Robert Durst falls ill with Covid-19 two days after his life sentence
Prosecutors called Robert Durst a “narcissistic psychopath.”
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WASHINGTON – The Millionaire Robert Durst is hospitalized for Covid-19, said his lawyer this Saturday, two days after a Los Angeles court sentenced him to life in prison for ending the life of the writer Susan berman, murdered in 2000 by a shot in the head.
“All we know is that he has tested positive for COVID-19, is in a hospital and on a respirator,” said his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, in a phone call with the television network NBC News.
“Thursday he had a terrible appearance, I have never seen him so bad. It was difficult for him to breathe, it was difficult for him to speak, ”he added.
Durst, 78 years old, he is the heir to one of the richest families in New York, which became rich thanks to the real estate business, although in 1994 his father chose his younger brother Douglas to take over the family business.
His story is recounted in the HBO documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”, a program directed by Andrew Jarecki that he himself Durst He proposed, eager that someone would let him tell his life.
The life sentence against him was confirmed this Thursday, a month after a popular jury found the businessman guilty of a crime of murder for which he was formally charged in 2015, although Durst He was already a suspect in two other murders dating back more than three decades.
According to the verdict, Durst shot Berman, with whom he had a friendship, at his home in Beverly Hills (USA) as the woman had witnessed another crime allegedly committed by him.
Berman died before telling investigators what he knew about the disappearance of Kathleen McCormack, the ex-wife of Durst who has been missing since 1982.
McCormack disappeared without a trace in 1982 after expressing his desire to divorce from Durst, in a case that remained unsolved.
A decade later the Police reopened the investigation and in 2000 Berman, who until then had interceded as a friend in favor of Durst, was found dead of a shot to the head shortly before she could be questioned about what happened to McCormack.
To these two disappearances is added a third, in 2001, and for which Durst he pleaded guilty but was acquitted.
The tycoon admitted to killing and later dismembering his neighbor in a Texas town, whose carcass was found floating in the sea.
Durst He was tried and exonerated by a jury, which determined that he had acted in self-defense after a struggle with the victim, although the prosecution indicated that the businessman’s true intention was to steal the identity of his neighbor to evade Justice.
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