Robert Durst is on trial for the 2000 murder of Susan Berman, whom prosecutors say he killed because she had information about the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst.
Douglas Durst, head of one of New York’s largest commercial real estate firms, said his brother was angry and bitter over an acrimonious inheritance settlement for tens of millions of dollars.
Real estate heir Robert Durst is on trial in Los Angeles for the murder of his friend, Susan Berman — but the odd things seen in his home after his wife vanished in 1982 were brought up in court this week.
The murder trial for suspected serial killer Robert Durst resumed as Judge Mark Windham questioned jurors to see if they remember everything in the case before its 14-month break.
“I am very concerned he can’t survive a trial,” Robert Durst’s attorney Dick DeGuerin said ahead of the resumption of his trial for the murder of friend Susan Berman.
"Bob Durst did not kill Susan Berman, and he doesn't know who did," attorney Dick DeGuerin told jurors in the opening statements of the trial Tuesday, while also announcing that Durst will take the stand.
