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>> i had nothing to do with susan bermans death. durst then moved to texas where he admitted killing and dismembering his neighbor but claimed self-defense. the jury agreed. >> not guilty. >> after the director made the movie loosely based on durst. he agreed to be interviewed. >> his lawyer said i think this is a terrible idea. you have been wrongly accused for three murders over 30 years. youre a free man. >> the jinx may be dursts undoing. >> we have something the lapd is going to really want...

Has led to this arrest. there is some interesting evidence that came out that is not just this tape but the handwriting on the letters that came out in the documentary i want to ask you about. lets throw up the handwriting samples if you will. one is a letter written by robert durst. another by a unanimous person that led police to susan bermans body. in beverly hills, thats what everyone is focusing on in this documentary how similar they are and how incorrectly spelled they are. could this be,...

Alleged her brother, bill, had sexually abused her as a child. investigators wanted to know whether this was a possible motive. to see if these entries were written by nancy, investigators sent the diary to a forensic document examiner, hartford kittel. >> handwriting examinations based upon two distinct facts -- no two people write exactly alike. within the writing of a single individual, there is normal variation. its this normal variation that we associate or we dont associate with the questi...

Nice and neat and hang it up on the doorknob. >> was it possible that chris davis never called his wife? but used those 20 minutes to drive home, kill dorothy and then return to the bar to establish his alibi? a police recreation showed it was possible. average time, 17 minutes. so even though we were locked into that 20 minutes by our witness, we felt pretty comfort it was still possible for him to have gone off, committed that crime, staged the scene and got back to the nco club within that ti...

Just a few miles from the southerns home. a background check revealed melanies husband, 26-year-old jonathan binney, had recently been arrested. >> jonathan binney is out on bond for the rape of his 3-month-old daughter. >> in the suicide note, binney said he planned to kill himself because the thought of going to prison for the rape of his child was too much for him to bear. >> "the pressure i am or was under was intense. i couldnt deal with it. >> certainly found it to be a vital piece of evid...

Finds their wife lying there, perhaps mortally wounded is not going to take his jacket off nice and neat and hang it up on the doorknob. >> was it possible that chris davis never called his wife? but used those 20 minutes to drive home, kill dorothy and then return to the bar to establish his alibi? a police recreation showed it was possible. average time, 17 minutes. so even though we were locked into that 20 minutes by our witness, we felt pretty comfort it was still possible for him to have g...

Represents the strangulation. once again, this was information only the killer would know, since it hadnt been released to the public. the handwriting at the bottom of the page was consistent with brambletts known handwriting samples. firearms expert van roberts compared the bullets from the murder victims to the gun found next to blaine hodges body. even though the gun had no barrel, it still had its firing pin. under a comparison microscope, you can see the unique marks made on the shells from...

I dont know why he spared her. i have no idea. how can you spare an animal and shoot a human? >> when rich sold helbles prized pistol in texas, he left the note inside with handwriting that matched helbles known handwriting samples. >> the witness testimony and the forensic testimony piled together just added up like bricks in this case, and it was because of the two, and putting those two together, that we were able to be able to solve this case in the first place. >> douglas eugene rich. >> on...

Document examiner, hartford kittel. >> handwriting examinations based upon two distinct facts -- no two people write exactly alike. within the writing of a single individual, there is normal variation. its this normal variation that we associate or we dont associate with the questioned writing. >> surprisingly, nancy and richards handwriting looked strikingly similar. friends said this was intentional. while in college, nancy had written some of richards research papers, and she mimicked his wri...

>> document examiner gail heath compared the handwriting on the note to jonathan binneys handwriting samples. >> in this particular case, we were looking at hand printing. and hand printing can also be extremely identifiable back to an individual. most individuals when they first learn to write do learn to write from something called copy book style, which is printed letters within a textbook. >> there were a number of clear similarities. the lowercase "g," especially at the end of words, was un...