Robert Durst, the real estate scion dogged for decades with the suspicion that he was responsible for the disappearance of his wife in 1982, has …
Robert Durst, the real estate scion dogged for decades with the suspicion that he was responsible for the disappearance of his wife in 1982, has been charged in New York her murder. The Westchester District Attorney’s Office confirmed that a criminal complaint charging the 78-year-old Scarsdale native with second-degree murder was filed in Lewisboro Town Court on Tuesday. It came five days after Durst was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for the 2000 murder of his best friend, Susan Berman, in Los Angeles. Prosecutors there had convinced jurors that Durst killed Berman to silence her because she knew he had killed Kathie Durst nearly two decades earlier. Kathie Durst’s body has never been recovered. She disappeared on the night of Jan.31,1982, following an argument with her husband in their South Salem cottage. For decades, Durst claimed he dropped her off at the Katonah train station so she could return to their Manhattan apartment. The next morning, a woman believed to be Berman posing as Kathie Durst called a dean at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine – where Kathie was in her last semester – to say she was too ill to attend her first day of a pediatric clerkship.
