EXCLUSIVE: A new true crime series is in early development spotlighting the points of view of Robert Durst ’s female victims and the investigators who believed he was a more prolific serial killer than the world ever knew, sources reveal to Deadline. From UCP , a division of Universal Studio Group, for Peacock , the untitled project hails from writer, showrunner and executive producer Dara Resnik ( Home Before Dark , The Horror of Dolores Roach ). She also exec produces with Jimmy Fox and Emily Bon for Main Event Media and Matt Birkbeck.
Durst was charged with the murders of his ex-wife Kathleen McCormack, his friend Susan Berman and neighbor Morris Black but served very little jail time. As the heir to successful real estate investor Seymour Durst, Robert Durst had extensive amounts of money at his disposal. McCormack went missing on January 31, 1982, with Durst saying he put her on a train to New York City and never saw her again.
She was legally declared dead in 2016 but it would take another 5 years before he was officially charged with her death. However, her body was never recovered. Berman and Durst were tight associates with the former giving the latter an alibi in the disappearance of his ex-wife.
On December 24, 2000, Berman was discovered at her Benedict Canyon home killed execution style. Durst revealed in a deposition that Berman told him police were interested in interviewing her after they reopened McCormack’s case. It is believed Berman, Durst’s confidan.