The 78-year-old millionaire is said to have killed three people, his ex-wife, an acquaintance and a neighbor. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in October.
The notorious US murderer Robert Durst is dead, according to his lawyer. The millionaire died on Monday at the age of 78 in California, as defense attorney Chip Lewis announced on request. Durst was in custody of the judiciary and died of natural causes.
Robert Durst had gotten rich as heir to a real estate company, his net worth estimated at up to $ 100 million. The 78-year-old is said to have killed three people, including two of his partners and a neighbor. As recently as October last year, a court sentenced him to life imprisonment for one of the crimes that occurred more than 20 years ago.
The jury found him guilty of shooting then-acquaintance Susan Berman at her Beverly Hills home over the Christmas period of 2000. The thirst, who suffered from bladder cancer among other things, appeared sitting in a wheelchair in the courthouse. Most recently, he was also sick with Covid-19. His lawyers had announced that they would appeal.
Durst has also been on trial before. In 2003 he confessed to having killed and dismembered a neighbor in Galveston, Texas, two years earlier. The killing was done in self-defense, he panicked and decided to dismember the body. Thirst was acquitted. According to prosecutors, Durst wanted to steal the man’s identity to avoid the investigation into his wife’s disappearance.
Most recently, a public prosecutor in the US state of New York had also officially filed a lawsuit against Durst because of the disappearance of his ex-wife Kathie McCormack Durst in 1982. The case caused quite a stir in the United States at the time, but the body of the then 29-year-old had never been found – and so far no charges had been brought in connection with her disappearance. The indictment was based on Durst’s own testimony in the 2015 HBO documentary “The Jinx”: There, Durst appeared to confess to several murders.