-(eerie music playing) -(quiet street noise)
(distant dog barking)
-(beep) -voicemail (on phone): Saturday, 6:15 p.m.
-(beep) -Sandra (on voicemail):
-(hangs up) -(beep)
♪♪
Robin Karr-Morse: I remember it was Christmas time.
Susan was very agitated.
She kept talking about the fact that
she needed money. She was fairly desperate.
And that she was really scraping
the bottom of the barrel.
At which point, I told her I'd send her some money.
-(beep) -Sareb Kaufman (on voicemail):
-(hangs up) -(beep)
And she kept on talking about...
the fact that someone was coming
and that she was nervous about it.
And she was
going to blow the situation wide open.
That's what she said.
-(phone static) -(beep)
Jeff (on voicemail):
-(beep) -Karr-Morse: I finally said,
"Susie, what in the hell are you talking about?"
♪♪
And she said, "I would tell you, Robbie,
but your life would be in danger."
I feel really badly that I didn't get her
to tell me what she was gonna "blow wide open."
(sighs)
Because that was the last conversation I had with Susie.
-(beep) -Karr-Morse (on voicemail):
(busy signal beeping)
-(hangs up) -(answering machine clicking, beeps)
("Survivor" by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats playing)
♪ Well, you just think that I'm ♪
♪ Some great survivor ♪
(static)
♪ And you just build upon ♪
♪ The light to carry you ♪
(shutter snapping)
♪ Well, I don't even talk that way ♪
♪ See, I wanted you to stay ♪
♪ And show you the world's a better place ♪
(scuttling)
♪ And as we crawl to find our way ♪
♪ We even take the shape of something else ♪
(shutter snaps)
-♪ You think that I'm just ♪ -(gunshot)
♪ Some great survivor ♪
♪ You think that I'm just ♪
(shutters snapping)
♪ Some great survivor ♪
♪ I'm afraid that the weight of the world ♪
♪ Is catching up with you ♪
♪♪
(scuttling)
(wind blowing)
(light music playing)
(pulls up chair)
-(on phone) Hi. -(on phone) Hi.
Robert Durst: How are you?
I'm alright. How are you?
(curious music playing)
newscaster 1: The case against Robert Durst.
newscaster 2: After months of preliminary hearings,
the actual trial is finally starting.
(lights click, buzz)
newscaster 3: That's right, California versus Robert Durst.
(Durst speaking on phone)
(Debrah Lee Charatan speaking on phone)
newscaster: Media coverage expected to be so intense
there may not be enough seats for reporters in the courtroom.
-(screaming) -(audience laughing)
Andy Richter: Oh, my God! Get him out!
Alright, take a seat. What's your name, bud?
-My name is Robert Durst. -(audience laughter)
(Charatan speaking)
(Durst speaking)
Alex Trebek: This HBO docuseries helped bring down Robert Durst.
-Alex? That's it. -What's "The Jinx"?
(Durst speaking)
-Did you see "The Jinx"? -(laughter)
This guy killed three people,
and yet you'll watch it, and you'll go, "I like this guy.
-(laughter) -Why do I like this guy?"
(birds chirping)
John Lewin: I found Bob very entertaining.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't find Bob funny.
Just 'cause you're a murderer
doesn't mean you can't be charming.
I made sure that our case
was not gonna live or die
on whether some people found Bob appealing.
I have hundreds of pieces of evidence
to prove he's a killer.
(Wild West music playing)
Savannah Guthrie: Defense attorney Dick DeGuerin joins us now.
Good morning to you, sir.
Dick DeGuerin: The prosecutors jumped the gun
because of "The Jinx."
You know, it's all in the editing.
The editing was designed for good television,
but it wasn't designed to get to the truth.
As a defense lawyer,
you need to know the case
better than the prosecution.
(door creaks)
And the case is weak.
Remember, these are the same lawyers
that got him off in Texas.
(creaking)
And I knew the defense team had done some polling
and discovered that
there was a lot of sympathy for Bob's frailty.
Personally, I thought there was
a little theatricality at work here.
I look better when I've grown a couple of months of hair.
But I'm thinking maybe the jury will like me better
with my shunt standing right out there.
(judge speaking)
(door creaks)
(Durst speaking)
-(Wild West music playing) -(wheelchair rattling)
Michael Belcher: Bob is wheeled out,
and I think he had shaved his head
-to make the stent, you know-- -David Belcher: The shunt.
-Shunt, sorry. The shunt-- -Stent goes in your heart.
-Okay, so-- -Shunt goes in your head.
(both laugh)
♪♪
Carlos Leal: My initial impression of Bob was this weak old man.
Think he was in his wheelchair,
and, you know, they were telling us
how he has all these ailments.
He was, um, a lot smaller than I expected.
A lot older, too. Like, frail-looking.
In his wheelchair,
uh, with his catheter bag.
For one thing, I kind of questioned
whether he even was aware of what was going on.
(courtroom chatter)
(clears throat)
Please be seated. Thank you.
Welcome to the People versus Robert Durst.
Mr. Durst is present.
His lawyers are present,
Mr. DeGuerin, Mr. Chesnoff,
and for the People, Mr. Balian
and Mr. Lewin.
If there is a lot of publicity,
if there are forces operating
on the trial
that are unusual,
that presents challenges.
But it's your obligation as a judge
to allow the jurors to do their work.
It's alleged on or between December 22, 2000,
and December 23, 2000, in the county of Los Angeles,
the crime of murder
was committed by Robert Durst,
who did unlawfully and with malice aforethought
murder Susan Berman, a human being.
It's further alleged that Susan Berman
was a witness to a crime
and was intentionally killed because of that fact.
Lewin: It's impossible to understand
anything that happened
unless you understand where it started.
(soft, somber music playing)
It started with Bob and Kathie.
You have to understand the domestic violence,
the horrible way he treated her.
When you understand that, you will now understand
that Bob was responsible for her death.
(fireplace crackling)
And you will now understand the lies
that Bob told about how she disappeared.
newscaster: Robert Durst told police
he'd driven his wife from their country house
in South Salem, New York
to this nearby train station,
where she boarded the city-bound train
headed for their Manhattan apartment
and a busy week at medical school.
But no one close to Kathie would see her again.
But Mrs. Durst was heard from Monday morning.
She was a fourth-year medical student
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
and she was to have a clinic class that morning.
But she called up saying she wasn't feeling well,
and she wouldn't be in that day. And as far as police know,
that's the last time that anyone had contact with her.
♪♪
Lewin: Bob's whole story depends on this phone call
that Kathie supposedly made to the medical school.
bailiff: ...the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
-so help you God? -I do.
Lewin: That call is the reason police believe
Kathie made it back to the city and was alive Monday morning.
If the call didn't come from Kathie,
then Bob's alibi falls apart.
Habib Balian: I really felt that it was important
for our jury to hear
that when Dr. Kuperman said that Kathie called,
he really wasn't sure.
He just said that because it was a woman
who said it was Kathie Durst.
I don't believe anyone questioned him in detail
about why he thought that was Kathie on the phone.
Those questions had never been asked.
-(papers rustling) -Dr. Kuperman,
tell us what you remember about this call.
The woman stated that she was Kathie Durst
and that she would be absent.
And I asked her why,
and she said she had some diarrhea.
Perhaps a headache was in there. I'm not sure.
And for all those reasons,
she didn't think it was possible
to come to that c--
that was the first day of that particular clerkship.
Balian: In your 40 years as the dean of education
of the Albert Einstein Medical School,
other than this case involving Kathleen Durst,
have you ever been contacted by a student
to say that they were going to be sick
and not show up for a clerkship?
No.
Kathie would not have called in sick
to the first day of a rotation.
It's patently absurd.
bailiff: Do you solemnly state that the testimony you're about to give
will be the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
-classmate 1: I do. -bailiff: Please be seated.
Lewin: And in your experience, how sick would a student
have to be to call in sick to a rotation?
classmate 1: Comatose. You would go.
classmate 2: The culture was that you hung in there
until you were about-- until you fell over, basically.
You show up even if you have to drag the IV pole with you.
Once you decide that Kathie did not make the call,
then you're left with, "Okay, who made the call?"
The person it would had to have come from
is Bob's best friend, Susan Berman.
Susan made that call.
That's our whole case. Okay, Bob killed Kathie. Yep.
Loyal Susan helps Bob. Yep.
Susan has this over Bob. Yep.
And Susan carries this secret for almost 18 years.
(echoing click)
-(papers rustle) -Everybody still with me?
(speakers murmur)
In late 1999,
New York State police detectives
began reinvestigating Kathie's disappearance.
♪♪
Susan told Bob Durst
that she had been contacted by investigators
and they wanted to speak to her about Kathie.
Despite her loyalty,
Susan was not somebody who he apparently believed
would keep her mouth shut to the police.
And so, Susan,
she is a lingering and continuing threat
and she needs to be eliminated.
(gunshot)
(casing clattering)
(Durst speaking)
(TV news theme music playing)
newscaster: Okay, wait a minute.
They're gonna try to prove
a murder in New York from 1982,
while they're proving the case before the jury,
a murder in California.
guest: It just seems like a ton of connections to make
in order to get a conviction.
(distorted wind blowing)
I think that it's gonna be difficult.
(somber music playing)
(quiet reporter chatter)
(equipment rattling)
Good, good, good? Yeah? Perfect.
(Durst speaking)
(Charatan speaking)
When I looked at the evidence in the Susan Berman case,
I said, "This case can be won."
I'm salivating
'cause I know that we have
a tremendous reasonable doubt argument.
was spun from whole cloth.
It began in part as a result
of a fictional movie that Jarecki made.
-(reporters chattering) -(shutters snapping)
The fictional,
I emphasize the word "fictional," movie...
Jarecki presented as one of the theories
that Susan Berman had impersonated
Kathie at some point.
That's how it started.
All from a movie.
♪♪
All from a movie.
♪♪
David Chesnoff: I don't think anybody ever had come up with that
before it was in the film. I don't know where--
what, what created that
for the screenwriter or the producer,
but I was convinced that
but for that reference in the movie,
law enforcement would never have dug in at the school.
So, the Hollywood producer who made up this story
is the one that's provided the Hollywood script
for why we're here.
Also, you will hear evidence
that it was Kathie Durst who called that morning.
Kathie had a history of calling out sick
instead of attending school.
This was nothing new to Kathie.
Kathie was all over the place
and was living an unstable life.
Kathie was a sweet gal and everybody loved her,
but she did have problems.
She had alcohol and coke problems.
No. No.
(DeGuerin speaking)
Yes, sir.
(DeGuerin speaking)
classmate: No question about it.
In cross-examination,
you're not gonna have a Perry Mason moment
where the person that's just testified to something says,
"Oh, well, I give up. I lied."
What you have to show is whatever reasons
a person has
to either color their testimony
or exaggerate or leave facts out.
DeGuerin: That Monday when the call came in...
-(phone ringing) -...Kuperman was covering for another dean.
And this Dr. John Cook
had told Kuperman
that Kathie'd been missing classes.
She was in some trouble.
(DeGuerin speaking)
(Dr. Albert Kuperman speaking)
(DeGuerin speaking)
(tense music playing)
(DeGuerin speaking)
I'm Albert Kuperman.
I've been at Einstein since 1975.
(Andrew Jarecki speaking)
I got a phone call. It was a Monday,
to the best of my recollection.
(DeGuerin speaking)
DeGuerin/Jarecki: "Had you had enough contact with her prior to that..."
Jarecki: ...to recognize her voice?
Kuperman: Well, you know. Phones are different.
But it sounded like her.
(DeGuerin speaking)
(Kuperman speaking)
(inaudible)
(DeGuerin speaking)
(Kuperman speaking)
(Durst speaking)
The discrepancies that DeGuerin unearthed
could cause doubt for the jury.
So now, Lewin is gonna have to prove
that Susan is the one who made that call.
(Hon. Mark Windham speaking)
(Lewin speaking)
(curious music playing)
Lynda Obst was a close friend of Susan's
and she moved out to Los Angeles
to become a Hollywood producer.
(shutter snaps)
One of her first projects was
they had optioned Susan's book "Easy Street"
about the Mafia,
and Lynda was working with Susan
to try to turn it into a screenplay.
Yes.
(Lewin speaking)
I was afraid I might.
(episode playing on TV)
Watching "The Jinx,"
I would say from the middle of the first episode on,
my heart was pounding. Was just pounding.
Because I'd never put it all together before.
It was all in the abstract for me.
I never really understood the story with Kathie before
because I only had what Susan told me.
So everything started-- It was like a rush of information
and I think I felt very overwhelmed.
Susan Berman: I grew up with a man
who was very career-oriented.
My dad was Davey Berman. He was one of the pioneers,
mobster, gangsters, whatever you wanna basically say,
that founded Las Vegas.
He ran his downtown clubs,
and then, he was also a partner with Ben Siegel
in the Flamingo hotel.
♪♪
Karr-Morse: Susan's dad thought nothing of
doing what he needed to do for the Mafia.
Susie knew that
and she admired the fact that
he was nobody to be messed with.
I mean, she really idolized her dad.
But, he died when she was 12.
We became fast friends
because we were the only two girls in school
who didn't have parents.
Susie talked about her mother
having had some nervous...
difficulties, and I don't know exactly
what caused her death.
Berman: My mother had had a series of nervous breakdowns
that started before he died.
She may have committed suicide. That's what the autopsies say.
I've heard that she possibly could've been murdered.
It was an isolating life.
But, the thing that meant the most to her,
that my father was happy.
Lynda Obst: The mother internalized every secret
and nurtured every wound.
But in Susan's mind, she was a saint.
And her saintliness was in total devotion to her husband.
And that's what Susan wanted to be with Bob Durst.
She was living this fantasy
that she created for her mother and her father.
She was projecting herself
into her mother's situation with Bobby.
♪♪
She was protecting him,
and she was keeping his secrets.
♪♪
(line ringing)
♪♪
(Durst speaking)
Lewin: What I can tell you is that I can detonate
the "he said/she said."
Because there's another piece of evidence
and it really demonstrates
that Susan appears to be involved.
(phone ringing)
I got a call at the office,
and the person says, "Are you aware
"that there is a conversation, a recording,
"between Albert Goldman and Susan Berman
that took place nine days after Kathie disappeared?"
And I say, "No, I was not aware of it."
My first question is, "Who's Albert Goldman?"
-(typing) -(curious music playing)
I'm one of the best investigative reporters,
I think, in the world today.
Charles Bagli: Albert Goldman was a sort of
pop culture author, critic,
-gossip columnist. -(tape rewinding)
And even though the conversation was supposed
to be just between friends and off the record...
-(garbled voices) -...Goldman recorded everything.
Berman (on tape): I'm a little bit psychic.
You know, I can sorta foretell things...
And I'm listening to it,
and I'm thinking,
the best single piece of evidence we have
that shows Susan helped Bob cover up Kathie's murder
would be that tape.
(Berman speaking)
Jarecki: Did you ever hear of a recording
made by the writer Albert Goldman
of a call he had with Susan Berman
back in 1982 right after Kathie disappeared?
I heard about it,
but I've never heard it. I'd love to hear it.
(Berman speaking)
Lisa DePaulo: That's a lie.
There's no way she thought of Susan as her best friend.
She had best friends. They loved her.
Berman (on phone): At first,
like, the police wouldn't even take it seriously.
"Runaway wife." Well, dig this.
First of all, Kathie's not a calculating Jewish girl
who would know how to run away.
Number two, she had no lovers. I knew her intimately.
Number three, he had cut off all her charge cards.
And number four, there was no activity on her checking account.
She could not go anywhere, you know?
Nah.
DePaulo: It-It's like she had a checklist.
She was, like, narrowing it down
to the best story that would explain
why Kathie was nowhere.
"Oh my. What happened to Kathie?"
But it sounds good,
and that's what's going on here.
Susan's drawing Albert into a story
but, at the same time,
checking the possible scenarios
that she might tell the police or the media.
(Berman speaking)
Berman: Okay, let me ask you something.
-This is confidential, right? -Whoa! Whoa!
-(click) -I mean,
to talk like that about...
a murdered woman?
It's ugly.
(Berman speaking)
She just degrades her.
Says, "She wasn't doing well in school."
The opposite was true.
Her life dream is within reach.
And then, Susan says,
"Oh, and by the way, she's a drinker.
♪♪
Oh, and, and, by the way, she does coke."
It was just one thing after another
to make her seem...
like she's not a good person, not even worth looking for.
So, Susan is trying to knit together a better story.
Berman: Now, just tell me if there's any avenue I haven't covered.
Bagli: She's tossing out ideas,
and Albert keeps knocking them down.
-Berman: The runaway wife. -Albert Goldman: Nah, she didn't run away.
Berman: Nah. Or, maybe she died of an overdose,
-and he stuffed the body somewhere. But, no, no. -Goldman: Nah, nah.
Bagli: But, eventually,
she hits on one that he likes.
Berman: Let me just ask you one other thing,
'cause you've lived here a long time.
She had diamond stud earrings on,
you know, that he'd given her.
And he always was telling her, "Don't wear them."
-So, she looks wealthy. -Goldman: You think that's literally true,
-that she had diamond earrings? -Berman: Oh yeah!
Goldman: Oh, well, man, there's your answer right there.
Berman: Really?
Goldman: Yes.
Berman: Right? And she was beautiful.
Like, she looks wealthy 'cause she's so pretty, you know?
Goldman: It's a simple, like, grab...
-Berman: Grab, kill. -Goldman: ...rob,
rape, kill, dump.
Berman: I think you're right.
Yeah, it is conceivable
that she was snatched in broad daylight
'cause she had diamond earrings on and was gorgeous, right?
Right?
Yeah, she had diamond stud earrings on,
-and she was snatched. -Goldman: Yeah.
Berman: And we'll never find anyone who saw it.
-Goldman: Eh, somebody saw it. -Berman: But nobody'll ever--
I mean, it could happen, right?
♪♪
Bagli: So the stage is set by Susan.
Kathie was wearing diamonds and disappeared.
Now, Susan can take this narrative to the press
and divert their attention away from Bob.
The tabloids played it big.
It really put the story out there.
Jarecki: Was she wearing diamond earrings?
No.
The diamond earrings were later found
in Bob and Kathie's apartment on Riverside Drive.
(shutter snaps)
(Berman speaking)
Bagli: "I'm saving my tears 'til it's official."
That's the most chilling moment
in the entire conversation
because she knows that Kathie's dead.
DePaulo: Susan was determined to put a story out there
that would take the attention off Bob.
And once she did that...
(Goldman speaking)
(Berman speaking)
DePaulo: ...her job was done.
(echoing click)
This changed my perception
of something I'd been working on for 17 years.
It made me realize
she was an enthusiastic partner.
That's what turned her on was the idea that he needed her,
and she could come up with the stuff.
She could be vital to him.
-(shutter snaps) -And she can be like
the saintly wife, taking care of business.
"Don't you worry about it. I'll take care of it."
And also, it's more intimate with him
than anybody else will be with him.
-(shutter snaps) -They are improvising this lie together.
It's a life-and-death situation.
They're tied to each other like they have children.
-(shutter snaps) -This ties them together forever.
Karr-Morse: She was a full-on accomplice.
From a person I love so much,
it's so awful.
I mean, it's so awful.
Jarecki: This recording made it much harder for me
to see Susan as a true victim.
DePaulo: Yeah.
Jarecki: Terrible when somebody gets murdered,
but this person
was deeply involved in this crime.
Oh, Susan.
(shutter snaps, film camera winding)
(birds chirping)
♪♪
Lewin: The Goldman tape would counter
much of what the defense is putting forward.
You hear Susan's voice...
Berman (on phone): She's dead, right? I'm saving my tears
'til it's official, but you think so?
Lewin: ...and the emotional response is, "Wow,
"this woman is really manipulative.
She is really tied into it."
Goldman: Jesus, that's definitely it.
Berman: Yeah, you got the story.
Lewin: But jurors are human beings.
And if they truly dislike your victim,
it just makes it harder.
So, I decided not to use the recording
because I don't want the jury
to dislike Susan so much that they basically say,
"You know what?
We don't care that she got murdered."
(birds chirping)
But ultimately,
I felt like I had something even stronger.
newscaster: Prosecutors dropped a bombshell
that they have a secret witness
who can provide valuable information
about the murder of Durst's close friend
Susan Berman 16 years ago.
-Lewin: Your Honor, if I just-- -DeGuerin: Time out. Wait a minute. Hold on.
(overlapping arguing)
newscaster: Prosecutors clashed with Durst's defense team
when they implied they need to get that testimony
on the record as soon as possible
because the witness fears being killed by Durst.
Witnesses in this case,
realistically, understandably,
are concerned about their safety.
Chesnoff: Bob was in complete isolation.
His phone calls were monitored.
He was sickly and old.
And the idea that somehow he was a danger to anybody but himself
at this point in time, to me, seemed absurd.
-(beep) -Charatan: Hi.
This is the first time
they've put me in chains for a visit.
-Sorry. -Discussion was about
them having secret witnesses
whose identity has to remain secret
-because I'm a threat. -I know.
Seems to me that I'm not a threat because I'm in jail.
I know. I think the whole thing is ludicrous.
Windham: In some cases,
there are witnesses whose lives
have, in fact, been threatened.
Whatever it takes for a witness to feel more comfortable,
that's something that I'm going to consider.
Lewin: Let me be clear.
That man kills witnesses. That's what he does.
Mr. Durst, when pushed into a corner,
he murders people.
-(shutter snaps) -(curious music playing)
Nick Chavin: You have two best friends.
One of them kills the other.
It's Cain and Abel. It's biblical.
-(rattling) -(sighs)
newscaster: The witness is Nick Chavin.
-(shutter snaps) -He was a very good friend of Robert Durst
and a very good friend of Susan Berman.
(distant roaring)
Nick Chavin: We're sitting in the plane, and the captain said,
"Everyone please remain in your seats.
There will be a few people getting off here."
-(sirens wail) -Security guards say, "Okay, follow us,"
and everyone pretty much thought
that we were the criminals.
(laughs) But walking down that aisle
and having so many people gawk at you,
it's a, it's, it's a kick. It's bigger than performing.
-(siren wailing) -(mysterious music playing)
newscaster: Robert Durst used to be his very best friend,
but today he showed up to court
with two security guards at his side,
suggesting he now fears for his safety.
They took us right to John Lewin.
He said, "The questions are gonna be really easy.
"Don't rehearse.
Just let it go."
And that was good advice.
(door creaks)
One of the things I've always wanted in life
was to have that much exposure to the public.
I was made for those moments.
I mean, Jesus, I'd like to say
the seriousness of the situation
dampened all my excitement. It didn't.
(Durst speaking)
(Susie Giordano speaking)
Nick Chavin: What was surreal for me
was seeing Bob.
I needed to not look at him
so that my testimony was pure me
and what I wanted to say.
Lewin: Sometime late in 2014,
did you have a dinner with Robert Durst
at Barawine Restaurant?
Yes.
-(car honking) -(tense music playing)
Lewin: Did you and Mr. Durst have discussion
about what the purpose was going to be for this dinner?
Nick Chavin: Yes.
Lewin: Can you describe that discussion?
Nick Chavin: He said he wanted to talk to me about Kathie and Susan.
(opens door)
The dinner concluded...
(inaudible conversation)
...and it was then that I-- as we got up to leave,
I realized that we hadn't discussed
the two things that he had mentioned, Kathie and Susan.
I felt kinda weird that... I didn't bring it up.
-(tense music continues) -(street noise)
We walked out the door.
(sniffles) This is hard. We walked out the door
and on the sidewalk, I said,
"You wanted to talk about Susan?"
And Bob said,
"I had to.
It was her or me. I had no choice."
And then, he turned to walk away,
and I said, "You wanted to talk about Kathie."
And he just kept walking away.
Nothing more was said.
Bagli: "It was her or me.
I had no choice."
This was devastating testimony.
Nick Chavin's big contribution
was his alleged conversation with Bob,
which was very gratuitous.
I don't think it's unfair to suggest
that his 10 minute of fame may have influenced
what he ultimately testified to.
It was really unverifiable.
(Lewin speaking)
(Windham speaking)
(DeGuerin speaking)
(sniffles)
(Nick Chavin speaking)
(DeGuerin speaking)
DeGuerin: This ridiculous claim that Bob confessed to him
on the streets of New York, near a busy restaurant, um...
You can follow that through
the dozens of conversations
between Lewin and Chavin.
There was inconsistencies
or really contradictions, that was all recorded.
"And we left. We walked outside.
"And I-- and I looked.
"He was gonna go one way.
"And I was gonna go the other.
And I looked at him. And I said, 'Bob...'"
Nick Chavin (on tape):
Chavin kinda changed his tune, didn't he?
It's interesting cross-examining people
who have given statements in the past,
so you have a blueprint.
'Cause nine outta ten times,
they don't say the same thing twice or the third time.
And DeGuerin really dug in on Nick Chavin.
(DeGuerin speaking)
Lewin (on tape): You and Bob ended up going out to a--
(clears throat) to dinner.
And, when it was over
you were pressing him.
And, finally, he turned to you and he said,
"It was either Susan or me."
Nick Chavin: Yeah. No, that didn't happen.
I don't know what else to tell you.
You don't want me to lie, do you?
Lewin: No. No, Nick...
DeGuerin: I think that getting Chavin to say what he said
was crucial to Lewin's case.
He knew what he wanted to get from those witnesses, and...
so he suggested those, those answers.
(DeGuerin speaking)
Chesnoff: Listening to Nick's testimony,
I don't think it had any real impact.
Just consider the source.
(soft music playing)
I would prefer that justice be done
because of Susan Berman.
(inaudible)
I sometimes have dreams about her now.
Berman: I think the goal of life,
this blessed gift that we all struggle with,
is to somehow, as we get older
and we mature, make more and more good choices.
♪♪
Choices that are good for us.
Choices that are good for our family.
Choices that are good for humanity.
(doorbell rings)
(muffled dog barking)
(doorbell rings)
Sometimes, I think life forces you into choices
and it's a tragic thing
because that past could erase your present.
-(dog barking) -(paws clicking)
I don't know. I'm not a philosopher.
But it's something I've thought about.
(echoing dog barking)
(pen clicking)
(crinkling)
(barking fades out)
♪♪
(slow whistling)
(music fades out)