Murder in Beverly Hills
Robert Durst has been arrested for murder!
Growing up, Susan Berman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas Mob royalty, the daughter of a Mob boss who ran the Flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy. But halfway through her childhood, dream exploded. Susan's father died without warning during a routine surgery. Next, Susie Berman's mother died by her own hand the next year when she overdosing on drugs. Susie was whisked away from the only home she'd ever known, parentless and living with an uncle and his family and sent away to boarding school. Fast forward to college where Susan met her soul mate, Robert Durst. They became best friends and each other's confidants. Durst went to work for his wealthy father at the Durst Organization in Manhattan while Susan became a journalist, writing about women's cultural issues for newspapers and magazines. She followed Durst to New York, where he married the beautiful Kathie McCormack. Then, Kathie disappeared and Susan stood by her best friend Robert, despite suspicions that Durst had caused the demise of his wife. Twenty years later, as police closed in on Durst and reopened the case, seeking to interview his best friends, Susan was murdered. Few clues were found. Who did it and why? Was it the Mob? A trusted friend? Murder in Beverly Hills (an updated, revised edition of Murder of a Mafia Daughter) answers those questions. Exclusive information about the investigation is included in this edition, as well as new interviews of police detectives, Susan's friends, family and colleagues, and new information about Robert Durst is revealed.
"With Murder in Beverly Hills and her dogged research and eye for detail, Scott establishes herself as one of the elite true crime writers in the business." --Burl Barer, Edgar Award winning author of Body Count
"Although haunted by her infamous father, Susan Berman was more than just Las Vegas ca
Message from Author Cathy Scott: This is a story that begins in old Las Vegas with gangsters and the boys from the Jewish Mob. It moves to San Francisco with the movers and shakers, to New York City with its literati, and ends in Beverly Hills with the glitterati. It is a story about a path to murder.
The slaying of Susan Berman in the winter of 2000 had all the earmarks of a professional hit aimed at a person born into the Mafia. Or was that exactly what the killer had intended everyone to think, to lead investigators to the erroneous assumption that it was a Mob hit? Or was it someone else who wanted her dead? If not a Mafia hit, then, who else could have done it? And why? These are the questions I pursued for the dozen years I have covered Susan Berman's murder, looking for hard evidence, circumstances, clues, and the who, what, and whys of the case.
In my research, I have gotten to know Susan, doubly so during the rewrite and update for this second edition of the book. I drove the route from her Las Vegas home to her Benedict Canyon house in Beverly Hills. I visited the restaurants she frequented in the town she loved and called home during the final seventeen years of her life. I walked through the Las Vegas house on South Sixth Street where she lived her first twelve years. It was a bright, cheerful house. I imagined her as a child, running down the long hallway into the welcome arms of the father she adored.
I went to the University of California, Berkeley campus where Susan attended journalism school and earned her master's degree and where protests against the war in Vietnam were rampant. Susan made lifelong friends while attending Berkeley - many in the writing world who later tossed work her way. I visited the University of California, Los Angeles campus where she got her bachelor's and sat in the quad where Susan met the man who would become her best friend and trusted confidant.
I visited her home in Benedict Canyon, where she was murdered, and found it gloomy and dark. Someone else lives there now.
And, finally, I visited the Home of Peace cemetery in East Los Angeles where Susan Berman's body is entombed in a marble wall alongside her mother, father, and uncle. A recent visitor left flowers in bud vases for her mother Gladys, father Davie, and uncle Chickie. Susan's vases, one on either side of her shiny-brass headstone, were empty. I stood there looking at her grave, regretting I had not brought her a flower.
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Growing up, Susan Berman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas Mob royalty, the daughter of a Mob boss who ran the Flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy. But halfway through her childhood, dream exploded. Susan's father died without warning during a routine surgery. Next, Susie Berman's mother died by her own hand the next year when she overdosing on drugs. Susie was whisked away from the only home she'd ever known, parentless and living with an uncle and his family and sent away to boarding school. Fast forward to college where Susan met her soul mate, Robert Durst. They became best friends and each other's confidants. Durst went to work for his wealthy father at the Durst Organization in Manhattan while Susan became a journalist, writing about women's cultural issues for newspapers and magazines. She followed Durst to New York, where he married the beautiful Kathie McCormack. Then, Kathie disappeared and Susan stood by her best friend Robert, despite suspicions that Durst had caused the demise of his wife. Twenty years later, as police closed in on Durst and reopened the case, seeking to interview his best friends, Susan was murdered. Few clues were found. Who did it and why? Was it the Mob? A trusted friend? Murder in Beverly Hills (an updated, revised edition of Murder of a Mafia Daughter) answers those questions. Exclusive information about the investigation is included in this edition, as well as new interviews of police detectives, Susan's friends, family and colleagues, and new information about Robert Durst is revealed.
"With Murder in Beverly Hills and her dogged research and eye for detail, Scott establishes herself as one of the elite true crime writers in the business." --Burl Barer, Edgar Award winning author of Body Count
"Although haunted by her infamous father, Susan Berman was more than just Las Vegas ca
Message from Author Cathy Scott: This is a story that begins in old Las Vegas with gangsters and the boys from the Jewish Mob. It moves to San Francisco with the movers and shakers, to New York City with its literati, and ends in Beverly Hills with the glitterati. It is a story about a path to murder.
The slaying of Susan Berman in the winter of 2000 had all the earmarks of a professional hit aimed at a person born into the Mafia. Or was that exactly what the killer had intended everyone to think, to lead investigators to the erroneous assumption that it was a Mob hit? Or was it someone else who wanted her dead? If not a Mafia hit, then, who else could have done it? And why? These are the questions I pursued for the dozen years I have covered Susan Berman's murder, looking for hard evidence, circumstances, clues, and the who, what, and whys of the case.
In my research, I have gotten to know Susan, doubly so during the rewrite and update for this second edition of the book. I drove the route from her Las Vegas home to her Benedict Canyon house in Beverly Hills. I visited the restaurants she frequented in the town she loved and called home during the final seventeen years of her life. I walked through the Las Vegas house on South Sixth Street where she lived her first twelve years. It was a bright, cheerful house. I imagined her as a child, running down the long hallway into the welcome arms of the father she adored.
I went to the University of California, Berkeley campus where Susan attended journalism school and earned her master's degree and where protests against the war in Vietnam were rampant. Susan made lifelong friends while attending Berkeley - many in the writing world who later tossed work her way. I visited the University of California, Los Angeles campus where she got her bachelor's and sat in the quad where Susan met the man who would become her best friend and trusted confidant.
I visited her home in Benedict Canyon, where she was murdered, and found it gloomy and dark. Someone else lives there now.
And, finally, I visited the Home of Peace cemetery in East Los Angeles where Susan Berman's body is entombed in a marble wall alongside her mother, father, and uncle. A recent visitor left flowers in bud vases for her mother Gladys, father Davie, and uncle Chickie. Susan's vases, one on either side of her shiny-brass headstone, were empty. I stood there looking at her grave, regretting I had not brought her a flower.
Murder in Beverly Hills
Robert Durst has been arrested for murder!
Growing up, Susan Berman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas Mob royalty, the daughter of a Mob boss who ran the Flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy. But halfway through her childhood, dream exploded. Susan's father died without warning during a routine surgery. Next, Susie Berman's mother died by her own hand the next year when she overdosing on drugs. Susie was whisked away from the only home she'd ever known, parentless and living with an uncle and his family and sent away to boarding school. Fast forward to college where Susan met her soul mate, Robert Durst. They became best friends and each other's confidants. Durst went to work for his wealthy father at the Durst Organization in Manhattan while Susan became a journalist, writing about women's cultural issues for newspapers and magazines. She followed Durst to New York, where he married the beautiful Kathie McCormack. Then, Kathie disappeared and Susan stood by her best friend Robert, despite suspicions that Durst had caused the demise of his wife. Twenty years later, as police closed in on Durst and reopened the case, seeking to interview his best friends, Susan was murdered. Few clues were found. Who did it and why? Was it the Mob? A trusted friend? Murder in Beverly Hills (an updated, revised edition of Murder of a Mafia Daughter) answers those questions. Exclusive information about the investigation is included in this edition, as well as new interviews of police detectives, Susan's friends, family and colleagues, and new information about Robert Durst is revealed.
"With Murder in Beverly Hills and her dogged research and eye for detail, Scott establishes herself as one of the elite true crime writers in the business." --Burl Barer, Edgar Award winning author of Body Count
"Although haunted by her infamous father, Susan Berman was more than just Las Vegas ca
Message from Author Cathy Scott: This is a story that begins in old Las Vegas with gangsters and the boys from the Jewish Mob. It moves to San Francisco with the movers and shakers, to New York City with its literati, and ends in Beverly Hills with the glitterati. It is a story about a path to murder.
The slaying of Susan Berman in the winter of 2000 had all the earmarks of a professional hit aimed at a person born into the Mafia. Or was that exactly what the killer had intended everyone to think, to lead investigators to the erroneous assumption that it was a Mob hit? Or was it someone else who wanted her dead? If not a Mafia hit, then, who else could have done it? And why? These are the questions I pursued for the dozen years I have covered Susan Berman's murder, looking for hard evidence, circumstances, clues, and the who, what, and whys of the case.
In my research, I have gotten to know Susan, doubly so during the rewrite and update for this second edition of the book. I drove the route from her Las Vegas home to her Benedict Canyon house in Beverly Hills. I visited the restaurants she frequented in the town she loved and called home during the final seventeen years of her life. I walked through the Las Vegas house on South Sixth Street where she lived her first twelve years. It was a bright, cheerful house. I imagined her as a child, running down the long hallway into the welcome arms of the father she adored.
I went to the University of California, Berkeley campus where Susan attended journalism school and earned her master's degree and where protests against the war in Vietnam were rampant. Susan made lifelong friends while attending Berkeley - many in the writing world who later tossed work her way. I visited the University of California, Los Angeles campus where she got her bachelor's and sat in the quad where Susan met the man who would become her best friend and trusted confidant.
I visited her home in Benedict Canyon, where she was murdered, and found it gloomy and dark. Someone else lives there now.
And, finally, I visited the Home of Peace cemetery in East Los Angeles where Susan Berman's body is entombed in a marble wall alongside her mother, father, and uncle. A recent visitor left flowers in bud vases for her mother Gladys, father Davie, and uncle Chickie. Susan's vases, one on either side of her shiny-brass headstone, were empty. I stood there looking at her grave, regretting I had not brought her a flower.
Growing up, Susan Berman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas Mob royalty, the daughter of a Mob boss who ran the Flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy. But halfway through her childhood, dream exploded. Susan's father died without warning during a routine surgery. Next, Susie Berman's mother died by her own hand the next year when she overdosing on drugs. Susie was whisked away from the only home she'd ever known, parentless and living with an uncle and his family and sent away to boarding school. Fast forward to college where Susan met her soul mate, Robert Durst. They became best friends and each other's confidants. Durst went to work for his wealthy father at the Durst Organization in Manhattan while Susan became a journalist, writing about women's cultural issues for newspapers and magazines. She followed Durst to New York, where he married the beautiful Kathie McCormack. Then, Kathie disappeared and Susan stood by her best friend Robert, despite suspicions that Durst had caused the demise of his wife. Twenty years later, as police closed in on Durst and reopened the case, seeking to interview his best friends, Susan was murdered. Few clues were found. Who did it and why? Was it the Mob? A trusted friend? Murder in Beverly Hills (an updated, revised edition of Murder of a Mafia Daughter) answers those questions. Exclusive information about the investigation is included in this edition, as well as new interviews of police detectives, Susan's friends, family and colleagues, and new information about Robert Durst is revealed.
"With Murder in Beverly Hills and her dogged research and eye for detail, Scott establishes herself as one of the elite true crime writers in the business." --Burl Barer, Edgar Award winning author of Body Count
"Although haunted by her infamous father, Susan Berman was more than just Las Vegas ca
Message from Author Cathy Scott: This is a story that begins in old Las Vegas with gangsters and the boys from the Jewish Mob. It moves to San Francisco with the movers and shakers, to New York City with its literati, and ends in Beverly Hills with the glitterati. It is a story about a path to murder.
The slaying of Susan Berman in the winter of 2000 had all the earmarks of a professional hit aimed at a person born into the Mafia. Or was that exactly what the killer had intended everyone to think, to lead investigators to the erroneous assumption that it was a Mob hit? Or was it someone else who wanted her dead? If not a Mafia hit, then, who else could have done it? And why? These are the questions I pursued for the dozen years I have covered Susan Berman's murder, looking for hard evidence, circumstances, clues, and the who, what, and whys of the case.
In my research, I have gotten to know Susan, doubly so during the rewrite and update for this second edition of the book. I drove the route from her Las Vegas home to her Benedict Canyon house in Beverly Hills. I visited the restaurants she frequented in the town she loved and called home during the final seventeen years of her life. I walked through the Las Vegas house on South Sixth Street where she lived her first twelve years. It was a bright, cheerful house. I imagined her as a child, running down the long hallway into the welcome arms of the father she adored.
I went to the University of California, Berkeley campus where Susan attended journalism school and earned her master's degree and where protests against the war in Vietnam were rampant. Susan made lifelong friends while attending Berkeley - many in the writing world who later tossed work her way. I visited the University of California, Los Angeles campus where she got her bachelor's and sat in the quad where Susan met the man who would become her best friend and trusted confidant.
I visited her home in Benedict Canyon, where she was murdered, and found it gloomy and dark. Someone else lives there now.
And, finally, I visited the Home of Peace cemetery in East Los Angeles where Susan Berman's body is entombed in a marble wall alongside her mother, father, and uncle. A recent visitor left flowers in bud vases for her mother Gladys, father Davie, and uncle Chickie. Susan's vases, one on either side of her shiny-brass headstone, were empty. I stood there looking at her grave, regretting I had not brought her a flower.
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| BN ID: | 2940150455153 |
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| Publisher: | Crime Rant Classics |
| Publication date: | 09/03/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 826,119 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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