A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst
by Matt Birkbeck
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The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentary The Jinx have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst's NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey--the very book found in Durst's own apartment when it was searched by police. When medical student Kathie Durst vanished in 1982, she was married to Robert Durst, son of a New York real estate magnate. Kathie's friends had reason to implicate her husband. show more They told police that Kathie lived in terror of Robert, and that she had uncovered incriminating financial evidence about him. But Durst's secrets went even deeper. For decades, Kathie's disappearance remained a mystery. Then in 2001, Durst, an heir to an empire valued at two billion dollars, was arrested for shoplifting in Pennsylvania. When the police brought him in, they discovered that he was a suspect in the murder of Texas drifter Morris Black, whose dismembered remains were found floating in Galveston Bay, and that Durst was also wanted for questioning in the killing of his friend, Susan Burman, in Los Angeles. Based on interviews with family, friends, and acquaintances of Durst, law enforcement, and others involved in the case, A Deadly Secret is a cross-country odyssey of stolen IDs and multiple identities that raises baffling questions about one of the country's most prominent families--and one of its most elusive suspected killers. show lessTags
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On Monday, October 22, 2007 I wrote.....
Well that was a nice surprise after all.
I started reading and to be honest I thought at first it was not going to be a good book, but after a while I really got into it.
So much so I just checked Internet to see what happened with Robert Durst.
The way this author writes, he makes you really get to know the people involved.
To bad there are still so many questions left. I believe he killed and killed more than once.
Reading on court TV the jury acquitted him, unbelievable to most people, including me. Thank God they found ways to get him behind bars after all.
Very interesting book.
9 out of 10...
Well that was a nice surprise after all.
I started reading and to be honest I thought at first it was not going to be a good book, but after a while I really got into it.
So much so I just checked Internet to see what happened with Robert Durst.
The way this author writes, he makes you really get to know the people involved.
To bad there are still so many questions left. I believe he killed and killed more than once.
Reading on court TV the jury acquitted him, unbelievable to most people, including me. Thank God they found ways to get him behind bars after all.
Very interesting book.
9 out of 10...
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Matt Birkbeck is an author and journalist who has written articles for The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Reader's Digest and Boston Magazine. He is a former newspaper reporter who joined business publisher Harrison Scott Publications, covering Wall Street and regulatory issues in Washington, D.C. He has written several books including show more his biography on Sammy Davis Jr., Deconstructing Sammy: Music, Money, Madness and the Mob. His other title's include: A Deadly Secret, A Beautiful Child, The Quiet Don, and A Deadly Secret: The Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst
- Alternate titles
- A Deadly Secret ( [2015]) ( [2015])
- Original publication date
- 2002-09-03
- People/Characters
- Robert Durst; Kathie Durst
- Related movies
- The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015 | IMDb); The Lost Wife of Robert Durst ( 2017 | IMDb)
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 364.1523 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Criminology Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Murder
- LCC
- HV6762 .U5 .B57 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
- BISAC
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- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
