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She accepts his offer.
1973At the insistence of his father, Durst moves back to New York to rejoin the family business.
He takes Kathie with him, and the couple are married later that year.
He is 30, she 19.
Kathietellsfriends and family that Durst has become controlling and abusive, and claims heforcedher to have an abortion.
She considers divorce, but is hamstrung by anunfairprenup.
January 6, 1982After one assault, Kathie takes a friends advice andvisitsthe hospital, receiving treatment for bruises.
Before returning to the couples Westchester home, KathietellsNajamy, If something happens to me, check it out.
Im afraid of what Bobby will do.
This is the last account of her movements that comes from someone besides Durst.
February 5, 1982DurstreportsKathie missing.
But with no evidence of a crime, Kathie Dursts disappearance officially remains a missing-person case.
1983After a period of mourning in which heretreated inside himself,Durst returns to work at his familys company.
1988Durst starts datingDebrah Lee Charatan, an ambitious New York City real-estate broker.
1990Durst sells the South Salem cottage andsecretly divorceshis missing wife, citing abandonment.
1994Durst is passed over as head of his familys company in favor of his younger brother, Douglas.
(The last straw is his alleged habit ofpeeingin his uncles trashcan.)
He breaks from his family and spends the rest of the decade traveling the country as a vagabond.
He maintains an apartment in New York City, and stays in intermittent contact with Charatan.
August 2000Susan Berman, short on cash and living in Los Angeles,writesDurst a letter asking for money.
Months later, he sends her a gift: two checks, worth $25,000 each.
Around this time, New York police reach out to Berman about the newly reopened Kathie Durst case.
December 11, 2000Durst marries Charatan in a secret 15-minute ceremony.
He was not buoyant and didnt smile.
December 19, 2000Durst flies from New York City to San Francisco, then heads south, destination unknown.
December 23, 2000Durst flies back to New York from San Francisco.
There are no signs of forced entry, and all her valuables remain in place.
The LAPD considers Durst a possible subject, butfocuseson her manager, Nyle Brenner.
(The name comes from a former high-school classmate.)
He lives in a Spartan boardinghouse, where his neighbor is an elderly man named Morris Black.
September 30, 2001A family fishing in Galvestondiscoversa dismembered torso floating off the beach.
When police search the trash at the boarding house, they find a receipt with Dursts name on it.
A search of that apartment yields a bloody knife and a bloody pair of mens boots.
With Charatans help, he posts a $300,000 bail, then disappears.
October 18, 2001Posingas Morris Black, Durst rents a car in Mobile, Alabama.
November 2001A judge in New YorkdeclaresKathie Durst legally dead.
The $60,000 Durst inherits is placed in escrow until the investigation into her death is completed.
November 30, 2001Durst is finally arrested in Pennsylvania, after hes caught trying to shoplift a sandwich.
He has more than $500 in cash on him.
His car is found to contain two guns, Morris Blacks drivers license, and $37,000.
September 2003Durst goes on trial for the death of Morris Black.
November 11, 2003Durst is found not guilty of the murder of Morris Black.
September 29, 2004Durst pleadsguiltyto tampering with evidence and jumping bail.
He is sentenced to five years in prison with credit for time served.
December 2005Durst is paroled and told to stay near his home.
Durst is thrown back in jail for violating his parole.
February 7, 2006Durst receives a $65 million settlement from his family.
2010Andrew JareckisAll Good Things, a docu-drama based on Dursts life, is released.
Durst sees the film at a private screening and later tellsthe New YorkTimes, parts made me cry.
Late 2010Durst is interviewed on-camera forThe Jinxand denies any culpability in the deaths of Kathie Durst and Susan Berman.
2012Jarecki interviews Durst a second time and confronts him about the newfound envelope.
Durst is unable to identify which handwriting is not his.
In the bathroom afterwards, Durst mutters to himself, There it is, youre caught.
What the hell did I do?
Killed them all, of course.
Though Dursts microphone is on, the audio remains unexamined for two years.
Early 2013Jarecki begins sharing the results of his investigation with police.
August 16, 2013Robert Durst isarrestedfor violating a restraining order his brother had placed against him.
(InThe Jinx, the timeline is rearranged to show this arrest happening before Dursts second interview.)
Early 2014The LAPDreopensits investigation into Susan Bermans murder.
June 12, 2014TheJinxfilmmakersdiscoverthe audio of Dursts bathroom monologue.
July 24, 2014Durstturns himself inafter peeing on a candy rack in a Houston CVS.
He laterpleadsno contest to criminal mischief and receives a $500 fine.
November 2014After reexamining the cadaver letter, the LAPDconcludesthat Durst was the author.
March 10, 2015After the fifth episode ofThe Jinxintroduces the crucial envelope, Durstgoeson the run.
March 17, 2015Durst is officially charged withfirst-degree murder.
Because hes accused of murdering a witness andlying in wait,he could face the death penalty if convicted.
February 3, 2016Durstpleads guilty to the gun charge.
As part of his plea deal, he issentencedto 85 months in federal prison.
November 7, 2016Durstpleads not guiltyto the murder of Susan Berman.
January 1, 2020In a pre-trial court document, Dursts lawyersconcedehe wrote the cadaver letter.
March 2, 2020Dursts trial for the murder of Susan Bermanfinally begins.
March 15, 2020The trial isput on holddue to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before the interruption, jurors had beenpresentedwith the full context of the killed them all quotes.
May 17, 2021The murder trialresumes.
September 17, 2021Durst isconvictedfor the murder of Susan Berman.
He is later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
October 16, 2021Durst is placed on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19.
October 22, 2021State police in New York charge Durst withthe murder of his wife Kathie.
January 10, 2022Durst goes into cardiac arrest at Californias San Joaquin General Hospital anddies.
