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Durst Mystery Cottage up for Sale

It's the South Salem home from which the first wife of 'The Jinx' disappeared, a cold case covered in the HBO documentary

Kathleen McCormack Durst disappeared in 1982. She was eccentric millionaire Robert Durst’s first wife.

For years Durst maintained that she had left their lakeside cottage in South Salem and called him from their place in Manhattan -- but in an HBO special on the many mysterious deaths in Durst’s life, he admitted that he had lied about that call.

For years her family -- and former Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro -- have believed that he killed her. Police searched the cottage and Lake Truesdale, but her body has never been found and no charges have ever been brought.

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Durst sold the cottage in the 90s. It last changed hands in 2013. Now it’s back on the market for $1.1 million, according to its listing on Zillow.

In its 2,386 square feet, it has terraces, gardens, water views, fireplaces -- three bedroom suites, a vaulted-ceiling living room and an open kitchen.

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The property at 62 Hoyt St. is listed with Houlihan Lawrence; Susan Stillman is the agent.

Meanwhile, the HBO documentary series called “The Jinx, The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” broke a number of things open.

He is in prison awaiting trial in connection with the death of his former friend, Susan Berman.

Berman, his longtime confidante and sometime media spokeswoman was killed execution-style in 2000 right before investigators from Westchester County were allegedly due to question her in connection with the earlier mystery—Kathie Durst’s disappearance.

And Kathie Durst’s family members are preparing a civil wrongful death lawsuit against Durst, according to a report in New York Magazine.

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He also faces federal gun charges, because as the HBO special ended, he was under surveillance as a flight risk, and agents tracked him to a New Orleans hotel room that he had booked under a false name. In the room, they found multiple fake IDs, $42,000 in cash and a loaded revolver.

And he is not allowed to have a gun, because he does have two felony convictions: on federal fugitive-from-justice and weapons charges in connection with a death in Texas while he was living as a woman under an assumed name.

The bail-jumping and gun convictions were the only penalty he suffered in connection with the Texas case. He was acquitted of Morris Black’s murder in 2004 though he admitted he had cut his elderly neighbor’s body up and thrown the parts into Galveston Bay. The head has never been found.

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