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out what happened. i have never seen anything like it. >> a missing wife. >> everything about this wreaks of murder. >> a murdered best friend. a dead neighbor. >> they try to understand. >> now, the stories that you have not heard. as the friends of robert durst speak out. >> i hope and i pray, when all this is done, we all get answers. >> and here they own account of the strange life. the reclusive millionaire spent much of his time on the road, so where was he? what was he doing? wh...

Investigators also working the case, a possible connection. >> there were credit card records that placed durst in the eureka area the day that this girl disappeared. >> reporter: the transaction was just up the coast in trinidad, maybe 20 minutes or so by car from that spot where the witness saw a girl picked up on the road in eureka. and then, before the trial in galveston, birkbeck heard this. >> i have a really good source that was close to the defense team. and i was told that durst, he was...

Than that, said the psychic. susan was afraid of bob, she said, because she knew too much. she knew his secrets. >> towards the end of her life she was very agitated with him. >> reporter: would he save her? susan didnt know, said barbara. and then, just before christmas, 2000, she said susan let her know that bob was on the way with money. >> he said, "ill bring it." and thats what happened. but i cant prove it. >> reporter: l.a. cops have long suspected bob did go to susans house in l.a. but n...

In 1997, a pretty teenager named karen mitchell was helping out at her aunt annie caspars shoe store. >> i did not ever meet robert durst, but my manager, she said she remembered him because he just dressed as a woman. >> reporter: karen might well have met robert durst, said aunt annie. she often helped eurekas homeless population, people among whom bob was known to mingle. we cant know for sure. but we do know she was in bobs neighborhood. more than once. >> karen used to go to trinidad on the...

Andy mills was the eureka police chief at the time. >> robert durst is a person of interest in this case. >> reporter: hes definitely in the mix? >> he is in the mix. someone that we will consider as part of our larger investigation. >> reporter: the chief was not alone. the fbi and the humboldt county d.a. were investigating a possible bob durst connection, too. however, durst was not the only person of interest. there were five others. >> the evidence, the circumstantial evidence, is just not ...

And then he would get a skirt, you know, and try to match it up, you know, and most of the time he couldnt. so i would try and help him match. >> reporter: kay had seen her share of cross-dressers, but there was something different about this one. >> he wanted to be somebody else besides robert durst. >> reporter: which might explain another untold story of those years -- an odd and so far unexplained habit of frequenting eurekas seedy side. >> hanging out at a -- it was a homeless shelter/soup ...

In 1997, a pretty teenager named karen mitchell was helping out at her aunt annie caspars shoe store. >> i did not ever meet robert durst, but my manager, she said she remembered him because he just dressed as a woman. >> reporter: karen might well have met robert durst, said aunt annie. she often helped eurekas homeless population, people among whom bob was known to mingle. we cant know for sure. but we do know she was in bobs neighborhood more than once. >> karen used to go to trinidad on the ...

Up, you know, and most of the time, he couldnt. so i would try and help him match. >> reporter: kay had seen her share of cross-dressers, but there was something different about this one. >> he wanted to be somebody else besides robert durst. >> reporter: which might explain another untold story of those years -- an odd and so far unexplained habit of frequenting eurekas seedy side. >> hanging out at a -- it was a homeless shelter/soup kitchen. >> reporter: wait a minute. he bought a house and h...

From some independent investigators also working the case, a possible connection. >> there were credit card records that placed durst in the eureka area the day that this girl disappeared. >> reporter: the transaction was just up the coast in trinidad, maybe 20 minutes or so by car from that spot where the witness saw a girl picked up on the road in eureka. and then, before the trial in galveston, birkbeck heard this. >> i have a really good source that was close to the defense team. and i was t...

>> towards the end of her life, she was very agitated with him. >> reporter: would he save her? susan didnt know, said barbara. and then, just before christmas 2000, she said susan let her know that bob was on the way with money. >> he said, "ill bring it." and thats what happened. but i cant prove it. >> reporter: l.a. cops have long suspected bob did go to susans house in l.a. but not to bring her more money. to prevent her from talking -- ever. we do know from flight records, and bobs own per...