Usa, new trial for Robert Durst: “It was he who killed his wife 40 years ago”

Multimillionaire Robert Durst has been indicted for the murder of his first wife, Kathie McCormack Durst, who mysteriously disappeared nearly 40 years ago. Durst, heir to a real estate empire whose symbols soar in the Manhattan skyline, is currently serving a life sentence in California for the murder of Susan Berman, his friend and confidant, who according to investigators helped him hide the murder of his wife. After the Los Angeles court ruling on October 14, which sentenced him to life in prison, 78-year-old Durst was hospitalized with Covid-19 and was transferred to a prison medical facility last week. The indictment was decided by a New York grand jury. In announcing the decision, Westchester prosecutor Mimi Rocah explained that her office has “relaunched the investigation” of Durst since last January, setting up a dedicated case unit with the necessary professionalism and resources. The indictment of the millionaire, he said, is “a huge step forward in the search for justice for Kathe Durst, her family and all victims of domestic violence.” The woman mysteriously disappeared after a quarrel with her husband “Fake news!”, Was instead the reaction of Robert Durst’s lawyer, Chip Lewis, to journalists who asked him to comment on the news. Subsequently, when asked by the Guardian, about the possibility that he is still defending Durst in court, the lawyer replied: “I’m not sure he’ll make it. But if he does, I’ll let you know.” Kathie McCormack Durst, Robert Durst’s young wife, returned to the cottage where the couple used to spend their weekends in South Salem, New York on the evening of January 31, 1982. After yet another quarrel with her husband, mysteriously disappeared. As the US press recalls, the woman left no message for her mother, for her sisters or brother, or for her friends. The body of the woman, who was 29 at the time and was about to graduate in medicine, was never found.Her disappearance gave rise to a saga that lasted almost 40 years, in which police investigations, countless articles of press, books, a film and a TV documentary, all focused on the figure of the husband. Just an Hbo documentary, broadcast in 2015, managed to bring the story back to the center of the news. In one sequence, apparently unaware of being caught on camera, Durst seemed to admit he had committed murders, muttering to himself, “I killed them all, of course.” After the disappearance of his wife, Durst got a divorce in 1990, due to abandonment. At the request of the family, the woman was declared legally dead in 2017. The millionaire was never formally charged with anything. However, it was found by the Los Angeles court that in December 2000 Durst shot Berman, killing her, because she was about to report her involvement in Kathie Durst’s death to the police. The victim, the prosecution reconstructed in court, had told friends that he had provided a bogus alibi to Durst after his wife disappeared. Durst was eventually found guilty of Berman’s murder last September and on October 14 sentenced to life in prison. After the sentence, Los Angeles attorney John Lewin called him a “narcissistic psychopath”, saying he was confident that Durst had “killed his wife and then had to keep killing to hide it.”