Robert Durst Dies in Prison 4 Months After Murder Conviction

usmagazine.com:

Robert Durst, the real estate heir who was convicted of murder last year, has died at age 78, Us Weekly can confirm.The New York City native died on Monday, January 10, while serving a life sentence for the 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman.“Mr.

Durst passed away early this morning while in the custody of the California Department of Corrections,” his lawyer, Chip Lewis, told Us in a statement. “We understand that his death was due to natural causes associated with the litany of medical issues we had repeatedly reported to the court over the last couple of years.”Durst’s story became famous in 2015 when HBO released a six-part docuseries about him titled The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.

He had long been associated with the disappearance of his ex-wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, and the murder of Berman, but at the time he had not been charged with any crimes relating to their deaths. (He was acquitted of the murder of his neighbor Morris Black in 2003 but convicted of tampering with evidence related to the crime.)During the finale of The Jinx, Durst seemingly confessed to one or more murders as a microphone caught him muttering, “What the hell did I do?

Killed them all, of course.”The day before the finale aired in March 2015, Durst was arrested on murder charges for the death of Berman.