After years of legal wrangling and decades of suspicion, Durst now faces trial on allegations of killing his close friend Susan Berman in L.A.
Los Angeles prosecutors will begin presenting their case Wednesday against eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst, alleging he killed his best friend, Susan Berman, in her Benedict Canyon home to prevent her from incriminating him in his wife’s disappearance.
There is the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, in New York. Durst waited five days to report her missing and misled authorities about the nature of their relationship, according to prosecutors. Central to this ruse was Berman, who prosecutors allege gave Durst a “false alibi” by impersonating Kathleen Durst in a call to her medical school and giving authorities the impression that she was still alive.
Lead defense attorney Dick DeGuerin and his team will attempt to chip away at the prosecution’s theory, which links the disappearance of Durst’s wife with the deaths of Black and Berman.As Chip Lewis told The Times, despite a thorough investigation in New York that has lasted years, no one has ever been charged in Kathleen Durst’s disappearance. Further, defense attorneys argue that paltry physical evidence exists linking Durst to Berman’s killing.
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