Robert Durst is hospitalized with Covid days after life sentence, his attorney says
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Robert Durst, a New York-based real estate scion and long-time friend of Susan Bermans was looking at the jurors in Inglewood as he appeared with his lawyers for the closing arguments. Inglewood Courthouse, Wednesday, September 8, 2021, Inglewood (CA).
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New York City in Disgrace real estate heirRobert Durst contracted Covid-19, and is now on a ventilator. His attorney told NBC News
Dick DeGuerin said to the outlet, “We know that he tested positive for Covid-19. His condition was terrible on Thursday. He couldn’t breathe and he had trouble speaking.
Two days ago, Durst (78), was diagnosed. sentenced to life in prisonFor murdering a friend of more than 20 years ago. Jurors convicted DurstSusan Berman was killed in a shooting accident last month. She was hit in the back with a bullet in her home.
According to the prosecution, Berman had been supposed to talk with police about an alibi that she gave to the real estate heir after his wife disappeared in 1982. (Kathie Durst was never found, and is presumed to be dead.
Durst, NBC News reports, then fled to Galveston Texas where he disguised his identity as Dorothy Ciner.
Durst later dismembered and killed Morris Black in Texas in September 2001. However, he was cleared in court due to self-defense claims.
Durst returned to the limelight after a 2015 HBO Series entitled “The Jinx: The Life and Death Robert Durst,” in which he confessed to his murders.
A microphone that Durst was wearing recording him in the bathroom whispering to himself: “You’re caught! Was that really what I did? They were all killed, naturally.”
Durst was detained in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2015.
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