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FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2016, file photo, Robert Durst sits in a courtroom in Los Angeles. When opening statements begin Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in Durst's next murder trial, for the killing of his close friend Susan Berman nearly 20 years earlier, Los Angeles County prosecutors will have an even harder case to prove; one that unlike the last almost entirely lacks physical evidence. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool, File)

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1 murder charge, 3 deaths loom over Durst as trial opens
March 4, 2020 4:28 p.m.

1 murder charge, 3 deaths loom over Durst as trial opens

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The last time Robert Durst was on trial for murder, he testified that he had dismembered his elderly neighbor’s body, put it in garbage bags and tossed them in the Gulf of Mexico.