US Tycoon Robert Durst Guilty Of Best Friend’s Murder

Los Angeles: US land scion Robert Durst was Friday convicted of killing his ally to stop her lecture police about his wife’s disappearance.
Durst, a multi-millionaire who was the topic of explosive HBO documentary “The Jinx,” had always denied that he shot Susan Berman within the back of the top in 2000 at her Beverly Hills home.

But a jury in l. a. took a complete of just eight hours to seek out the 78-year-old guilty of the execution-style slaying.

Prosecutors had said he murdered crime writer Berman in December 2000 to stop her from being questioned by ny police over the disappearance of his wife Kathleen 20 years earlier.

Berman, the daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, had acted as a spokeswoman for Durst after he became a suspect in Kathleen’s disappearance.

Durst, an estranged member of 1 of latest York’s wealthiest and most powerful land dynasties, was never charged in his wife’s case.

He was arrested in March 2015 during a New Orleans bedroom in reference to Berman’s murder, hours before the ultimate episode of the HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” aired.

In the documentary’s stunning finale, Durst is heard muttering to himself, “There it’s , you’re caught” and “Killed all of them , of course” — apparently unaware that a microphone remained switched on while he used the restroom.

The series also delved into the 2001 death of Durst’s neighbor in Texas, Morris Black, who was found dismembered.

Durst admitted the dismemberment, but claimed the killing was self-defense. He was acquitted.

Durst testified for 14 days during a trial that gripped local media.

He repeatedly denied any involvement in Berman’s death, but acknowledged he had written an anonymous letter to police telling them that her body lay in her Beverly Hills home.

Prosecutor John Lewin told the jury there was a “mountain of evidence” that Durst had killed all three people with whose deaths he had been connected.

He said a lover of Durst had testified that the important estate magnate had told him of Berman: “It was her or me. I had no choice.”

“He has never been held in charge of his domestic abuse of (wife) Kathie. He was never held in charge of her death. The last 20 years he’s gotten away with murdering Susan,” Lewin told the jury.

“For the last 20 years, he’s avoided responsibility for Morris Black. Durst isn’t jinxed. He’s a three-time killer who has managed to flee accountability until this very moment.”

Durst wasn’t in court when the decision was read because he was isolating following an exposure to someone with Covid-19.

He are going to be sentenced on October 18, and faces life in prison without the likelihood of parole.