article_snippet: the the HBO finale about his links to three killings — that of his first wife, who disappeared in New York in 1982; Berman, the daughter a mobster and a close friend who acted as his spokeswoman after his wife disappeared; and a 71-year-old neighbor in Texas whose dismembered body was found floating in Galveston Bay in 2001.
article_snippet: himself has been charged in Los Angeles with first-degree murder in the 2000 killing Susan Berman, the daughter of a mobster and a close friend who acted as himself spokeswoman after himself wife disappeared in New York in 1982.
article_snippet: Durst, 71, who is estranged from a family that has a real estate empire worth an estimated $4 billion, has long denied killing Berman and Kathleen Durst, who was declared dead even though his wife body was never found.
article_snippet: Investigators had reopened the case and planned to speak with Berman when Berman was shot once in the back of Berman head at Berman home near Beverly Hills.
article_snippet: After the killing, Durst disguised himself as a mute woman and moved into a cheap Galveston, Texas, boarding house where himself killed an elderly neighbor in 2001.
article_snippet: himself claimed self-defense and was acquitted of murder but was convicted of unlawfully disposing of the man's body, which was found chopped up and floating in Galveston Bay.
article_snippet: In the case of Blake, prosecutors sought to introduce a portion of a jailhouse interview of the actor discussing the actor family with Barbara Walters because it contradicted other evidence.
article_snippet: self-defense then successfully pushed to bring in the rest of a jailhouse interview of the actor discussing his family with Barbara Walters.
article_snippet: 'self-defense did a great deal both to humanize himself and so himself wasn't just seen as a celebrity,' said M. Gerald Schwartzbach, who won Blake's acquittal on a murder charge involving the killing of himself wife. '