Robert Durst has died at the age of 78
Robert Durst. Photo: Alex Gallardo/AP/Shutterstock Robert Durst, presumed serial killer and subject of the 2015 documentary The Jinx, has died at the age of 78. According to his attorney, Chip Lewis, Durst was transported to the San Joaquin General Hospital to undergo tests, but went into cardiac arrest. His health — not good even before his murder conviction in September — declined further after he was hospitalized for COVID-19 in October, days after a judge sentenced him to life in prison.
An heir to a commercial real-estate dynasty, Durst is believed to have murdered three people: His wife, Kathleen, who vanished under suspicious circumstances in 1982; his longtime friend and alibi for the night of Kathleen’s vanishing, Susan Berman, in 2000; and his neighbor, Morris Black, in 2001. Durst received his life sentence for Berman’s murder; prosecutors argued that he confided in Berman after he killed Kathleen, then turned around and murdered her to keep her from talking.
The law caught up with Durst at a Pennsylvania Wegmans, where he had been shoplifting a chicken salad sandwich. Though he admitted to sawing and chopping his across-the-hall neighbor limb from limb, he said, during a 2003 trial, that his actual death had been an accident: He purportedly shot Black in the face after his gun went off while the two men fought. Seeing as no one ever found Black’s head, prosecutors could not disprove the narrative, and Durst was acquitted.
It took about five years for Durst to stand trial for Berman’s murder, the date repeatedly pushed because of his health; Hurricane Harvey; a surprise admission that, actually, Durst wrote the letter telling police where they could find Berman’s body — “something only the killer could have written,” he said in the doc — and finally, the pandemic. The trial began in May 2021 and concluded with his first-degree murder conviction in September.
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