Robert Durst Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder in His Wife’s Disappearance
The New York Times
Mr. Durst, who was sentenced to life in prison in California two weeks ago, now faces another trial in New York.
Kathie McCormack Durst, the young wife of a real estate scion, returned to the couple’s weekend cottage in South Salem, N.Y. on the evening of Jan. 31, 1982, and after yet another argument with her husband, she vanished.
There was no note to her mother, Ann, to her sisters and brother, or her friends. Her disappearance started a nearly 40-year saga that has included criminal investigations, breathless media coverage, books, a film and a documentary, much of it centered around her now-notorious husband, Robert A. Durst.
Now, decades after her disappearance — and just weeks after Mr. Durst was convicted of murder in another woman’s death in Los Angeles — prosecutors in Westchester, N.Y., say they can finally prove what many have long suspected.
