New York real estate heir Robert Durst will finally go to trial Sept. 3 on charges he murdered his close friend Susan Berman 18 years ago, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge declared Tuesday. At that trial, the jury will also hear that the 75-year-old eccentric multimillionaire killed and dismembered a neighbor in Texas, Morris Black, less than a year after Berman’s death.
Read moreNew York real estate scion Robert Durst pleaded not guilty Thursday in the 2000 murder of his best friend, Susan Berman.
Read moreQuoting Robert Durst’s own words from a television documentary, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered the eccentric multimillionaire to stand trial on charges of murdering his close friend 18 years ago.
Read moreTwo months after the HBO documentary series “The Jinx” presented the conclusion that New York real estate multimillionaire Robert Durst had likely murdered three people, Durst told a friend from jail that he made a mistake talking to the show’s producers.
Read moreThe long-missing first wife of New York real estate heir Robert Durst told her medical school professor she was terrified of her husband, who had “a homicidal side,” the professor told a Superior Court judge Wednesday.
Read moreEvidence in the murder case against eccentric New York real estate scion Robert Durst will show he killed his friend and confidant Susan Berman in 2000 to keep her from revealing his involvement in the disappearance and presumed murder of his young wife nearly 19 years before, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Read moreA hearing on whether New York real estate heir Robert Durst should stand trial for the December 2000 murder of his close friend got under way Monday with photos of the bullet wound in the back of the friend’s head and bruising to her body.
Read moreThe New York detective who led the hunt for real estate heir Robert Durst’s missing wife 35 years ago acknowledged in court Wednesday that he had sex with a witness during the investigation.
Read moreTesty exchanges Tuesday between attorneys and at one point, the judge, punctuated the cross-examination of the New York detective who investigated the disappearance of Robert Durst’s wife 35 years ago, and conceded that he failed to follow up on leads that could have implicated the eccentric real estate heir.
Read moreThe New York police detective who led the unsuccessful investigation of the disappearance of Robert Durst’s first wife Kathleen in 1982 testified Wednesday that he came to suspect early on that the real estate heir may have killed her.
Read moreThe New York police detective who first investigated the disappearance of Robert Durst’s wife in early 1982 fired back Tuesday at critics who accused him of botching the case and letting the eccentric real estate scion evade justice.
Read moreA day or two before writer Susan Berman was murdered in December 2000, she told a childhood friend that she was about to “blow … wide open” the story of a rich and powerful New Yorker’s long-missing wife, the friend testified Wednesday.
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Before she vanished in 1982, Robert Durst’s wife Kathleen told an emergency room doctor that her husband had hit her and told her divorce attorney that she feared he would kill her, a former New York state trooper testified Monday.
Read moreAs real estate scion Robert Durst sat in jail awaiting trial for murdering and dismembering a neighbor in Galveston, Texas, he practiced what he would say in court and how he would say it, according to a recording of a jailhouse phone call with his wife.
Read moreWhen New York real estate heir Robert Durst told a close friend in early 1982 that his wife, Kathleen Durst, had gone missing several days earlier, Durst didn’t sound especially concerned, the friend told a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday.
Read moreRobert Durst’s personal attorney said his wife got it wrong last month when she testified that the New York real estate scion had been in Beverly Hills at the time he is accused of killing his close friend, Susan Berman.
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Susan Berman, whom New York real estate heir Robert Durst is accused of murdering, told her boyfriend that Durst had killed his own wife, Kathleen, the boyfriend testified Monday in court.
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In a final day of intense questioning and shaky memories, the wife of one of Robert Durst’s attorneys acknowledged on the stand Monday that her husband prompted her to modify her previous testimony that Durst had said he was in Los Angeles around the time he is accused of murdering his closest friend here.
Read moreUnder cross-examination Thursday, a witness who testified on Wednesday that Robert Durst was in Los Angeles at or about the time he allegedly murdered his friend Susan Berman withdrew that statement and said she wasn’t sure.
Read moreA longtime friend of accused murderer Robert Durst testified Wednesday that the New York real estate heir told her he had been in Beverly Hills around the time he is suspected of killing his best friend, Susan Berman.
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