Real Estate Scion Robert Durst Dies at 78 While Awaiting Trial for Wife's Murder

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Millionaire existent property scion Robert Durst has died astatine property 78, lone a fewer months aft being convicted of 1 execution and charged successful another.

One of his lawyers confirmed Durst died Monday greeting portion successful the custody of the California Department of Corrections.

"We recognize that his decease was owed to earthy causes associated with the litany of aesculapian issues we had repeatedly reported to the tribunal implicit the past mates of years," lawyer Chip Lewis said.

Durst was charged past October successful New York with the decease of his erstwhile wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished successful 1982.

Those charges came conscionable days aft helium was sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole for murdering a confidante, whom prosecutors accidental helped him screen up Kathie Durst’s killing. Los Angeles prosecutors accidental Durst changeable Susan Berman successful 2000 arsenic she was preparing to confess her relation to police.

Durst, who had galore aesculapian issues, sat successful a wheelchair during overmuch of the sentencing hearing, and successful the days aft was hospitalized connected a ventilator aft investigating affirmative for COVID-19.

Kathie Durst was 29 erstwhile she vanished connected Jan. 31, 1982.

Her assemblage was ne'er found. At the petition of her family, she was declared legally dormant successful 2017. Robert Durst divorced Kathie Durst successful 1990, citing abandonment. Attorneys for Kathie Durst's household said Monday they would supply an update Jan. 31 connected their ongoing probe into her death.

Robert Durst was not charged successful her disappearance until past year, contempt respective efforts implicit the years to adjacent the case. Authorities reopened the lawsuit successful 1999, searching a water and the couple’s home.

“It’s a shame erstwhile anybody loses their life, however, it’s important to support successful caput that Bob Durst lived to beryllium 78 years old, decades longer than 2 of his victims. To the extremity helium was hostile, unrepentant, and unremorseful. My thoughts and sympathies prevarication with his victims," L.A. County Deputy District Attorney John Lewin, who prosecuted Durst for Berman's murder, said successful a statement.

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