The US millionaire Robert Durst (78), who has just been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a friend, has to answer for another incident in court. This time it’s about a late wife of the millionaire. He could be a serial killer.
The District Attorney’s Office in Westchester, New York, announced on Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against Durst over the disappearance of his then-wife, Kathie McCormack Durst, almost 40 years ago. The case caused quite a stir in the United States at the time, but McCormack Durst’s body had never been found – and no charges related to her disappearance had ever been brought.
Convicted of murder in October
In October, Los Angeles real estate heir, Durst, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murder of a friend over 20 years ago.
He had previously been found guilty by a jury of having shot and killed his friend Susan Berman at her Beverly Hills home over the Christmas period of 2000.
It could be his third murder
Thirst was also in court earlier. 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.
Durst was acquitted. According to prosecutors, Durst wanted to steal the man’s identity to avoid the investigation into his wife’s disappearance.
Did he confess murders in a documentary?
In the 2015 HBO documentary “The Jinx”, Durst seemed to admit the murders. He went to the bathroom while still wearing a microphone on. That recorded a series of comments that looked like a confession.
«You are caught! What the fuck did i do? Killed them all, of course, ”he said. However, according to media reports, the transcripts of the sound recordings in court showed that the quotations had been merged and edited to put them in a different order and context. (SDA)