This handsome, rich, smart and melancholy man has become the prime suspect in a number of murders.
Real stories are always a hundred times better than TV dramas.
Conan has a divine skill that there is bound to be a murder wherever he is.
however, real stories are always a hundred times better than TV dramas.
there is a man in the United States whose life is involved in all kinds of murders. He is not Conan, he is the number one suspect that the police can't do anything about.
he is the protagonist of Robert Doust (Robert Durst), HBO's crime documentary New York disaster.
who is Robert Doust?
this probably starts with his family. Robert comes from the most famous real estate tycoon family in New York, has huge family wealth, is a veritable rich N generation.
however, he has been involved in murder all his life.
he is closely related to the disappearance of his first wife, Kathy Doust;
is suspected of murdering neighbor Maurice Black and dismembering the body;
his brother has to hire a bodyguard to protect himself from his brother;
he was arrested on March 14, 2015, on suspicion of murdering his best friend Susan Berman (his best friend for life) for 15 years.
other small cases of theft and carrying marijuana will not be mentioned.
Why does a lucky boy bear with a golden key become a demon in the mouth of others? Maybe it starts from his childhood.
Robert and his mother have a very good relationship. When it comes to the days he spent with his mother, "Happy, happy, happy", he said it three times in a row, in a light tone.
he could have lived happily: reading, falling in love, marrying Bai Fu Mei, inheriting the family business, and achieving the pinnacle of his life. But the trajectory of life slowly changed when he was seven years old.
he witnessed his mother's death.
"my father took me out of the room, and then he said, I want you to come with me to see my mother. Then we looked at the roof from the window of the hall, where my mother was. So I waved to my mother. I don't know if she saw me. I never wondered why she was standing on the roof in her pajamas. " He spoke as if he were a seven-year-old boy.
then came the screams of the maid and the mother jumped from the building.
Mother's fall created Robert's withdrawn and world-weary personality. From then on, he skipped class, ran away from home, and was full of resentment against his father.
those complicated murders
Morris was happier until he met his first wife, Kathy Doust.
they met at a friend's party, and then Robert launched a passionate pursuit of Kathy, which is exactly the real version of Cinderella.
when he was young, Robert was handsome, rich, smart, and elegant, and he had an air of indifference and melancholy and didn't know how to get along with others. Does that sound familiar? It is entirely the hero of Mary Sue's novel! No wonder Kathy blushed and her heartbeat easily. In short, they soon fell in love and got married.
(girls, be careful if you have melancholy, rich and handsome in the future)
but in the 9-year marriage, there are more and more contradictions between them. He is tired of talking with his mother-in-law and fitting in with the ordinary family behind his wife. He just wants to control her. The escalating quarrel put the marriage on the verge of falling apart.
suddenly one night, his wife Kathy disappeared.
No one can find her, as if she had disappeared. When questioned by the police, Robert said he took Kathy to the train station in Manhattan and then returned to the villa. On the way to the neighbor's house for a drink, then called his wife on the payphone, Kathy said, "everything is going well."
when Casey returned to Manhattan, the doorman at the Doust building said she had seen her go home on Sunday night. On Monday, she called the dean of the college and said she couldn't go to class because she was ill.
nothing has been heard from since then.
Kathy's family and friends felt that Robert had something to do with it.
he is grumpy, controlling, disgusted with human beings, and has absolutely nothing to do with the word "friendly". Whether they are family or friends, they are gradually moving away from him.
however, the doom has not stopped.
in 2000, Robert's good friend Susan Berman was murdered. Died at home, shot in the back of the head, bloody.
although many people stay away from Robert, Susan has always had a special friendship with him. They often get together and talk about ideas when they make good personal friends. "he is as strong as my father, he resonates, he is rich, he can always get me out of trouble, and he needs me."
A bosom friend for many years, but not an egg.
some people think the gang did it, others think Robert killed her.
A very critical piece of evidence has emerged. Beverly Hills police received a letter with the address where Susan's body was located. The date of the postmark on the letter was exactly the day before the body was found. Besides the killer, who else would send this letter?
what's more, during the shooting of the New York Cataclysm, Susan's son sorted out her belongings, including a letter from Robert to Susan, dated in March of that year, before Susan was killed.
the font of the cover address is the same as the letter received by the Beverly Hills police.
there is the same misspelled "Beverly" below.
identified by experts, Robert's handwriting matches that of the anonymous sender.
not only the director and Susan's son are emotional. Move, I was shocked in front of the screen.
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then came 2001, and bad luck came again. This time it's Morris Blake, an old buddy from Texas.
this year, Robert, whose painting style is not quite right, suddenly has boundless love for cross-dressing. He began to play a woman and named her Dorothy Heaney. Then he flew to Texas to rent a hotel, and his neighbor was the unfortunate victim.
according to the police description, the victim Morris was not a man with a good temper. He is prone to irritability, serious insanity, and conflict with others.
however, Robert and Morris get along well with each other. A few months after becoming a neighbor, Robert stopped pretending to be a woman in front of Morris and admitted that he pretended to be a woman because he wanted to avoid some people and get rid of the identity of Robert Doust.
they watched TV together, went to the coffee shop for coffee, talked, and sympathized with each other.
if it goes on like this, it is not far from revolutionary friendship.
however, Morris received a notice to move out with a clear meaning: get out of here. Morris began to get angry and fired a shot at the notice in Robert's room.
Robert was frightened and asked him to get out of his room, too.
when Robert came home, he found Morris sitting in his chair, turned around, and approached him with a gun.
the two men fought and struggled, and accidentally, the gun went off. Morris pawn.
what a coincidental misfire, it is simply the arrangement of fate.
something very weird is coming.
Robert dismembered Morris's body. You heard me right, dismemberment.
"I didn't kill him, but I dismembered him," Robert said such a thing in court. In the New York Cataclysm, he calmly explains the reason for his dismemberment: it is easy to carry and it is convenient for him to destroy the body.
Morris is also his friend.
and go back to the first case: the disappearance of Morris's wife. The producers of the New York Cataclysm received a secret report on the 1982 case, which was the first investigation of the case by a lead investigator of the New York State organized Crime Unit at the time.
the data shows how Robert gave his private investigator a different account of where he called Casey on the night of January 31: the locations of the three interviews were all inconsistent.
in an interview with the investigator, the doorman also said that he had not seen Casey that night.
are all lies and perjury.
this reminds me of Netflix's crime documentary "Making a murderer". Ironically, the two cases are opposite.
the heroin "making a murderer" was framed and imprisoned by the police for 18 years. After being wronged, he lived in society for only two years and was arrested on murder charges. This time, it's life imprisonment.
the mother of the hero said, "the poor always lose."
does it mean that the rich always win?
an investigator in the "New York disaster" said the following words:
as a murder investigator
you work for God
because the victim cannot tell his story
you are the one who represents the victim
you are doing this for God
there are still many truths in this case that have not been told
until
I also think I let. "
he didn't go on, and he burst into tears.
I can't help feeling that the world is so big that there are all kinds of wonders. Director Andrew had a fondness for the character Robert before and even at the beginning of the documentary, believing that he was innocent.
however, with the deepening of interviews and research, some mysteries are solved, and the truth seems to have a vaguely new face.
at the end of the documentary, all interviews are over. But Robert seemed to forget to take off his headset and whispered to himself in the bathroom, "what have I done?" Kill them all. "
is this his mistake, or is it another arrangement to tease the world?
many people find Robert very attractive. Elegant, determined, smart, the self-cultivation of the children of the rich family is clear at a glance. But at the same time, his contradiction, isolation, and confusion make people have an impulse to explore.
he is so complicated that it is difficult for you to treat him as a real criminal. He was even a star, and an interview won the attention of the world.
but this is not a novel. There should always be some difference between the ethics and morality of the real world and the tragedy of the characters in the novel.
putting aside him and all the labels and halos of Robert, don't you think there's something deep in the ground that we need to dig?