How Robert Durst’s ‘cryptic’ confession in HBO series landed him back in court for 2000 murder
- Prosecutors say the 75-year-old killed his friend Susan Berman because she could implicate him in the murder of his wife.
- 2015 television series The Jinx captured him saying: ‘What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.’
Robert Durst, the subject of an HBO documentary, The Jinx, must stand trial in the 2000 murder of his long-time friend, a judge ruled on Thursday at a hearing interrupted at times by outbursts from Durst.
Durst, a 75-year-old multimillionaire, was arrested in 2015 and charged with murder in the shooting death of his confidante Susan Berman.
Prosecutors say Durst killed Berman because she could implicate him in the murder of his wife, who vanished in 1982 when the couple was living in New York City.
The grandson of a wealthy New York real estate tycoon has pleaded innocent to Berman’s murder. He will have a chance to again enter a plea at a second arraignment scheduled for November 8.
Los Angeles Judge Mark Windham, at the conclusion of a nearly two-week preliminary hearing during which prosecutors presented evidence, ordered Durst to stand trial on a charge of murder with the special circumstances that he used a gun and killed a witness by ambushing her.