Robert Durst
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And Durst made a wisecrack back, not on me.
This money gets wired from New York and he gets on bail.
At that point, they were like, who is this guy?
For him, $300,000 bail was chump change.
But instead of facing justice, he goes on the run.
Well, he got in his car, and he started driving.
Ultimately, he had Morris Black's license and his ID.
and he rented a car in Alabama.
Meanwhile, there is a national manhunt underway to find Bob Durst.
Police wind up busting Robert Durst in a shoplifting incident in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
At a Wegmans grocery store, he is busted shoplifting a sandwich, a Band-Aid, and a newspaper.
When he stole that sandwich, he had $38,000 in the trunk of his car.
They realized, though, very quickly that this was no ordinary shoplifter.
This was the man who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt, and they sent him back down to Texas to face justice.
There were reporters from all over the country coming to Galveston to watch this trial.
He gets on the stand, admits he killed him, admits he dismembered him.
Bobby Durst is arrested for murder of his neighbor, who he chopped up and put his body parts in Galveston Bay.
But it wasn't until the fall of 2003 that the trial began.
Are we ready to bring the jury out?