US multimillionaire Robert Durst convicted of murdering best friend
- The real estate heir is also suspected of killing his missing wife and a Texas neighbour who discovered his identity when he was hiding from the law
- The trial came after Durst’s apparent confession in a TV documentary, when he was caught on a hot mic saying to himself that he had ‘killed them all, of course’
A California jury on Friday found multimillionaire real estate heir Robert Durst guilty of murdering his best friend Susan Berman in 2000, the first homicide conviction for a man suspected of killing three people in three states over the past 39 years.
Durst, 78, faces up to life in prison. Superior Court Judge Mark Windham, who oversaw the trial, will set a date for sentencing.
The nine-woman, three-man jury had deliberated for 7½ hours over three days.
Los Angeles County prosecutors called Durst a “narcissistic psychopath” who killed Berman in an attempt to cover up the disappearance of his wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, in New York in 1982.
Durst was only on trial for killing Berman in California, but prosecutors argued he murdered three people: his missing wife, Berman and a neighbour in Texas who discovered his identity at a time when Durst was hiding from the law.