Robert Durst moves back to New York City after graduating from UCLA where he met Susan Berman, a close friend who would later be murdered.

Durst meets Kathleen ("Kathie") McCormack in New York City when she drops off her rent check for an apartment in a building that Durst owns on East 52nd Street.

Durst marries Kathleen McCormack in NYC.

Kathleen Durst enrolls in nursing school in Danbury, Conn.

After receiving a nursing degree, Kathleen Durst enrolls in New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Susan Berman's book "Easy Street" is published. She moves to Los Angeles to work on a movie project.

Kathleen Durst attends a party hosted by her friend Gilberte Najamby in Manhattan. It is the last time Najamby sees Kathleen Durst. Robert Durst claims he dropped Kathleen off to board the 9:15 p.m. train for Manhattan at the Katonah train station that night and then returned alone to their Westchester County home.

Doorman says he walked Kathleen Durst up to her penthouse apartment.

Robert Durst claims he spoke to Kathleen Durst at her penthouse apartment in Manhattan from a pay phone in Westchester.

A woman claiming to be Kathleen Durst calls the dean at her school saying she is sick and can't work her residency that day. Connecticut attorney Ellen Strauss, who is a friend of Kathleen Durst, believes she had already been killed at this stage. She says that any student at Durst's level of education knows not to call in sick to the dean, but to the people at her workstation.

In New York City, Kathleen Durst's apartment superintendent claims to see her crossing the street near her building, but she fails to meet friend Gilberte Najamby for dinner in Manhattan.

Robert Durst reports his wife missing at the 20th Precinct in Manhattan, five days after she went missing. Over the years, friend Susan Berman becomes Durst's unofficial spokesperson in relation to the disappearance of his wife. She helps him publicly paint a picture of a very unstable woman involved in drugs.

Ellen Strauss and other friends of Kathleen Durst go to the Dursts' weekend retreat in South Salem, N.Y., and rummage through the trash. They find that Robert Durst has thrown out all of his wife's stuff. Strauss gathers the items and turns them over to police investigating the disappearance. Police question Durst in the disappearance of his wife, but no charges are filed. His theory is that she may have been killed by — or run off with — drug dealers.

Robert Durst gives away his long-time friend Susan Berman, 38, in her wedding to Mister Margulies, 25, in Los Angeles. The marriage lasts seven months, and Margulies dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 27.

Durst quietly divorces Kathleen Durst without notifying the McCormack family. Durst repeatedly publishes notice of the divorce in a Westchester County weekly newspaper as part of a legal requirement that he attempt to notify his spouse.

Diane Bueche sells Durst a house in Trinidad, Calif. Bueche is his next-door neighbor and keeps in touch with Durst even after he sells the house in 2000. Bueche later owns a northern California campground called The Lazy Devil B where Durst allegedly camped out while a fugitive in October and November 2001.

Durst lives in many different properties over the years, across the country.

Kathleen Durst's disappearance case is reopened.

Susan Berman tries to contact Durst to ask him for a loan. She is disappointed to find he has changed his number without telling her, so she writes him a letter via the Durst Organization asking for $7,000 to buy a new car.

Durst sends Susan Berman $25,000 as a gift, not a loan. Susan Berman agrees to a New York Times interview. New York investigators tell Berman they are coming to Los Angeles to question her about the disappearance of Kathleen Durst.

Robert Durst sends Susan Berman another $25,000.

Berman is found dead in her Benedict Canyon Road House in Los Angeles, killed by a single bullet to the back of her head. The bullet is from a 9mm gun.

Morris Black, described by family as a volatile loner who lived meagerly and drifted around the country, moves to a four-plex apartment house at 2213 Avenue K. in Galveston, Texas. Police are later told by a friend of Black, Ted Hanley, that he believes Black and Durst knew each other long before they connected in Galveston. According to Hanley, Black also told him he was harboring secrets he couldn't discuss.

A rabbi marries Robert Durst and Deborah Lee Charatan, who runs a multimillion-dollar real estate company in New York. Friends of Charatan's later tell police that she and Durst dated for almost 10 years.

Durst is reportedly spotted in the backyard of his South Salem, N.Y., home on his 58th birthday, which would also have been his and Kathleen's 29th wedding anniversary.

In Galveston, Texas, Durst rents a room in a four-plex apartment house at 2213 Avenue K, across the hall from Morris Black. He rents the room under the name Dorothy Ciner, posing as a mute woman who claims to be Durst's sister-in-law, and conveys that her brother-in-law, Robert Durst, will visit her often. She communicates with the landlord, Klaus Dillman, via notes only. Dillman later tells police that he received many complaints from residents about the yelling between Durst and Black. Authorities also later reveal that the only Dorothy Ciner known to them is a long-ago classmate of Durst.

A neighbor of Durst in Galveston observes him loading bags into a car. She tells this to police later in the investigation. On the same day, a 13-year-old boy fishing with his family finds a dismembered torso in the waters near 81st Street and Channelview Drive in Galveston. Police find limbs in four garbage bags nearby. Also in the garbage bags are items that lead investigators to the apartment house where both Durst and Morris Black live. Police find a trail of blood that runs from Black's apartment to Durst's, and blood is found under Durst's floor tiles. The owner of the building, Klaus Dillman, tells police that Durst's room is leased to a woman named Dorothy Ciner, who claims to be Durst's sister-in-law.

Police find a .22-caliber pistol and two ammunition clips in a trash can behind Durst's Galveston apartment building. One ammunition clip is full and one is one bullet shy of full. They also find a spent shell casing. The same day, a man checks into the Holiday Inn Express on 102 Seawall Boulevard. He gives the name Jim Turss, but the license plate number he gives is the same as that of the vehicle Durst is driving when police arrest him the next day.

Durst goes to an optometrist in Galveston to pick up glasses. Police act on a tip, and Durst is arrested and later indicted for Black's murder. Durst is carrying a 9mm pistol and a butcher's saw, and they find a receipt from a New Orleans drycleaner in his pocket. Unaware that Durst is a billionaire, bail is posted at $300,000. Bail is paid and Durst is freed. Police later learn that Deborah Charatan posted the money.

New Orleans landlord Michael Ogden finds a note from one of his tenants — a mute woman — that says her plans have changed and the apartment is no longer needed. In addition to the note, the landlord finds a wig, videotape of a news program about Kathleen Durst's disappearance and a silver medallion that once belonged to Durst's friend Susan Berman. The tenant also left behind the keys to a Honda CRV. Ogden contacted police in November, when he saw news of a fugitive who fit his tenant's description.

Durst gives a New Orleans telephone number while trying to lease a Dallas apartment by phone, police later learn.

Durst does not show up for a court hearing in Galveston and becomes the country's first billion-dollar fugitive. A grand jury indicts him on charges of murder.

A private investigator working for the Durst trust fund later tells police that Durst made a telephone call from a New Orleans pay phone on Oct. 17.

Police believe Durst is visiting a friend in Plano, Texas, and go there to search the home. They believe they've missed Durst by just two hours.

Police learn about Durst's wife, Deborah Charatan, in New York when she tries to withdraw money from a Durst bank account that officials are monitoring. In an interview with New York investigators, Charatan says she does not know where Durst is and that she believes he might have committed suicide since his release from jail shortly after the Oct. 9 arrest for which she posted the $300,000 bail.

Durst is reportedly seen at a northern California campground where he spends the night in a pup tent in the midst of a group of retired police officers. The Lazy Devil B campground, owned by Diane Bueche, is about 50 miles north of Eureka, Calif., near the coast.

At a Manhattan news conference Durst family trust lawyer Michael Kennedy appeals to Durst to surrender himself. Durst's family fears a manhunt might end in violence.

Texas Judge Susan Criss orders Durst held on $1 billion bond in the event of his capture.

Morris Black's sister, Gladys Saslow, a resident of Peabody, Mass., files a civil action in Texas against Durst seeking unspecified damages relating to her brother's death.

In New Orleans, investigator Sgt. Cody Casalas speaks to Michael Ogden, who contacted police after he saw Durst's mugshot in a magazine. He tells them about the mute woman, the wig, the videotape and the silver medallion.

Black's sister, Gladys Saslow, asks the New York Supreme Court to block the sale of any assets Robert Durst has in the state. The court issues a summons for Durst to appear and answer the complaint.

Police arrest Durst in Hanover Township, Pa., for the theft of a sandwich, a newspaper and a Band-Aid from Wegmans grocery. Police seize two guns, Morris Black's South Carolina driver's license and an undisclosed amount of marijuana from the rented car.

Transported to Galveston, Durst pleads not guilty to the murder of Morris Black.

State District Court Judge grants a motion by Durst attorney Dick DeGuerin to exclude mention of Kathleen Durst's 1982 disappearance or Susan Berman's 1999 murder from Durst's trial.

Durst's lawyer says his client will admit to killing Morris Black after evidence mounts against him, but Durst will plead not guilty by reason of self-defense and accident.

Jury selection begins.