Real estate heir Robert Durst, far left, sits during his murder trial at the Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 5, 2020. Defense attorneys, David Chesnoff, top left, and Dick DeGuerin, far right. After a Hollywood film about him, an HBO documentary full of seemingly damning statements, and decades of suspicion, Durst is now on trial for murder. In opening statements Wednesday, prosecutors will argue Durst killed his close friend Susan Berman before N…
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March 5, 2020 11:13 p.m.
Prosecutor: Victim confided in Durst and it got her killed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Susan Berman sealed her fate when she told best friend Robert Durst, falsely, that detectives had asked to talk to her about Durst's wife's disappearance 18 years earlier, prosecutors said Thursday.