Robert Durst

Attorneys for Robert Durst filed an emergency motion Thursday asking a judge to postpone his murder trial indefinitely and release him on a “high bail amount,” citing the 78-year-old real estate scion’s “serious health conditions.”

A Los Angeles judge Monday denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the case of Robert Durst, a New York real estate scion charged with murder for a longtime friend’s killing in Benedict Canyon just before Christmas Eve 2000, ruling that evidence the defense sought to exclude can be admitted.

Real estate scion Robert Durst’s Los Angeles murder trial — which has already been sidelined for more than four months as a result of the coronavirus pandemic — was postponed Friday until April 12. Jurors heard opening statements and two days of testimony before the case was put on hold in mid-March due to concerns about COVID-19. Durst, 77, is…

A Los Angeles judge denied a request for a mistrial in the murder case against New York real estate heir Robert Durst after a three-month delay from the coronavirus outbreak

The California murder trial of real estate heir Robert Durst is likely to move to a new venue this summer, depending on how a judge rules on a defense motion for a mistrial.

Robert Durst’s attorneys are asking a judge to declare a mistrial in his murder case, contending that a lengthy delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic “has made it impossible” for the New York real estate scion to get a fair trial on a charge that he killed his longtime friend at her home in the Benedict Canyon area of...

A Los Angeles judge delayed the resumption of millionaire New York real estate scion Robert Durst’s murder trial for about a month and a half Saturday, marking the second postponement in the case as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Superior Court Judge Mark Windham instructed the 12 jurors and 11 alternates hearing the case against Durst to return to…

The Los Angeles murder trial of multimillionaire New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been delayed for three weeks over fears of the transmission of the new coronavirus

Robert Durst’s defense lawyer said Tuesday that the real estate heir did not kill his best friend, but found her body, panicked and fled

Real estate heir Robert Durst has never been charged in the 1982 New York disappearance of his wife, who was later declared dead.

Opening statements begin in murder trial of real estate mogul Robert Durst. As seen on the NBC4 News March 4, 2020. 

Jury selection wrapped up Tuesday with 11 alternate jurors seated for the trial of millionaire New York real estate scion Robert Durst, who is charged with murdering a friend inside her Benedict Canyon home in December 2000.

New York real estate heir Robert Durst is going on trial five years after his arrest on a charge he killed his best friend in her California home. Jury selection began Wednesday in Los Angeles.

There is almost no physical evidence connecting New York real estate heir Robert Durst to the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago. What does link him to the killing of Susan Berman, though, is a cryptic note sent to police with her address and one word: “CADAVER.” The slip of paper intended to lead authorities…

There is almost no physical evidence connecting New York real estate heir Robert Durst to the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago. What does link him to the killing of Susan Berman, though, is a cryptic note sent to police with her address and one word: “CADAVER.” The slip of paper intended to lead authorities…

Lawyers for New York real estate heir Robert Durst acknowledge he penned a note tipping off police to the location of the body of a friend he’s accused of killing, according to court documents. In a court filing last week in Los Angeles Superior Court, lawyers for Durst conceded he had written the note directing police to the home...

New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been scheduled to go on trial in late summer on charges of killing a friend in Los Angeles nearly two decades ago.

Los Angeles County prosecutors, in a newly filed motion, are pushing for jurors in New York real estate scion Robert Durst’s murder trial to hear about the 2001 killing and dismemberment of a Texas neighbor for which he was acquitted.

Robert Durst, the 75-year-old New York real estate scion accused of killing a close friend in Los Angeles’ Benedict Canyon 18 years ago, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a murder charge.

Robert Durst, the 75-year-old New York real estate scion whose sordid past was detailed in an HBO documentary series, was ordered Thursday to stand trial for allegedly killing a close friend in Los Angeles’ Benedict Canyon 18 years ago.