Robert Durst gets life for California murder of best friend
Fox News
Robert Durst, the New York real estate heir, was sentenced to … in prison in a Los Angeles County courtroom Thursday for the 2000 murder of his longtime friend Susan Berman following a lengthy, drawn-out trial.
Durst, 78, sitting in a wheelchair and dressed in a brown prison jumpsuit, was convicted last month of first-degree murder for shooting Berman point-blank in her Los Angeles-area home just before Christmas. Prosecutors alleged he killed her in an effort to silence her, as she was slated to talk to authorities about how she provided a phony alibi for Durst after his first wife vanished in 1982.
Kathie Durst went missing from the couple's South Salem, N.Y., home and has been declared dead, though her body has never been found. Durst has never been charged in her disappearance.
Several of the jurors who convicted Durst were present in the courtroom when the sentence was handed down. Durst declined to give an allocution for the crime.