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  • Robert Durst is eligible for the death penalty.

Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.

• About presidential libraries and land disputes? —John Dunlevy

• About the Saint Louis Browns, the most hapless franchise in 20th century baseball history? (“The Browns had to wear brown. A rich color, brown, but not a heroic color.”) —Aimee Levitt