Prosecutor Says Real Estate Heir Robert Durst Killed His Best Friend to Keep Her Quiet About His Wife’s Death

Prosecutor Says Real Estate Heir Robert Durst Killed His Best Friend to Keep Her Quiet About His Wife’s Death
Susan Berman (L) and Robert Durst pose sometime in the mid- to late 1990s. Courtesy of Sareb Kaufman/HBO
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Prosecutors in the Los Angeles murder trial of millionaire Robert Durst, accused of killing his best friend to stop her incriminating him in the disappearance of his wife, are scheduled to start a second day of opening statements Thursday.

On Wednesday, they outlined a story that began around the 1982 disappearance of Durst’s wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, while she was apparently en route to medical school in New York. It ended with his arrest in March 2015.