Frail-looking Robert Durst denies killing best friend

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ANDREW DALTON

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A frail-looking Robert Durst struggled to hear his attorney as he took the stand at his murder trial - in a wheelchair, not a witness chair — and denied killing his best friend two decades ago.

Durst, 78, looked extremely feeble and strained to speak Monday as his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, took the risky move of calling a murder defendant to testify.

“Bob, did you kill Susan Berman?” DeGuerin said to open the testimony of the New York real estate heir.

“No,” Durst answered.



New York real estate scion Robert Durst, 78, answers questions from defense attorney Dick DeGuerin, left, while testifying in his murder trial at the Inglewood Courthouse on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif. Durst is charged with the 2000 murder of Susan Berman inside her Benedict Canyon home. He testified Monday that he did not kill his best friend Berman. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)


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Robert Durst, accused murderer and subject of "The Jinx," is worth an estimated $65 million.

[SergeStorms]

1. He reminds me....

of those old mafioso 'Dons' who would come to their trials in wheel chairs, with tanks of oxygen, attending nurses etc. just for the theater of looking too old and frail to be guilty of anything.

Maybe I have it all wrong. Maybe he's very I'll and frail. It's merely an observation.

[cstanleytech]

2. Possible but then again don't forget even those with money do fall prey to illnesses like

Steve Jobs for example.

[Grokenstein]

3. Also that bastard Augusto Pinochet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/05/pinochet.chile

But more immediate questions presented themselves to startled observers. Was it the air of his homeland which revived the frail old man on his return after 503 days of detention in Britain? Or could it be that he had hoodwinked the doctors whose report gave Home Secretary Jack Straw humanitarian grounds for his return?

The Pinochet who flew home in triumph was very different from the frail old man who arrived in Northwick Park Hospital in a wheelchair two months earlier for an examination by a team of medical specialists. He had to be helped into bed and have his hearing aid checked.

Human rights organizations have claimed a Chilean naval psychiatrist had been staying in England with Pinochet since last August and that she had coached him on how to fail the tests.

[PatSeg]

5. It has become a cliche

How could someone so sickly and frail be a murderer? Just a nice old man!

[obamanut2012]

7. Cosby and Epstein did the same thing

[IronLionZion]

8. Harvey Weinstein pulled that nonsense too

and was widely ridiculed for it

[BradAllison]

12. Same with the Golden State Killer Joe D'Angelo

Then they released tapes from his cell doing pushups and climbing the walls.

[ripcord]

9. There is an organized crime connection

Susan Berman was the daughter of Davie Berman who worked with Myer Lansky.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Saw a before/after prison image of Bill Cosby where he was not crippled and blind any more after his

Saw a before/after prison image of Bill Cosby where he was not crippled and blind any more after his release.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. Filthy rich people be crazy

They really are. Some of them even murder and rape for fun and profit.

[Corgigal]

10. Not frail enough.

East Area Rapist/Murderer play that too. The day before he was riding all over town on his motorcycle. F these guys.

[Mortos]

11. If you watched the documentary, "The Jinx"

You know he killed her and it's not his first or even second murder. He killed his first wife and his neighbor before killing Susan Berman and admitting it on tape. He has killed multiple people and gotten away with it because he is white and rich. Being frail does not preclude him from being convicted and spending the rest of his miserable life in prison, where he belongs.