Robert Durst was sentenced in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday. Durst found guilty of first-degree murder will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The 78-year-old New York real estate heir was sentenced for the execution-style murder of his long-time friend Susan Berman in 2000.
Susan Berman had her own dark history. She was the daughter of an infamous Las Vegas gangster with family ties to Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky.
Robert Durst linked to 3 killings by documentary
Durst was first arrested for killing Berman in 2015, in New Orleans.
His arrest came shortly before the final episode of HBO’s series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”
The show explored three different cases to which Durst was linked. And his own words in the final episode were “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”
The prosecution’s case claimed that Berman was ready to go to the police about the 1982 disappearance of Durst’s wife. She was threatening to reveal she’d lied to provide him with an alibi for the time frame when Kathie disappeared. And that he was paying her to keep quiet. Prosecutors offered proof Durst had been sending Berman large sums of money just prior to her death.
