Murder in disguise - Video Dailymotion

Murder in disguise - Video Dailymotion: Durst, for example, has maintained his friendship with the Altmans. In 2000, just before he fled New York, he got married again, to New York real estate broker Debrah Charatan. “This is somebody who’s been married twice, who does have some ability for human connection,” says Bernstein. “If he’s capable of normal human interaction, he’s capable of feeling emotions. And if he’s capable of feeling emotions, he’s capable of doing things that human beings do – including murder.” In Christmas 2000, another dead body was discovered – this time in Los Angeles. The victim was Susan Berman, a flamboyant writer with a storied past. Her father was Davie Berman, one of the pioneer mobsters who founded Las Vegas. The timing of Berman’s death sparked suspicion in people who followed Durst’s story. She was shot just a month after newspapers reported that police had re-opened their investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Kathie Durst. Berman was once Durst’s close friend and had been living in New York when Kathie disappeared. Investigators had planned to talk to her, but before they could meet with Berman, she was murdered, shot in the back of the head. “Susan would not have let anyone into her house. It was someone she knew,” says Kathie’s friend, Ellen Strauss. She thinks Durst killed Berman because she helped him cover up his wife’s murder back in 1982. “She knew too much.” Strauss says that the morning after Kathie disappeared, a woman called her medical school, identifying herself as Kathie, to say she wasn’t feeling well. “I think it was Susan Berman who made that call,” says Strauss. “I think that’s why Susan Berman was killed. Once the story broke about the case re-opening, I think Bob was trying to mop up all the loose ends.” Durst’s attorney, Chip Lewis, says Berman’s murder was a clear and simple mob hit: “The fact of the matter is Susan Berman had cried out soon before her murder that she was about to expose the mob in a tell-all book about what she knew. It was a hit-style murder.” But sources close to the L.A. investigation say that there wasn't any mob connection -- and that Durst is a focus of the investigation. And when Berman was found murdered in L.A., New York District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, of Westchester County, turned up the heat on the long cold case of Kathie Durst. “We really didn’t get involved in the case until after Susan Berman was shot in Los Angeles,” says Pirro. There are now active murder investigations on both coasts. In Berman’s case, Durst denies that he was in Los Angeles, but authorities tell 48 Hours that they have documents which they believe prove that he was in California at the time Berman was killed. Still, no charges have been filed, and Durst’s attorneys say it’s unfair to jump to conclusions in either the disappearance of his wife or the death of Susan Berman.