For some reason Law & Crime has suddenly stopped putting the videos of his trial up on their youtube channel. Well at least I can't find them, so no opportunity to replay. Perhaps they're going to sell the footage to a documentary maker.
I thought I noticed a distinct change in his face and speech when he was talking about delivering Kathie to the station. Definitely more signs of nerves, compared to his previous delivery of evidence, it was like his eyes were frozen on one spot, not attentive to his surroundings, a switch was flipped into automatic mode and he wouldn't pause. It was all ridiculously devoid of any mention of Kathie, like he'd rehearsed this long spiel about parking the car, the other people all waiting inside their cars, they knew the train was coming because those people suddenly got out of their cars, nothing about his interactions with Kathie, or about her at all, no mention of why he was out of the car (he said 'then I got back in the car'), then he says the train was gone and there was nothing on the platform. Pure fiction, imo.
Interesting to see the change in his demeanor.
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They've just got to the point where he spends the night in a motel (paying cash) because (allegedly) as he was driving he got a migraine and he needed to stop and take his medication and lie down, before next morning driving to Susan Berman's house, and getting lost on the way. DeGuerin asked to stop at that point and Judge said there's still two minutes available. I don't know if he was being facetious, expecting them to get on record for the first time ever Bob's version of what happened next, the whole point of this trial, in two minutes!I’m a day behind … has direct ended? I think not based on you all’s comments here … hope not! I need to be caught up before cross starts
Thank you. I was also going to mention about the dog going to the vets and not remembering this detail before. As far as I recall (which might be wrong) I thought there was something I've seen before about him killing the dog. He does go on in later testimony to say he picked up the dog from the vets on Thursday.This whole new yarn Durst has spun here about the dog going to the vet … huh???
Background - he claimed for the first time AFAIK that their dog had a hip infection & an appt to see a vet surgeon in S Salem first thing Mon morning - IIRC he said at 8 or 8:30. They were going to take the dog in for an inpatient stay of a few days then drive to drop Kathie in the Bronx at ‘her school or the hospital’ then Durst would drive on home. I can see this offers an excuse for why he couldn’t (supposedly) accompany Kathie to the city on Sunday night or let her take the car instead of the train.
BUT….. Kathie was supposed to start a new rotation that morning, a pediatric placement that would’ve been her top priority since it was her area of interest … she wouldn’t have been reporting to Einstein. The Bronx “hospital” Durst mentioned could’ve been the site of her rotation, altho IIRC it was at an outpatient clinic …. but wherever the rotation was, that would’ve been where Kathie needed to report. So Durst’s ambiguity about where he was to drop her makes no sense, along with his statement that he had no idea what rotation she was starting - she’d have had to have told him as they planned the drop-off.
BUT we heard earlier testimony that Kathie would’ve needed to be there first thing in the morning, somewhere between 7 to 9 am. And since S Salem was an hour+ from the city, with an 8/8:30 vet appt it doesn’t sound like she’d have been on time to this essential rotation in her interest area - why would she have agreed to this rushing around, lateness-inducing plan the morning she started her crucial placement??
AND then Durst went on to describe the rest of the week. IIRC no mention of ever picking up the dog from the vet …. did the dog get on the train with Kathie too or what, Bob?
AND Durst described going into the city that day to attend a closing with Douglas … well Douglas testified IIRC that Bob didn’t show up for that meeting, & that was when he first got the sense that something was wrong. Presumably Bob is lying as usual, but what a bizarre call to lie about something already contradicted on the record & also easy to check on.
Thank you. I was also going to mention about the dog going to the vets and not remembering this detail before. As far as I recall (which might be wrong) I thought there was something I've seen before about him killing the dog. He does go on in later testimony to say he picked up the dog from the vets on Thursday.
He also talks about walking the dog to the police station to report Kathie missing on the Friday, up the stairs to the detective's floor and everything, which I thought was amazing given that he hadn't been using his hip the previous week. I got the distinct impression he was building up to a story about what happened with the dog at the police station, since he spent so much time laying the foundations, but nothing came of it. Perhaps DeGuerin didn't ask the right questions to prompt him. It seems like a devious rewriting of history in any case, perhaps to counter some other claim that's going to come out on cross.
I certainly don't recall another mention of the dog in his testimony after that point but I haven't caught every word. I do intend to go back over this direct when time permits, and pull out discrepancies. He is so scheming but I think it's going to come back to bite him.
Thanks for that info.En re Durst & dogs, this is part of the mystery that still surrounds him -
Is he simply a selfish angry pig who killed his wife in a rage & then went on to kill a few others when necessary to cover his tracks? This is how Durst presents it.
But then there are other stories floating around that suggest more - that he’s actually a straight-up serial killer who practiced on dogs throughout his life & has killed multiple others with no connection to the initial crime against Kathie.
Durst has said in the past that there were three dogs, all named Igor, all of whom died naturally or were hit by cars - altho he’s mixed up & changed details of these alleged deaths. He’s also said the only part of his portrayal in All Good Things etc that bothered him was the idea that he’d killed a dog - he loves dogs & would never hurt one, he claims.
Meanwhile there are at least three young women who disappeared w/o a trace from locations near Durst over the years - one of whom was last seen shopping in his health food store in Vermont, etc. And the number of Igors he had is in dispute - usually he’s said to have had seven dogs by this name, not three.
Its easy to see why he’d lie til his dying day about the dogs! A jury might look the other way on Morris Black, but there’s no way he’d ever get off IMO if it was established (as has been said for decades) that he killed & dismembered one pet dog after another. That shows enough depraved indifference to life, love & loyalty IMO that it would be a fatal blow to any attempt to present himself as a victim of circumstance.
All his going on & on about his dogs & how well they lived, how he cared for them etc strikes me as an attempt to work this exact angle with the jury - to present the opposite of what’s in the above paragraph, that he is in fact capable of love & loyalty. Doubt it.
Nah, I was mistaken. No emotion in the old reptile.Thanks for that info.
The only time in all his testimony I think I've seen a flicker of emotion, and I might be mistaken about even that, was yesterday when he mentioned a "highschool sweetheart". I will find the spot because I want to see it again, it was a moment that really struck me.
Tuned in for a few minutes this morning too. Noticed the change in voice pitch and failure of memory too. Bob's sharp memory serves him well when he wants it to. Actually, last week he impressed me and provided a few chucklesI turned this on to see his testimony about this. His voice went up several octaves today and so weak you can hardly hear him.
Most importantly to me was how devoid he was of any emotion of finding his best friend lying there…then he can’t seem to remember writing the cadaver note, where he got the supplies for it, and mailing it.