Jury selection is set to begin for the trial of Robert Durst, the New York real estate heir charged with the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago. The infamous case inspired a feature film and documentary series.
In this Dec. 21, 2016 file photo, Robert Durst sits in a courtroom in Los Angeles. Durst faces trial in the slaying of his best friend 20 years ago. Jury selection begins Wednesday, Jan.19, 2020, in Los Angeles.
Prosecutors intend to use the note and a web of circumstantial evidence to put Durst behind bars for three killings he’s suspected of committing over nearly four decades. They will be up against a legal team that won Durst’s acquittal in one of those deaths. Suspicion has dogged Durst since his wife vanished in a New York suburb in 1982, a mystery that brought not only attention from the city’s tabloids, but The New York Times. Berman was Durst’s unofficial spokeswoman at the time and prosecutors said she helped him cover his tracks. No has ever been charged in the wife’s disappearance and presumed killing.
“Kathie’s death was the impetus for all of the tragic events that happened afterward,″ prosecutors said in court papers. They said Durst “devised and carried out a diabolical plan to cover up the killing of his wife which ultimately cost two other people their lives.″ He blinked, burped and put his head in his hands before denying being the killer. After the interview, he went to use a toilet unaware he was still wearing a microphone. Filmmakers didn’t realize until two years later as they were editing the film that they captured audio of him in the bathroom.
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