(Finally) Convicted killer Robert Durst, 78, recently convicted in the 2000 execution-style murder of his longtime friend Susan Berman, has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
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As I noted years ago when he went to trial for the murder of fellow boarder Morris Black, he had a knack of getting away with murder. His acquittal in that case was almost as outrageous as the T. Cullen Davis case, but the jury in the Durst case in Galveston had no choice but to acquit thanks to the head never having been found and the fact they could only find for murder 1 or acquittal. There was no way for the jury to know whether Durst killed Black in self-defense or it was premeditated in some way without the head. The jury thought he did it, but there was no way given the narrow perimeters of conviction they could convict him. So, what happened was he was a free man once again until he finally gave himself away thanks to an HBO documentary about his cases and crimes.
His mouth did him in.
The bad thing here is Durst is in terrible health, so the "life without parole" isn't going to be for very long.
I seriously doubt he will ever have a "deathbed" confession and tell authorities where his first wife Kathie's remains are. He most likely killed her in early 1982, but the remains have never been found.
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