For Dr. Frank Meza, a marathon was no big deal. He had run dozens of them in his 70 years and had a simple prerace routine: wake up early, slam a cup of coffee, no stretching, maybe a light warm-up. The morning of the L.A. Marathon on March 24, he pulled on a pair of […]
Did Robert Durst Murder His Own Best Friend, ‘Mafia Princess’ Susan Berman?
Susan Berman had been dead for 14 years when Robert Durst called Nick Chavin in December 2014 saying he wanted to talk about the unsolved murder of their friend, Berman, and the 1982 disappearance of Durst’s first wife, Kathleen. “Susy”—as Berman was known—a speed-talking journalist and screenwriter with an exotic background and a career that […]
The Last Caravan: Hope for Salvation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Died Along with Two Honduran Teens
Sometime around Thanksgiving, before the biblical rains came, Jorge Alexander Ruiz Duban walked over the San Ysidro Bridge with his new best friend, another young Honduran named Jasson Ricardo Acuna Polanco. The bridge, which spans the Rio Tijuana, leads to a long, fenced-in walkway that connects Mexico and the United States. It’s one of the […]