Les anglonautes

About | Search | Vocapedia | Learning | Podcasts | Videos | History | Culture | Science | Translate

 Home Up

 

Vocapedia > USA > Violence > Killers

 

Robert Durst  1943-2022

 

 

 

 

Robert Durst, 78, in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday

as he was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole

for a murder 21 years ago.

 

Photograph:

Pool photo by Myung J. Chun

 

Robert Durst is on a ventilator with Covid, his lawyer says.

NYT

October 16, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/
world/robert-durst-covid-ventilator.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Durst during his murder trial in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

 

Photograph:

Alex Gallardo/Associated Press

 

Robert Durst’s Murder Trial Begins After Decades of Suspicion

Mr. Durst,

the one-time heir to a Manhattan real estate empire

who is suspected of several deaths,

is on trial for the execution-style killing of a close friend.

NYT

Published March 10, 2020

Updated Oct. 13, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/
us/robert-durst-trial.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert A. Durst at his November 2016 arraignment

in the fatal shooting of Susan Berman.

 

Photograph:

Pool photo by Kevork Djansezian

 

Lawyer Says Robert Durst’s Former Friend Concocted His Story of a Confession

NYT

February 17, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/
nyregion/robert-durst-susan-berman-trial.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Durst in court in Los Angeles in 2016

to face charges in the killing of Susan Berman.

 

He was convicted in September of 2021.

 

Photograph:

Pool photo by Jae C. Hong

 

Robert Durst, Real Estate Scion Convicted as a Killer, Dies at 78

He was a suspect in three lurid murders and became a fugitive.

In September,

he was found guilty in the fatal shooting of a confidante

and sentenced to life in prison.

NYT

Jan. 10, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/
obituaries/robert-durst-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=

 

 

Robert A. Durst in custody in 2015,

the year he was charged with killing Susan Berman,

a journalist who had been his spokeswoman and staunch defender.

 

Photograph:

Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times

 

Robert Durst, Real Estate Scion Convicted as a Killer, Dies at 78

He was a suspect in three lurid murders and became a fugitive.

In September,

he was found guilty in the fatal shooting of a confidante

and sentenced to life in prison.

NYT

Jan. 10, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/
obituaries/robert-durst-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Durst in court in 2014.

He was the focus of one of America’s longest running true-life crime thrillers,

the case of a tycoon who used many aliases in an odyssey

that spun off books, films, television dramas and avalanches of online commentaries.

 

Photograph:

Mike Segar/Reuters

 

Robert Durst, Real Estate Scion Convicted as a Killer, Dies at 78

He was a suspect in three lurid murders and became a fugitive.

In September,

he was found guilty in the fatal shooting of a confidante

and sentenced to life in prison.

NYT

Jan. 10, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/
obituaries/robert-durst-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, left, and Robert A. Durst

outside an office tower on the Avenue of the Americas between 43rd and 44th Streets

built by the Dursts in 1970.

 

Photograp: Marc Smerling.

 

Stranger Than Fiction? Try Fact

NYT

December 1, 2014

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/
arts/television/hbo-plans-documentary-on-robert-durst.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NYT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathleen and Robert Durst as a young couple in the 1970s.

 

Photograph:

Jim McCormack/HBO

 

The Robert Durst Case That Was Decades in the Making

The subject of HBO’s “The Jinx” was convicted of killing a close confidante in 2000,

to stop her from revealing what she knew about the disappearance of his wife.

NYT

November 1, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/article/robert-durst-trial.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Durst in 1957, when he was 14,

with his siblings, Tommy, 6; Douglas 12; and Wendy, 10

in their Scarsdale, N.Y., home.

 

They built a model of a skyscraper that their father, Seymour Durst,

was building on East 42nd Street.

 

Photograph:

John Orris/The New York Times

 

Robert Durst, Real Estate Scion Convicted as a Killer, Dies at 78

He was a suspect in three lurid murders and became a fugitive.

In September,

he was found guilty in the fatal shooting of a confidante

and sentenced to life in prison.

NYT

Jan. 10, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/
obituaries/robert-durst-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Alan Durst    1943-2022

 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/robert-a-durst

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/
obituaries/robert-durst-dead.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/
1071863707/robert-durst-real-estate-heir-dies-in-prison-at-78

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/01/
1051278966/robert-durst-indicted-1982-murder-wife-kathie

 

https://www.nytimes.com/
article/robert-durst-trial.html - November 1, 2021

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/16/
1046786931/robert-durst-covid-19

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/
world/robert-durst-covid-ventilator.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/
1046188663/robert-durst-hbo-the-jinx-life-in-prisonmurder

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/
1038465926/robert-durst-convicted-of-murder-in-best-friends-killing

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/
us/robert-durst-trial.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/
811851891/robert-durst-murder-case-featured-in-hbo-documentary-goes-to-trial

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/
nyregion/robert-durst-susan-berman-trial.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/
nyregion/robert-durst-pleads-not-guilty-to-2000-murder-in-los-angeles.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/
nyregion/family-of-robert-dursts-first-wife-asks-court-to-declare-her-dead.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/03/
465436032/robert-durst-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charge-accepts-7-year-sentence

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000003575262/
robert-durst-says-he-killed-them-all.html - March 16, 2015

 

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/16/
393352930/does-success-of-hbos-the-jinx-herald-new-form-of-true-crime-tv

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/
arts/television/hbo-plans-documentary-on-robert-durst.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/11/
nyregion/disappearance-under-scrutiny-after-18-years.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Vocapedia

 

violence, abuse, prostitution,

sexual violence, rape, harassment,

kidnapping, crime, police,

arrest, investigation, custody,

police misconduct / brutality / violence > USA

 

 

drugs

 

 

www > cyberbullying, online abuse / violence

 

 

 

 

 

Related > Anglonautes > Arts > Movies > Documentaries

 

Andrew Jarecki    USA

 

 

 

 

 

Related

 

The Intercept > Podcasts > Murderville        USA

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/
murderville/id1443674380?mt=2

 

 

 

home Up