{"id":20212,"date":"2021-10-17T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T04:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20212"},"modified":"2021-10-17T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T04:15:02","slug":"robert-durst-us-millionaire-hospitalised-with-covid-after-life-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/10\/17\/robert-durst-us-millionaire-hospitalised-with-covid-after-life-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Durst: US millionaire hospitalised with Covid after life sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary series The Jinx, has been hospitalised with Covid-19 just days after he was\u00a0<\/b>sentenced to life in prison.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Durst was found guilty on Thursday of killing his best friend Susan Berman in 2000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He murdered her to stop her talking to police about his wife’s disappearance. Police believe he killed two others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Durst, who has numerous medical issues, is on a ventilator, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He “looked worse than I’ve ever seen him,” Dick DeGuerin told the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is not clear where the 78-year-old is being treated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Prosecutors called Durst a “narcissistic psychopath”. He has denied killing Susan Berman.<\/div>\n
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His sentence for first-degree murder excludes any possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Durst’s wife Kathleen McCormack, a medical student, went missing in 1982 and is presumed dead. He was never charged over her disappearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutors have argued that Durst actually murdered three people – the third being an elderly neighbour, Morris Black.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Black had discovered Durst’s identity in 2001 while Durst was hiding in Texas and pretending to be a mute woman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Durst was acquitted of murdering Black, successfully arguing he had killed him on the grounds of self-defence before cutting up the body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Durst is an estranged member of one of New York’s wealthiest and most powerful real estate dynasties. His brother Douglas Durst, who testified at the trial, told the court: “He’d like to murder me.”<\/div>\n
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At the end of The Jinx series, Durst is heard muttering to himself: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hours before the last episode aired in March 2015,\u00a0authorities arrested Durst in New Orleans for Ms Berman’s murder<\/a>. Jurors were played the clip during the trial.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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