health-food store in Vermont in the early 1970s. Durst closed the store in 1973 when his father convinced him to return to New York. Due to Durst's inappropriate conduct, however, his father broke tradition and appointed Douglas to take over the Durst Organization in 1992. Durst who felt he was entitled to inherit the company despite his disdain for it claimed that Douglas had stolen what he believed he was owed, causing a rift between Durst and the rest of his family. Durst eventually sued for his share of the family fortune and was bought out of the family trust for $65 million in 2006. Capital crimes for which Durst has been investigated For most of his adult life, Durst was the subject of investigation and speculation concerning the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen "Kathie" McCormack; the 2000 murder of his longtime friend, Susan Berman; and the 2001 death of his neighbor, Morris Black. Durst was tried and acquitted of murder in the Black case but was later convicted in the Berman case. Disappearance of Kathleen McCormack Durst In the fall of 1971, Durst met dental hygienist Kathleen McCormack. After two dates, he invited McCormack to share his home in Vermont, where she moved in January 1972. However, Durst's father pressured him to resettle in New York to work in the Durst Organization. The couple returned to Manhattan, where they married on April 12, 1973, on Durst's 30th birthday. At the time of her disappearance, McCormack was a student in her fourth and final year at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, studying to be a pediatrician; she was only a few months short of earning her degree. McCormack was last seen by someone other than Durst on the evening of January 31, 1982, when she appeared unexpectedly at a dinner party thrown by her friend Gilberte Najamy in Newtown, Connecticut. Najamy noticed that McCormack was upset and was wearing red sweatpants, which Najamy found odd; McCormack never dressed so casually in public. McCormack later left for her marital home in South Salem, New York, after receiving a phone call from her husband. Although the couple are known to have argued and fought that evening, Durst initially maintained that he placed his wife on a commuter train to New York City at Katonah station, had a drink with a neighbor, and spoke to his wife at