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In the fall of 1971, Durst met Kathleen "Kathie" McCormack, a dental hygienist. After two dates, Durst invited McCormack to share his home in Vermont, where Durst had opened a health food store; she moved there in January 1972. However, Durst's father pressured him to move back to New York to work in the family real estate business. Durst and McCormack returned to Manhattan, where they married in April 1973.
Kathie Durst was last seen alive the evening of January 31, 1982, at a friend's party in Newtown, Connecticut; she left for South Salem, New York, after a call from her husband. Although the couple argued and fought, Durst maintained that he put his wife on a train to New York City, had a drink with a neighbor, and spoke to his wife by telephone later that evening. "That's what I told police," Durst later told documentary filmmakers. "I was hoping that would just make everything go away."
Kathie Durst had been treated at a Bronx hospital for facial bruises three weeks before, telling a friend Durst beat her; she had asked Durst for a $250,000 divorce settlement. Durst had cancelled his wife's credit card, removed her name from a joint bank account, and refused to pay her medical school tuition; she was in her final year at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and intended to become a pediatrician. At the time she went missing, Robert Durst had been dating Prudence Farrow for three years and living in a separate apartment. Durst initially offered $100,000 for his wife's return, then reduced the reward to $15,000. Not long afterwards, Durst was seen discarding his wife's possessions.
In 1999, New York State Police quietly re-opened the criminal investigation into Kathie Durst's disappearance, searching Durst's former South Salem residence for the first time. The investigation became public in November 2000.
In the fall of 1971, Durst met Kathleen "Kathie" McCormack, a dental hygienist. After two dates, Durst invited McCormack to share his home in Vermont, where Durst had opened a health food store; she moved there in January 1972. However, Durst's father pressured him to move back to New York to work in the family real estate business. Durst and McCormack returned to Manhattan, where they married in April 1973.
Kathie Durst was last seen alive the evening of January 31, 1982, at a friend's party in Newtown, Connecticut; she left for South Salem, New York, after a call from her husband. Although the couple argued and fought, Durst maintained that he put his wife on a train to New York City, had a drink with a neighbor, and spoke to his wife by telephone later that evening. "That's what I told police," Durst later told documentary filmmakers. "I was hoping that would just make everything go away."
Kathie Durst had been treated at a Bronx hospital for facial bruises three weeks before, telling a friend Durst beat her; she had asked Durst for a $250,000 divorce settlement. Durst had cancelled his wife's credit card, removed her name from a joint bank account, and refused to pay her medical school tuition; she was in her final year at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and intended to become a pediatrician. At the time she went missing, Robert Durst had been dating Prudence Farrow for three years and living in a separate apartment. Durst initially offered $100,000 for his wife's return, then reduced the reward to $15,000. Not long afterwards, Durst was seen discarding his wife's possessions.
In 1999, New York State Police quietly re-opened the criminal investigation into Kathie Durst's disappearance, searching Durst's former South Salem residence for the first time. The investigation became public in November 2000.