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THE MORNING CALL 2HH 1 SECTION BUSINESS B19 RELIGION B21 CLASSIFIED B29 sifivSSSSi. jfSjUtm1 fi 2 Easton fifth-graders suspended 33 after gun is brought to school $1 .25 million awarded to family gg from Emmaus in malpractice case SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1,2001 sippet alDew eayoilht odd Lefhooilh Robert Durst, 58-year-old cross-dressing millionaire, skipped bail on slaying, dismemberment charges. By BILL TATTERSALL And NICOLE RADZIEVICH Of The Morning Call A nationwide manhunt for the man wanted in a gruesome murder in Galveston. Texas, ended Friday afternoon when police say he got caught stealing a Band-Aid at Wegmans In Northampton County. A security camera captured 58-year- Robert Durst is shown in this undated photo made available by the Galveston, Texas, Police Department in October.

4 i 1 4 iv old Robert Durst, a 1965 Lehigh University graduate who gave police no address, taking a Band-Aid from a box to put on a cut under his nose. When security officers from the Hanover Township store stopped him they also found .4 to i Associated Press Black that Durst, reportedly worth millions, had a hoagie and a newspaper, according to Colonial Regional police. Durst gave the security officers a false Social Security number, but did not put up a struggle, Police Chief Daniel Spang said. According to the Texas City FBI office and the Galveston County sheriffs office, Durst is wanted on three became aware of the murder when one of the bags washed up on shore. "We are relieved he no longer represents a threat to the community." See CAPTURED Page B28 warrants In the Sept.

30 murder of Morris Black in Galveston one for the murder and two for bail jumping. His original bail, which was $300,000, had been increased to $1 billion after he failed to appear for an Oct. 16 court hearing. Black was cut up with a bow saw and his body parts were discarded in a black plastic garbage bag in Galveston Bay, Texas authorities said. Police Now-silent fugitive a Lehigh University grad ed high school, and pretends to be mute, presumably to hide his deep voice.

Durst has been on the run from authorities since he failed to appear for an arraignment Oct. 16 for the dismemberment of a neighbor In Galveston, Texas. Durst disappeared after posting $300,000 bail, hiding from police who also suspect he was responsible for his wife's disappearance in 1982. He has also been investigated in the execution-style slaying of a close female friend, Susan Bcrman, on Christmas Eve tn West Los Angeles. New York State Police detectives were trying to Interview Berman regarding the disappearance of Durst's wife, Kathleen, when Berman was killed.

At the time he was charged, police didn't know He's not talking, and police are wondering how lawyer knew to call. By CHUCK AYERS Of The Morning Coll No one knows why one of the nation's most wanted fugitives, Robert Durst, came to the Lehigh Valley. But he knows the area. Durst, wanted on charges of dismembering a 71-year-old Texas man, graduated from Lehigh University In 1965. Was he here for Lehigh University's first-round football playoff game against Hofstra? "That could be," said Colonial Regional police Detective Gary Hammer.

But authorities really have no Idea why he was In Wegmans in Northampton County when police arrested him after he allegedly shoplifted three items Friday afternoon. And Durst Isn't talking. "He's not saying anything," Hammer said. "Some of the police departments thought he was out of the country." Bill Johnson, director of communications at Lehigh, said he was aware of Durst's link to the school from stories In The New York Times. Not talking is something Durst is exceptionally good at, according to that newspaper.

He is a known cross-dresser who goes by the name of Dorothy Ciner, a girl with whom he attend-? See DURST Pago B28.