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Is Robert Durst Dead? What Happened After 'The Jinx' Season One
Robert Durst may have successfully evaded justice for decades thanks to his millions — but in the end, the New York real estate heir and convicted murderer died while incarcerated at a state prison for ailing inmates. Durst's many legal woes, including a conviction in the execution-style killing of one of his closest friends and an indictment in the 1982 murder of his first wife, finally caught up to him when he was a frail man in his 70s. The millionaire Manhattanite faced declining health,...
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Family of missing Mississippi man found dead suspects foul play in his disappearance
It had been 24 days since Dau Mabil vanished while on a walk in Jackson, Mississippi. And in the last few of those days, his family and a growing number of supporters began to think the unthinkable, that a body fished from the Pearl River over the weekend was his. And worse, that he was murdered. On Thursday, they got confirmation of the former, while the latter worry still looms. “He was always my little brother,” Bul Mabil, Mabil’s older brother, told NBC News. “To just think that my brother...
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After her disappearance, Fran Smith's husband faces murder charges in a twisted tale of dark secrets: A Dateline exclusive
After Fran Smith vanished in 1991, her husband’s dark secrets began to unravel. In the three decades since, John Smith, 73, was convicted of killing his first wife in Ohio years earlier, in a murder authorities weren’t even aware of until they began investigating Fran’s disappearance. Fran’s body has never been found, but prosecutors in New Jersey charged her husband in her death five years ago. Then the case took an unusual turn: Those same prosecutors dropped the murder charge against Smith...