His whole life was stranger than fiction – and the final chapter was anything but happy. Sentenced to life in prison for the 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman, multi-millionaire New York real-estate heir Robert Durst died, still accused of killing his wife Kathie in 1982…
You couldn’t invent a man like Bobby Durst. He was a multi-millionaire and a cross-dresser. He came from one of the most celebrated families in New York. He liked urinating in public; he was the star of a hit TV series, he was a shoplifter, he dismembered the corpse of a neighbour with a bow saw and proved to a court that he didn’t murder the victim.
More recently, after years of being suspected of three murders, he went to prison for one of them, that of his long-standing friend and confidante Susan Berman.
Many suspected that his first victim was his first wife Kathie, and the sensational on-air “confession” made during the recording of the The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst appeared to back that up…