US Tycoon Robert Durst Sentenced To Life For Best Friend's Murder
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US multi-millionaire Robert Durst, estranged member of one of New York's wealthiest and most powerful real estate dynasties has always denied the charges.
US real estate scion Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no possibility of parole for the killing of his best friend.
Durst, a multi-millionaire who was the subject of an explosive HBO documentary entitled "The Jinx," has always denied charges that he shot that friend, Susan Berman, in the back of the head in 2000 at her Beverly Hills home to keep her from talking to police about the disappearance of his wife two decades earlier.
But last month, a jury in Los Angeles took just eight hours to find the 78-year-old guilty of the execution-style slaying of Berman.
"This crime was a witness killing," Judge Mark Windham said before reading out the life sentence. "That circumstance... tremendously aggravated this awful, disturbing crime."
