14384733 (pb) Robert Durst /The Jinx
Durst FINALLY got convicted of 1st degree murder today Durst is the son of Seymour Bernard Durst (September 7, 1913 – May 15, 1995) was an American real estate investor and developer. He was the inventor of the National Debt Clock. This took forever, money talks.
"The multimillionaire New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been convicted of murdering his best friend Susan Berman more than 20 years ago, in a case that took on new life following the documentary The Jinx.
Deputy DA Habib Balian holds the latex mask that Durst used as a disguise.
Cockroaches, staged wrestling and more lies: the peculiar murder trial of Robert Durst
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Durst was found guilty of first degree murder on Friday after a jury in Los Angeles deliberated for about seven hours over three days. Berman was shot at point-blank range in her Beverly Hills home in December 2000 as she was prepared to tell police how she helped cover up the killing of Durst’s wife.
Berman, the daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, was Durst’s longtime confidante who told friends she provided a phony alibi for him after his wife vanished.
The verdict marked the first homicide conviction for a man suspected of killing three people in three states over nearly 40 years. Durst’s strange story gripped viewers of the hit television documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, which chronicled the disappearance of his wife Kathie in 1982, the cold-blooded murder of Berman in Los Angeles 18 years later, and the violent 2001 death of a roommate in Galveston, Texas, where Durst was living under cover as a deaf-mute woman.
The conviction marks a victory for authorities who have sought to put Durst behind bars for murder in three states. Durst was never charged in the disappearance of his wife, who has never been found, and was acquitted of murder in Galveston, Texas, where he admitted dismembering the victim’s body and tossing it out to sea.
Durst’s evasion of justice has seen remarkable twists and turns. Durst ran from the law multiple times, disguised as a mute woman in Texas and staying under an alias at a New Orleans hotel with a shoulders-to-head latex mask for a presumed getaway. He jumped bail in Texas and was arrested after shoplifting a chicken sandwich in Pennsylvania, despite having $37,000 in cash along with two handguns in his rental car.
He later quipped that he was “the worst fugitive the world has ever met”.
Durst later came to deeply regret his decision to participate in The Jinx after it aired on HBO in 2015, calling it a “very, very, very big mistake”.
Sauce :https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/17/robert-durst-found-guilty-of-first-degree-in-susan-berman-trial
Seymour Durst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Durst