That's not true about the rigor and timeline. She could of been killed at 9-10am that morning
Omg, what was the prosecutor doing
Ummm, an excellent job?!
Being amazing 🧐
Does Durst ever tell the truth 🤔
What were all lies?? I'm not seeing al these lies tbh
@@jjeanjohnston244 then you haven't been listening lol
@@jjeanjohnston244 Ditto.
Only if it benefits him 😉.
Rigor mortise can take up too six or seven hours depending upon temperature 🌡 at time then the body can start to soften then start to decompose obviously on the temperature
I do get that rd is a frail man now but he wasn't so frail when he took three life's, he's been caught out numerous times, why doesn't he just give up now he's not doing himself any favours just wasting the justice systems time and money now 😒
Wait a minute 😳 🤔 this is my first time watching about this so, I only know what I know from this video. Did that lawyer say that rigor mortise sets in after 18 hours and lasts up to 30 hours? If so, then if this guy got there 11 hours after he talked with her on the phone, of course she wasn't in rigor mortis yet, she wasn't dead that long.
I believe he's 🤥 lying, given the totality of all the inconsistencies in his testimony. Yet, in all fairness, the conversation(if he had one) was a long time ago, in consideration to claims (if it was diagnosed) of being on the Autism Spectrum, he might not have placed more importance on the possibility of her speaking to a person as he would to the importance of any other aspect of the conversation. I do think 🤔 he shouldn't have testified if acquittal is the goal.
Cork rockingham
Funny how all of your can past judgement. He is super old and his memory isn’t as good as it use to be. You already said he was guilty before the trial
true, I said he was guilty after he chopped up a body & dumped it in Galveston Bay, his wife went missing after a years-long history of domestic violence & his own brother publicly announced he was scared Bob was going to kill him. & I was right
This prosecutor is a spoiled brat. You have gotten your way this whole trial. The defense makes a good objection because your question calls for speculation how about she went into rigor because the window which the detectives testified were open as well as the back door and that can throw off the state of decomposition and can make her also feel cold when Robert claims he put his hand over her mouth. What if Seymour durst hired a hit man to take out Susan Because she was running her mouth and he couldn’t afford for the durst name to be associated with a murder so he did that not knowing Robert was going to do what he did in Galveston and Robert really did find her and loved her so much he couldn’t stand for her to rot there on that floor because even the prosecutor stated he loved her more than anyone. So he wrote the cadaver note. What if Seymour also got rid of Kathy but Robert knew and told Susie and had her call the school establishing an alibi because he knew that he’d be blamed. I think he really does have autism because my brother has aspergers and he’s just as literal as Robert is. So when Robert said “kill em all? Of course.” He was talking to himself in the bathroom like a lot of us do but because he’s so monotone; his inflection in his voice sounds like one octave all the time. So if I was a juror I would see all of this reasonable explanation for some of what’s happened in the trial and I couldn’t convict him just because you don’t know what you don’t know.
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I’m sorry if this seems an elementary question, but how did this man become a millionaire? This whole things makes my head hurt !! Yes I agree he looks like a spoiled elderly man.
He is an heir to a family fortune made in the NY real estate business. He admits he barely worked in his adult life, (the family ran him out of the business eventually)
@@heatherstewart2426 , Thank you !! That explains a bunch about his way of answering the questions... He’s never had to answer for anything , and it shows !! Thanks again , have a good day 😊
Father made his younger brother an executive and forced Robert out of the day to day but still paid him a salary to keep him away. Without the position he assumed he'd be getting he cracked big time and began killing various family dogs shared with his wife to practice dismemberment. He later dismembered his neighbor in quote on quote self defense and told the police it's easy to dismember, just like chicken cutlets. Being a psychologist I had to deep dive on this living demon 😈
he gets about 2 or 3 million per year from his daddys trust fund.
@@infinite8382 someone said he got paid $60mill after long litigation..this guy has been in litigation all his life..will die litigating