Real estate heir, Robert Durst, 78, has been charged with the murder of his wife in 1982.
Kathleen (Kathie) Durst was his first wife who disappeared. The criminal complaint was filed by a New York state investigator on Thursday. The prosecutors are accusing the ailing Durst of committing second-degree murder.
The convicted killer was arrested based on admissions made in the HBO documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. And tapes were played in the Berman trial. Durst talked to the filmmakers for around 20 hours.
Just last week, Durst was found guilty of killing his friend Susan Berman twenty-one years ago. Prosecutors are alleging Berman helped him to cover up the murder of his wife. And that Durst shot Berman before she could talk to the police.
Kathie Durst’s body was never found. And Robert Durst claimed she abandoned him while divorcing her in 1990. Kathie was 29 when she disappeared. And in 2017, at the request of her family, she was declared legally dead.
Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah issued a statement Friday that the office can “confirm that a complaint charging Robert Durst with the murder of Kathleen Durst was filed in Lewisboro Town Court on October 19, 2021. We have no further comment at this time”.
