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Prosecution rests at Robert Durst murder trial Real estate heir Robert Durst watches his defense attorney, Dick DeGuerin, during a May hearing in his murder trial. (Law & Crime Network / Associated Press) Aug. 3, 2021 4:38 PM PT Print L.A. County prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against Robert Durst, wrapping up months of testimony aimed to prove the real estate heir killed his best friend to cover up his alleged role in his wife’s disappearance nearly four decades ago. While Durst is charged only with the 2000 murder of Susan Berman inside her Benedict Canyon home, the pros...

Robert Durst has beat the odds for 40 years – now he faces his last murder trial Andrew Gumbel © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Al Seib/REX/Shutterstock Robert Durst has been beating the odds for close to 40 years – escaping scrutiny for the disappearance of his first wife, going un-investigated for years for the cold-blooded murder of one of his best friends and, most startlingly, winning acquittal in a murder trial in Texas in which he admitted shooting the victim and dismembering the body with a bow saw and a paring knife. But time, and luck, may be running out...

Susan Berman, a crime writer and self-described 'mafia princess' was killed inside her Benedict Canyon home in 2000. Now, her best friend, Robert Durst, focus of HBO's "The Jinx," is scheduled to go to trial accused of her murder.

Defense to remind jurors Durst says he didn't kill friend BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 14 1of14Robert Durst holds a device to read the real time spoken script as he appears in the courtroom of Judge Mark E. Windham as attorney's begin opening statements in the trial of the real estate scion charged with murder of longtime friend Susan Berman, at Los Angeles County Superior Court, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif. Durst's murder trial was delayed more than a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)Al Seib/APShow M...

1 of 22 FILE - In this March 10, 2020, file photo, real estate heir Robert Durst looks over during his murder trial in Los Angeles. Fourteen months after the murder trial of New York real estate heir Durst was put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, jurors are returning to court to see if they can finish the assignment they were given. A Los Angeles judge will question jurors Monday, May 17, 2021, to find out if they can continue to serve in the case that is expected to last four to five months. Alex Gallardo FILE - In this March 5, 2020, file phot...