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By: EFE
Sunday, November 17
Robert Durst falls ill with Covid-19 two days after his life sentence
WASHINGTON – The Millionaire Robert Durst is hospitalized for Covid – 18 , said this Saturday his lawyer, two days after a Los Angeles court sentenced him to life in prison for ending the life of the writer Susan Berman , murdered in the year 2000 shot to the head.
“All we know is that he has tested positive for covid – 19, is in a hospital and connected to a respirator ” said his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, in a phone call with NBC News.
I’ve seen so bad It was difficult for him to breathe, it was difficult for him to speak ”, he added.
Durst, from 78 years, he is the heir to one of the richest families in New York, which became rich thanks to the real estate business, although in 1994 his father chose his younger brother Douglas to take over the family business.
His story is told in the HBO documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst ”, a program directed by Andrew Jarecki that himself Durst proposed, eager that someone would let him tell his life.
The life sentence against him was confirmed this Thursday, a month after a popular jury found the businessman guilty of a crime of murder for which he was formally accused in 2015, although Durst was already a suspect in two other murders dating back more than three decades.
According to the verdict, Durst shot Berman, with whom he maintained a friendship, at his home in Beverly Hills (USA) since the woman had witnessed another crime allegedly committed by him.
Berman died before telling investigators what he knew about the disappearance of Kathleen McCormack , the ex-wife of Durst who has been missing since 1982.
McCormack disappeared without a trace in 1982 after expressing his desire for divorce leave Durst , in a case that remained without resolving.
A decade later the Police reopened the investigation and in the year 2000 Berman, who until then had interceded as a friend on behalf of Durst , was found dead from a shot to the head shortly before they could question her about what happened to McCormack.
To these two disappearances is added a third, in 2001, and why Durst was declared guilty but was acquitted.
The tycoon admitted killing and later dismembering his neighbor in a Texas town, whose carcass was found floating in the sea .
Durst was tried and exonerated by a jury do, which determined that he had acted in self-defense after a struggle with the victim, although the prosecution indicated that the true intention of the businessman was to steal the identity of his neighbor to evade justice.