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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 Sus