Tag: Robert Durst

Frail-Looking Robert Durst Denies Killing Best Friend

LOS ANGELES—A frail-looking Robert Durst struggled to hear his attorney as he took the stand at his murder trial—in a wheelchair, not a witness chair—and denied killing his best friend two decades ago. Durst, 78, looked extremely feeble and strained to speak Monday as his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, took the risky move of calling a…


‘He’d Like to Murder Me,’ Estranged Durst Brother Testifies

LOS ANGELES—The estranged brother of Robert Durst, the real estate heir on trial in his best friend’s slaying, reluctantly testified Monday that the two never got along and he feared his oldest sibling would kill him. “He’d like to murder me,” Douglas Durst bluntly told jurors in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Douglas Durst, head…


Defense Says Durst Had No Motive, Didn’t Kill Close Friend

LOS ANGELES—In a blunt rejection of what prosecutors told jurors a day earlier, a defense lawyer said Wednesday that multimillionaire Robert Durst had no motive to murder his close friend Susan Berman and had nothing to do with her shooting. “Bob Durst did not kill Susan Berman and he doesn’t know who did,” attorney Dick…


Motion for Durst Mistrial Denied, ‘Gory’ Evidence Allowed

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (CNS)—A Los Angeles judge April 12 denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the case of Robert Durst, a New York real estate scion charged with murder for a longtime friend’s killing in Benedict Canyon just before Christmas Eve 2000, ruling that evidence the defense sought to exclude can be admitted. Durst’s…