Susan Berman

**Susan Jane Berman** (18 ga Mayu, 1945)&nbsp;– Disamba 23, 2000) 'yar jarida ce kuma marubuciya 'yar Amurka . 'Yar mai aikata laifuka David Berman, ta rubuta game da fahimtar rawar da mahaifinta ya taka a cikin laifukan da aka tsara.  A shekara ta 2000, an sami Berman da aka kashe a gidanta. Shari'ar ta ci gaba da tabarbarewa tsawon fiye da shekaru goma, har sai da aka tuhumi magajin gidaje Robert Durst, abokin Berman na dogon lokaci, da kisanta a shekarar 2015 aka kuma yanke masa hukunci a shekarar 2021.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Susan Berman a Minneapolis, Minnesota, a shekarar 1945, ɗiya ɗaya tilo ga tsohuwar Betty Ewald, wata 'yar rawa mai tafiya wacce ta ɗauki sunan Gladys Evans,  da kuma David "Davie" Berman . Berman ta dage cewa mahaifinta - wani babban ɗan ta'adda Bayahude-Amurka wanda ya karɓi ragamar Otal ɗin Flamingo bayan kisan gillar da Bugsy Siegel ya yi wa 'yan daba a shekarar 1947 - ya mutu a cikin wani yanayi mai ban mamaki a kan teburin tiyata lokacin tana da shekaru 12, amma duk alamu sun nuna cewa ya mutu ne sakamakon bugun zuciya yayin tiyata.  Ta kuma yi imanin cewa rashin tabbas ya kewaye mahaifiyarta da ake kyautata zaton ta kashe kanta ta hanyar shan ƙwayoyi fiye da kima shekara guda bayan haka.

Berman ta girma a Las Vegas , daga baya kuma, a Hollywood, California, inda abokan karatunta da abokanta a Makarantar Chadwick  suka haɗa da Jann Wenner da Liza Minnelli .  Berman ta sami digirin farko na Fasaha a 1967 daga Jami'ar California, Los Angeles, inda ta haɗu da magajin gidaje na Amurka Robert Durst . A 1969, ta kammala karatun digiri na biyu a fannin aikin jarida daga Jami'ar California, Berkeley .  An biya Berman jimillar dala miliyan 4.3 a hankali daga Mafia saboda sha'awar mahaifinta a gidajen caca da sauran kadarori. 

## Sana'a
Berman marubuciya ce kuma marubuciya a cikin littattafan tarihi guda biyu, tare da littafin jagora na kwaleji na 1971, *The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice.* Littafin tarihinta na farko, *Easy Street*, ya yi cikakken bayani game da rayuwarta a matsayin 'yar masu tayar da zaune tsaye. Yayin da take wakiltarta a shekarun 1970, William Morris Agency ta yi magana da wasu masu shirya fina-finai na Hollywood da ke sha'awar daidaita littafin zuwa fim ɗin allo . Daga ƙarshe an sayar da haƙƙin fim ɗin akan dala $350,000, amma babu wani aikin fim da aka taɓa yi.  Na ɗan lokaci, Berman ya yi ƙoƙarin ba da kuɗi ga wani kiɗa bisa ga al'amarin Dreyfus, wanda Durst ya ƙi saka hannun jari a ciki. 

A San Francisco, Berman ta yi rubutu ga kafafen yada labarai ciki har da *San Francisco Examiner*,  Francis Ford Coppola 's *City Magazine*, *Westinghouse Evening Show* akan KPIX-TV, da kuma *People* show akan CBS . Ta kasance marubuciya mai bayar da gudummawa ga mujallu kamar *New York*,  *Cosmopolitan* da *Family Circle* . Ta kuma rubuta *Driver, Give a Soldier a Lift!* da *Lady Las Vegas*, tare da fitowar wani shirin gaskiya na A&amp;amp;E a shekarar 1996, wanda ta kasance tare da marubuciya kuma aka zaɓe ta don kyautar Writers Guild of America . 

A lokacin mutuwarta, Berman tana aiki a kan wani aiki na Showtime tare da lauya Kevin Norte . Wanda aka sanya wa suna *Sin City,* ana shirin shirya shi a matsayin amsar Showtime ga fim ɗin HBO mai suna *The Sopranos* .

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Berman ta zauna kusa da Sunset Strip a kan titin Alta Loma a Yammacin Hollywood tsawon shekaru da dama kafin ta koma Benedict Canyon, a Los Angeles . Daga baya manajanta, Nyle Brenner, ta shaida wa jaridar *[[Los Angeles Times]]* cewa "ba a fayyace cikakkun bayanai game da rayuwar Ms. Berman ba" kuma ta ƙara da cewa "ta taɓa yin aure sau ɗaya a shekarun 1980, kuma daga baya ta taimaka wajen renon 'ya'yan saurayi biyu." Berman ta auri Christopher "Mister" Margulies, a watan Yunin 1984 a Otal ɗin Bel-Air ; Durst ta bi Berman a kan hanya.   Margulies ta mutu sakamakon shan heroin fiye da kima a shekarar 1986.  Berman ta ci gaba da kasancewa da kusanci da abokai a kan titin Alta Loma, a Las Vegas Strip, da kuma a birnin New York, ciki har da Durst.

## Kisan kai
An sami Berman da aka kashe, sanye da bindiga mai girman 9mm a ranar Kirsimeti ta 2000 a gidanta da aka yi haya da Benedict Canyon, kuma an yi zaton ya mutu akalla kwana ɗaya. 

A ranar 14 ga Maris, 2015, an kama Durst a New Orleans bisa sammacin kisan kai na farko, wanda aka bayar daga Los Angeles. Duk da cewa hukumomi ba su ambaci sunan wanda ake zargi da kisan kai nan take ba, jaridar *Los Angeles Times* ta fara bayar da rahoton cewa an tsare shi ne dangane da kisan Berman.  Kwanaki uku bayan kama shi, Lauyan Gundumar Los Angeles Jackie Lacey ya ce, idan aka same shi da laifi, Durst zai iya fuskantar hukuncin kisa a California saboda "shari'o'i na musamman na kisan wani shaida da kuma yin jira."  An mayar da Durst zuwa California kuma an gurfanar da shi a gaban kuliya a farkon Nuwamba 2016. 

Labarai da dama, ciki har da *Kisan 'Yar Mafia* ta Cathy Scott, sun ba da rahoton alaƙa tsakanin kisan Berman da ɓacewar matar Durst ta farko, Kathleen McCormack Durst a shekarar 1982.  Berman ya zama amintaccen abokin Durst  a UCLA a ƙarshen shekarun 1960,  kuma ya san McCormack bayan daga baya ya koma New York.  A cikin wani sharhin littafin Scott, *True Crime Zine* ya ba da shawarar cewa "masu binciken sun zo suna zargin ɗaya daga cikin abokan [Berman] na dogon lokaci, amma ba su taɓa iya tuhumarsa da kisan kai ba."  An kuma ɗauki Durst a matsayin babban wanda ake zargi da ɓacewar matarsa, kuma, shekaru da yawa bayan an gan ta a ƙarshe, a ƙarshe an tuhume shi a cikin shari'ar. 

Berman ya yi ikirarin cewa ya yi aiki a matsayin mai magana da yawun Durst, kuma ana kyautata zaton ya taimaka wa masu sukarsa a bainar jama'a.   A shekarar 1982, ta gabatar da karar da shaidar sirri, wanda Durst ya aika wa masu bincike ta hanyar fakis bayan kisan nata.  Berman ya ci gaba da kasancewa abokin Durst kuma ya sami ceki biyu na dala $25,000 wanda jimillarsu ta kai dala $50,000 daga gare shi a cikin watanni kafin mutuwarta; ta rubuta wa Durst a ranar 5 ga Nuwamba, 2000, tana nuna fatan cewa rokonta na kuɗi ba zai lalata abotarsu ba.    A farkon shekarar 2000, ' Yan sandan Jihar New York, bisa buƙatar Lauya Jeanine Pirro ta Gundumar Westchester a wancan lokacin, sun sake buɗe bincike kan ɓacewar Kathleen, kuma abokan matar da ta ɓace suka roƙe ta da ta tuntuɓi Berman don yin hira.  An kashe Berman makonni bayan da aka sake buɗe binciken. 

Sammacin kama Durst na shekarar 2015 ya ambaci wata wasiƙa da ba a bayyana ba wadda aka aika daga New York a ranar 9 ga Janairu, 2001, zuwa ofishin 'yan sanda na Yammacin Los Angeles, mai taken, "Wataƙila dalilin kisan Susan Berman." Wasiƙar ta ce Berman ya yi zargin cewa Durst yana da hannu a ɓacewar matarsa,  kuma ya bayyana cewa Durst yana shirin ziyartarta a ƙarshen Disamba. 

Scott, marubucin tarihin rayuwar Berman, ya yi wa *Shafi na Shida* hasashen cewa za a sami Durst da laifi. "Shaidar a bayyane take. Ban ga yadda zai iya fita daga wannan ba," in ji ta.  A ranar 17 ga Satumba, 2021, an yanke wa Durst hukuncin kisa kan Berman, kuma bayan makonni da dama, an yanke masa hukuncin ɗaurin rai da rai. Watanni huɗu bayan yanke masa hukuncin, ya mutu a gidan yari. 

An yi jana'izar Berman a wurin shakatawa na tunawa da zaman lafiya da ke gabashin Los Angeles, California . 

## Littattafai

### Labarai na Almara

* *Jagorar Karkashin Ƙasa zuwa Kwalejin da Ka Zaɓa* (Signet, 1971), 
* *Easy Street: Labarin Gaskiya na Iyalan Mob* (The Dial Press, 1981), 
* *Lady Las Vegas: Labarin Ciki Bayan Neon Oasis na Amurka* (Littattafan Talabijin, 1996), 

### Almara

* *Direba, Ka ɗaga Soja* ( Putnam, 1976), 
* *Tashi daga Gida* (Avon Books, 1996), 
* *Spiderweb* ( Littattafan Avon, 1997), 

## A cikin al'adun jama'a
A cikin fim ɗin All Good Things na 2010, halin Deborah Lehrman, wanda Lily Rabe ta fito a matsayin jaruma, an yi wahayi ne daga Susan Berman. Fim ɗin ya nuna yadda aka kashe Lehrman ta hanyar wata jaruma Malvern Bump, wacce Morris Black ya yi wahayi zuwa gare ta. Ana nuna cewa Bump ya kashe Lehrman bisa umarnin David Marks, wanda Durst ya yi wahayi zuwa gare shi, domin hana ta bayyana wasu bayanai game da Marks.

Labarin mutuwar da ake zargi da kisan gillar Susan Berman an rufe shi a cikin wani shirin gaskiya na CBS News Productions mai suna *48 Hours*, Season 29, Episode 19, "Murder 90210", ranar da aka fitar a ranar 30 ga Janairu, 2016 (Amurka).

Shari'ar ta kasance tushen shirin *Law &amp;amp; Order: Criminal Intent* "Maledictus".

## Manazarta