Real estate heir and suspected serial killer Robert Durst will spend 7 years and a month in prison after he pleaded guilty to a weapons charge.
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The New York Times reports that Judge Kirk D. Engelhardt approved a defense motion in federal court on Wednesday to send the 73-year-old to Terminal Island minimum-security federal prison outside Los Angeles. According to his plea agreement, Durst will be heading to California within a couple of weeks, prosecutor Michael McMahon said.
Durst, who entered and left the courtroom in a wheelchair, expressed anticipation about the move to the West Coast, telling the judge that he has been “wanting to get to Los Angeles for nearly a year to enter my not guilty plea”. Engelhardt also fined Durst $5,000 and said that his sentence, once served, would be followed by three years of supervised release.
The New York property heir has steadfastly insisted that he is innocent in the death of Susan Berman.
He’s charged in California with killing his friend Susan Berman in 2000.
McMahon and DeGuerin said Durst also will forfeit more than $44,000 found in his hotel room when he was arrested and $117,000 in a package sent to Everette Ward, the name under which Durst had registered, and intercepted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after his arrest.
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Attorneys said Durst would be in Los Angeles by mid-August. In 2003, the businessman, who is believed to have murdered Kathleen, was acquitted in the 2001 murder of his Texas neighbor, Morris Black, despite testifying that he had dismembered Black’s body after “accidentally” shooting him. Durst, in a court filing Monday, April 25, 2016, is asking a federal judge to recommend a Los Angeles-area prison when he’s sentenced on the weapons charge that’s kept him in Louisiana pending his trial on a California murder charge. The location is near the trial venue and has medical facilities Durst needs because of his ‘advanced age and serious health considerations, including mobility challenges’. “Killed them all, of course”. The show ended with an audio recording in which Durst is heard muttering “What the hell did I do?”
