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In ‘Who Killed the Gangster’s Daughter?’ from the March 12, 2001, issue of New York Magazine, Lisa DePaulo writes about Robert Durst and the death of Susan Berman.

Where is Veronica Mars when you need her? She could have closed this case years ago.

Two decades after his lovely young wife vanished, Robert Durst, scion of a Manhattan real-estate family worth billions, faces new murder charges. A cold case is now red-hot news, with a gangland-style execution, a headless torso, a manhunt, and revelations that Durst led part of his double life as a woman

Susan Berman, a crime writer and self-described 'mafia princess' was killed inside her Benedict Canyon home in 2000. Now, her best friend, Robert Durst, focus of HBO's "The Jinx," is scheduled to go to trial accused of her murder.

For depressions. >> up where he killed her, i believe he killed her, you couldnt are buried a body up there. it was frozen. down there, you can take this -- >> yeah. >> its like a composting. all the bacterial action causes its own heat. >> okay. so you can dig here in -- at the end of january and beginning of february? >> oh, absolutely. >> okay. all right. although they did not find her, tom has never stopped looking for kathleen durst. >> how many times have you searched this area, tom? >> on...

Once a laundromat in the small town of ship bottom, new jersey. ship bottom is located on long beach island around 25 miles north of atlantic city and just four miles from the pine baron. that put durst near a known burial ground right after cathy vanished. i sent john down there in 2002 to meet up with a legendary local tracker and survivalist. >> hi, im tom brown. im known as the tracker. i have been in tracking for 54 years of my life. ive solved over 600 tracking cases. ive been shot three t...

Writes in green ink. durst killed her. with the money -- >> misspelled. >> beverly is misspelled. >> okay. why did l.a. not solve this case? >> because they had at the time they had no idea who bobby durst was. >> she let him into the house. >> no forced entry, right? >> he shot her in the back of the head. >> do you think she knew what was coming? >> i dont think so. i think she was completely naive. >> she knew what he was capable of. whether or not she thought he was capable of doing anything...

Days before roberting his wife missing to new york city authorities. >> he carried a magazine with a picture on the front. the five men who really own manhattan. and dont you know seymour durst was right in the middle. he said, you know who i am, right? >> gilberta never stopped believing that robert was responsible for her best friends disappearance. >> what led you to think that he might be involved in kathleens disappearance? >> the first week he had thrown away her mail. it was unopened. her...

Up that phone and called the medical school. susan was telling the media they thought she just ran away. that she was left and susan putting that out to the media so i think that was why she sort of spoon fed them. she was a member of the media. she would have walked on fire for the man and she did. >> we recently took a trip down to the pine barons in southern new jersey. why? because its the dense million acre forest. a really great place to bury a body. mobsters did it all the time. when i fi...

>> no one was listening. >> at the time i got it, i was listening. >> you were patient and had a reputation as the office did of being relentless. >> let me tell you, im going to be in the courtrooms until the day that man goes to prison. today robert durst sits in a jail cell in new orleans. reports are that his health is failing that he has cancer and water on the brain. but i hope he lives long enough to stand trial in los angeles for the murder of his friend susan berman. and recently kathle...