Prosecutors argued that Durst had shot Berman at point-blank range in her home to prevent her from. On October 14, a Los Angeles jury found Durst guilty of his friend's murder in which he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. A Los Angeles jury convicted Durst, 78, of first-degree murder last month for the 2000 killing. The daughter of a Las Vegas gangster, Berman had been raised to value loyalty above all else, friends testified. In September, he was found guilty in the fatal shooting of a confidante and sentenced to life in prison.
Monday's announcement of Durst's indictment also comes as the 78-year-old was charged in the 2000 death of Susan Berman on September 17 in New York, according to the Associated Press. He was a suspect in three lurid murders and became a fugitive. Durst divorced his wife in 1990, claiming legal abandonment as the reason for his decision, according to the AP.ĭurst was charged with the murder of Kathie Durst on October 22 after years of changes within the case which was reopened in 1999, according to the AP. Westchester authorities were never able to find her body, but her family declared her legally dead in 2017. In December 2000, Berman was found dead at her Beverly Hills home.
Kathie Durst went missing in January 1982 when she was 29 years old after her and Durst had an argument in their cottage in South Salem, New York.
BREAKING: Robert Durst indicted by a Westchester grand jury in the 1982 murder of his wife Kathie Jon Bandler November 1, 2021īandler also said on Twitter that an arrest warrant has been issued for Durst and "Westchester prosecutors will now seek Robert Durst's extradition from California."
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