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On December 24, 2000, Durst's longtime friend, Susan Berman, who had facilitated Durst's public alibi after Kathie's disappearance and who had recently received $50,000 from Durst, was found murdered execution-style in her Benedict Canyon house in California. Durst is known to have been in Northern California days before Berman was killed, and to have flown from San Francisco to New York the night before Berman's body was discovered. Although Durst confirmed to the Los Angeles Police Department that he had recently sent Berman $25,000, and faxed investigators a copy of Berman's 1982 deposition regarding his missing wife, he declined to be further questioned about Berman's murder.
Durst said in a 2005 deposition that Berman called him shortly before her death and said: "The Los Angeles police contacted me. They wanted to talk about Kathie Durst’s disappearance.” A study of case notes by The Guardian cast doubt on whether the Los Angeles police had made such a call, or whether then-Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro had scheduled an interview with Berman at all. According to prosecutors, Durst moved to Galveston, Texas in 2000, lived in a boarding house, and began posing as a mute woman to avoid police inquiries. Durst had been tipped off to the re-opened investigation into his wife's disappearance on October 31, 2000, and immediately began planning for life as a fugitive. (Contacted at the time by the New York Daily News, Durst said "I know nothing about it, but I would not have any comment.")
On December 24, 2000, Durst's longtime friend, Susan Berman, who had facilitated Durst's public alibi after Kathie's disappearance and who had recently received $50,000 from Durst, was found murdered execution-style in her Benedict Canyon house in California. Durst is known to have been in Northern California days before Berman was killed, and to have flown from San Francisco to New York the night before Berman's body was discovered. Although Durst confirmed to the Los Angeles Police Department that he had recently sent Berman $25,000, and faxed investigators a copy of Berman's 1982 deposition regarding his missing wife, he declined to be further questioned about Berman's murder.
Durst said in a 2005 deposition that Berman called him shortly before her death and said: "The Los Angeles police contacted me. They wanted to talk about Kathie Durst’s disappearance.” A study of case notes by The Guardian cast doubt on whether the Los Angeles police had made such a call, or whether then-Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro had scheduled an interview with Berman at all. According to prosecutors, Durst moved to Galveston, Texas in 2000, lived in a boarding house, and began posing as a mute woman to avoid police inquiries. Durst had been tipped off to the re-opened investigation into his wife's disappearance on October 31, 2000, and immediately began planning for life as a fugitive. (Contacted at the time by the New York Daily News, Durst said "I know nothing about it, but I would not have any comment.")