September 10, 2004

• ooola (with three 'o's) offers forth this link to a chat board posting about the strange case of Robert Durst.

  I did a little digging (meaning, I typed the name into Google), and found a few things. This NY Daily News article is pretty comprehensive. The story is a creepy one: The facts are that Durst killed a neighbor, hacked him to bits, and dumped the bits into Galveston bay. The prosecution story is that Durst murdered the neighbor and hid the evidence; the defense story is that it was self-defense, and Durst had a subsequent Asperger Syndrome-related freakout, wherein he disposed of the body rather than reporting it.

  I don't believe the defense story, myself. But that's just me.

  Other searching led me to this huge list of links on the topic of AS and violence. Durst is well-represented, and there are lots of other interesting things. The parent site for that list-o-links is ASPIRES, which I haven't read through, but which looks interesting. Their focus is on talking through the difficulties AS and non-AS folks may have in long-term and intimate relationships.

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