Trash bags containing the remains of a man turn up in Galveston Bay, the identification of which leads investigators across the hall from the man's residence in a seedy boarding house to the apartment of a mute woman -- a woman who turns out to be a cross-dressing, seemingly shifty nobody who turns out to be the son of real estate mogul Seymour Durst.

Robert Durst skips town before his trial, but he is eventually nabbed after shoplifting a newspaper, some band-aids and a sandwich from a grocery store in Pennsylvania. It's a really stupid way to get caught, especially considering the fact he had hundreds of dollars on him at the time, but it just seems to be one typically oddball act in a life of oddball and criminal behavior.

One thing about these old Mugshots documentaries is that they were often filmed before the cases involved went to trial. After watching this episode, I immediately looked to see what had come after. The evidence that Durst killed and dismembered Morris Black in Galveston was quite clear, so I was most interested in learning if any further developments had been made in the cases of Durst's long-missing wife Kathleen and his best friend and possible co-conspirator Susan Berman. I was shocked to learn that Durst was acquitted for the murder of Black, on the basis of self-defense, and was freed.

This documentary focuses primarily on the disappearance of Kathleen Durst in 1982. According to Kathleen's friends and brother, Kathleen lived in fear of her husband Robert hurting or killing her, going so far as to ask them not to let him get away with it, should something untoward happen to her. Kathleen's body has never been found, and investigators have never been able to directly link Robert to her disappearance and presumed murder. When a tip led police to reopen the case 18 years later, though, Susan Berman was found with a bullet in the back of her head, just as police were planning on interviewing her again.

I had hoped to learn that additional information about Kathleen's disappearance and Berman's murder had emerged in Durst's trial and conviction for murdering Morris Black, so it's quite disappointing to learn that Durst got away with at least one murder and possibly two more. While every man is innocent until proven guilty, it strains reason to believe that Durst wasn't involved in his wife's disappearance. Hopefully, this will ultimately be a case of justice delayed rather than evaded.