Westchester DA: Police Could Have Done More Early On To Link Robert Durst To Wife Kathleen's Disappearance
Robert Durst died last week, after being sentenced in the Los Angeles murder of his best friend, Susan Berman, in 2000.
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Robert Durst died last week, after being sentenced in the Los Angeles murder of his best friend, Susan Berman, in 2000.
His attorney said he died in a California state prison hospital facility in Stockton.
Kathie Durst disappeared in 1982 in Westchester County. Last month, her husband, Robert Durst, was indicted on charges he killed her.
Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged in suburban New York City with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982, authorities confirmed Friday.
Defense Attorney Dick DeGuerin said he was notified that Durst was admitted after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Durst, 78, was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court last month of first-degree murder for shooting Susan Berman point-blank in the back of the head at her home in December 2000.
The conviction marks a victory for authorities who have sought to put Durst behind bars for murder in three states.
Durst is charged in the 2000 shooting death of his friend, Susan Berman.
Prosecutors say Robert Durst shot and killed Susan Berman to prevent her from talking about the 1982 disappearance of his wife Kathie Durst.
The NYPD said Tuesday that it has a new lead in the murder of the first wife of Robert Durst decades ago.
A former close friend of New York real estate heir and documentary figure Robert Durst says the millionaire heir's best friend confided in him that Durst killed his first wife.
New York real estate heir and documentary figure Robert Durst is set to make a long-awaited appearance Monday in a Los Angeles courtroom to a charge of killing his friend 16 years ago.
Real estate heir Robert Durst will soon learn whether a federal judge will accept a 7-year-and-one-month sentence on a weapons charge that's kept him in Louisiana pending a murder trial in California.
Robert Durst pleaded guilty in New Orleans on Wednesday to a weapons charge.
Kathleen Durst's 101-year-old mother-in-law and three sisters are using an obscure state law on burial rights to demand $100 million from New York real estate heir Robert Durst.
A newly-released video shows bizarre behavior from suspected serial killer and New York real estate heir Robert Durst.
Louisiana gun charges against New York real estate heir Robert Durst were dismissed Thursday, clearing the way for federal proceedings in New Orleans in a similar case.
Prosecutors said Thursday in asking for the delay that defense motions and documents of more than 130 pages were submitted with two days' notice or less.
A magistrate on Monday ordered New York real estate heir Robert Durst held without bond on weapons charges in Louisiana.
Police cars were seen at Durst's Houston apartment on Tuesday.
A judge has scheduled a hearing next week for New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who faces weapons and drug charges in Louisiana and a murder charge in Los Angeles.
Robert Durst, heir to a New York real estate fortune, is waiving extradition and will return to Los Angeles to face a murder charge in the 2000 death of a writer and friend who acted as his spokeswoman.
Robert Durst, the man charged in the murder of his former spokeswoman and long suspected in the disappearance of his own wife, is also the heir to the real estate fortune of an iconic New York family.
Robert Durst was never arrested or charged in the disappearance of his wife, Kathleen Durst, more than 30 years ago.
The Los Angeles case involved Susan Berman, the daughter of a Las Vegas casino owner. The case was never officially closed, but potential new evidence has surfaced.
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