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Real estate heir Robert Durst has been found guilty of the 2000 murder of a confidante who threatened to retract her alibi over the 1982 killing of his wife.
He wasn't present when the Los Angeles jury reached a verdict Friday in the lengthy murder trial of New York real estate heir. Jurors deliberated about seven hours over three days.
Durst, 78, is in isolation after his driver tested positive for Covid and now faces life in prison.
He appeared in a Los Angeles court earlier this month in a wheelchair in his current gaunt and ailing state. He pleaded not guilty to murder in the point-blank shooting of his best friend, Susan Berman, at her Los Angeles home in December 2000.
Prosecutors said Durst silenced Berman to prevent her from telling police what she knew about the disappearance and suspected killing of his wife in New York in 1982.
Durst testified he didn't kill his wife or Berman and doesn't know who did, though he said he'd lie if he had done so.
