Murder trial of real estate tycoon Robert Durst in hands of Los Angeles jury
CNN
More than six years after a crime documentary triggered a murder charge against real estate scion Robert Durst, a jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday began deliberating the fate of the eccentric Manhattan millionaire.
Durst is charged with the first-degree murder of his close friend and confidante, Susan Berman, in 2000, at her Beverly Hills home, hours before she was set to talk to investigators about the mysterious disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, who was last seen in 1982.
The defendant sat in a wheelchair, wearing a baggy gray blazer and white shirt, as closing arguments ended and Judge Mark Windham sent the panel to the jury room. The nine women and three men began deliberations just after noon local time.
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