US millionaire murderer Robert Durst dies in prison, taking his crime secrets to grave
- Real estate heir was serving a life sentence for killing best friend Susan Berman, and was prime suspect in two other murders
- Durst, 78, was the subject of a Hollywood movie and the widely seen HBO documentary series ‘The Jinx’
Real estate heir and convicted murderer Robert Durst, who was jailed for life for the killing of his best friend, died Monday in a California prison.
Multimillionaire Durst was the subject of an explosive HBO documentary The Jinx, which ultimately led to his conviction over one of the three gruesome deaths for which he was believed to be responsible.
Durst’s lawyer Chip Lewis said the 78-year-old succumbed to “natural causes associated with the litany of medical issues we had repeatedly reported to the court over the last couple of years”.
Durst was convicted last year of the December 2000 shooting of Susan Berman in her Beverly Hills home.
Crime writer Berman, the daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, had taken on the role of Durst’s spokeswoman after he became a suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Kathleen, 18 years earlier.
Prosecutors said he had murdered Berman to prevent her from incriminating him in a renewed police investigation into the disappearance of Kathleen Durst.