Robert Durst, convicted murderer, eccentric scion of a New York real estate dynasty and subject of the HBO docuseries The Jinx, has died at the age of 78, less than three months after Durst was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman. Soon after Oct.
about $100 millionProsecutors estimated Robert Durst was worth about $100 million.
HBO's 2015 documentary The Jinx, which investigates whether real estate heir Robert Durst is responsible for several murders, ended with a stunning twist. In the final scene, the filmmakers reveal that they captured audio of Durst seemingly confessing on a hot mic he didn't realize was still on.
Durst died in a state prison hospital facility in Stockton, his attorney Chip Lewis said. He said it was from natural causes due to a number of health issues. Durst was convicted in September of shooting Susan Berman at point-blank range in 2000 at her Los Angeles home.
January 10, 2022Robert Durst / Date of death
Convicted killer Robert Durst left his fortune to Debrah Lee Charatan, who was his wife at the time of his death. Read the will HERE. Charatan has 10 a.m. hearing in Houston to become executor of his estate. This all comes on the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Kathie Durst, his first wife.
He mailed a note to police that simply said, “CADAVER” and included Berman's address. The envelope misspelled Beverly Hills as “Beverley.” Durst said he didn't remember the details of writing the note because he was in a fog after taking an opioid pain-reliever the night before for a migraine headache.
In The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, Durst was confronted with incriminating evidence discovered over the course of filming and was caught talking to himself on a live microphone and saying, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”
Lewin said jurors told him they didn't believe Durst's explanations for the note or the apparent confession during an unguarded moment. Durst claimed the hot mic didn't catch his full thought, which he said was: “They'll all think I killed them all, of course.”
January 31, 1982Kathleen McCormack / Died
Durst is convicted for the murder of Susan Berman. He is later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Durst is placed on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19. State police in New York charge Durst with the murder of his wife Kathie.
Production: The All Good Things screenplay was written by Marcus Hinchey and Marc Smerling as a narrative loosely based on the real life experiences of Robert Durst, a real estate heir whose first wife, Kathleen McCormack, disappeared in 1982.