Robert Durst, 78, will spend the rest of his life in a California prison for the fatal shooting of his longtime confidante, Susan Berman, in 2000.
Robert Durst will live out the rest of his days in a California prison for killing his longtime confidante, Susan Berman, inside her Los Angeles home in 2000, a judge ordered Thursday.and upheld the special circumstances allegation that the 78-year-old real estate scion shot his friend in order to cover up the killing of his first wife, Kathie, in New York in 1982.
Still, others who who loved Berman acknowledged her closeness with her killer, even as they expressed frustrations with him. Andrew Jarecki, the filmmaker behind the HBO documentary “The Jinx” that reinvigorated national interest in Durst as well as Berman’s murder, and several jurors from the trial were also in attendance Thursday. Nick Chavin, who, was also in the gallery.
Durst has denied all wrongdoing in both cases and his lead defense attorney, Dick DeGuerin, has said he will appeal his conviction in Los Angeles. DeGuerin filed a motion for a new trial, arguing the evidence at trial was deficient, but Windham swiftly dismissed the filing on Thursday. Los Angeles police arrested Durst in a New Orleans hotel in 2015, shortly before “The Jinx” finale aired. It took nearly two years for Durst to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom after authorities in Louisiana filed charges against him when marijuana and a handgun were found in his hotel room.
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