Virus Puts Durst Murder Trial on Hold
The long-awaited trial of New York real estate heir Robert Durst was put on hold Sunday for at least three weeks because of concerns throughout the court system about the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
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Robert Durst Described as an Abusive Husband
Weeks before she vanished forever, the wife of New York real estate scion Robert Durst was distraught, fearful and anxious to escape her marriage, two of her siblings and a close friend told a Superior Court jury Thursday.
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Durst ‘Doesn’t Make Good Decisions,’ His Lawyers Say
Robert Durst, accused of murdering his close friend nearly 20 years ago, will testify that he discovered her body but did not kill her, his defense attorney told jurors and a stunned courtroom audience on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors Pile up Evidence in Durst Murder Trial
Robert Durst all but confessed to murdering his dear friend Susan Berman on two occasions, a Los Angeles deputy district attorney told a Superior Court jury Monday.
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Prosecutors Say Durst Confessed to Murder Three Times
Susan Berman was shot to death because she told Robert Durst that police wanted to question her about the presumed murder of Durst’s long-missing wife, Kathie Durst, a Los Angeles prosecutor said Thursday.
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Robert Durst Finally Goes to Trial on Murder Charge
Nearly 20 years after Susan Berman was shot dead, Robert Durst, the eccentric New York multimillionaire made infamous by an HBO true-crime series, went on trial Wednesday charged with murder in Los Angeles Superior Court.
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Lawyers Agree Robert Durst Wrote Incriminating ‘Cadaver’ Note
Attorneys for New York real estate heir Robert Durst acknowledge he penned a note tipping off police to the location of the body of a friend he’s accused of killing, according to court documents.
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Robert Durst Loses a Round as Murder Trial Approaches
A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by defense attorneys for accused murderer Robert Durst to strip the producers of an Emmy-winning documentary series about Durst’s alleged crimes of protection under California’s journalist shield law by having them declared “government agents.”
Read moreToo Late for Sister-in-Law to Sue Robert Durst
A wrongful-death lawsuit for the disappearance of Robert Durst’s first wife is 35 years too late, a New York judge ruled Monday.
Read moreJudge Allows Durst’s Damaging Admissions as Evidence
When New York real estate heir Robert Durst goes on trial early next year for murder of a longtime friend, jurors will hear damaging admissions he made to his chief prosecutor during a long interview the day after his arrest, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreDurst Defense Attorneys Want Search & Questioning Suppressed
Defense attorneys for Robert Durst told a Los Angeles judge on Tuesday that nearly every aspect of the eccentric New York multimillionaire’s arrest on charges of murdering a friend years earlier was flawed, including the search of Durst’s hotel room and the lengthy interview he later gave his prosecutor.
Read moreJudge Sets Date for Robert Durst Murder Trial
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 moreDurst Arraigned
New York real estate scion Robert Durst pleaded not guilty Thursday in the 2000 murder of his best friend, Susan Berman.
Read moreJudge Orders Robert Durst Tried on Murder Charge
Quoting 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 more‘Killed Them All, of Course’
Two 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 moreWitness Says Durst’s Wife Feared His ‘Homicidal Side’
The 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 Piles Up in Robert Durst Murder Hearing
Evidence 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 moreProsecutors Demand That Robert Durst Be Tried for Murder
A 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 moreDurst Murder Detective Had Sex With a Witness
The 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 moreProsecutor Irks Judge in Durst Murder Hearing
Testy 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.
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