Susan Jane Berman (May 18, 1945 – December 23, 2000) was an American journalist, author, and the daughter of Davie Berman, a Las Vegas mob figure. She wrote about her late-in-life realization of her father's role in that criminal empire. Berman became a longtime friend and confidant of billionaire Robert Durst, who was suspected of foul play in the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen McCormack. Berman was found dead on Christmas Eve 2000 in her home in Benedict Canyon, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Fifteen years later, on March 14, 2015, Durst was arrested in New Orleans and charged with first-degree murder in connection with Berman's death.