Robert Durst, A Millionaire Murderer, Has Died In Prison.
According to his lawyer, millionaire convicted murderer Robert Durst died in prison at the age of 78.
Durst died in a California prison after pleading guilty to the murder of his acquaintance Susan Berman in September.
He assassinated her in order to prevent her from speaking to the authorities about his wife's abduction. He is suspected of killing two more people, according to police.
In an HBO criminal documentary series about himself, the US real estate heir turned fugitive unintentionally confessed.
Durst's lawyer, Chip Lewis, confirmed that he died in the hands of the California Department of Corrections at the San Joaquin General Hospital.
He claimed that he died of "natural causes" and that he had been suffering from a variety of medical problems.
Durst was sentenced to life in prison in October for the murder of Berman, a long-time confidante and publicist, in 2000.
Due to the Covid epidemic, his trial had been postponed for more than a year. According to his trial counsel, he was admitted to the hospital with Covid and placed on a ventilator two days after his sentencing.
Durst was investigated after a recording of him confessing was used in the 2015 HBO documentary series The Jinx. His family owns a series of New York City skyscrapers, including an investment in the World Trade Center.