Robert Durst dies in prison

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Robert Durst, the eccentric New York City real estate scion who left behind a trail of corpses and the mystery of a body never found, died Monday at age 78.

“Mr. Durst passed away early this morning while in the custody of the California Department of Corrections,” said Durst’s lawyer, Chip Lewis. “We understand that his death was due to natural causes associated with the litany of medical issues we had repeatedly reported to the court over the last couple of years.”

Durst was convicted of the murder of a friend in 2000, who prosecutors said he killed to cover up the slaying of his wife nearly two decades earlier. Durst, prosecutors contended — and jurors believed — shot pal Susan Berman to keep her from singing to the cops.
The wheels of justice finally caught up to Durst in 2021, when he was convicted on Sept. 17 in the Dec. 23, 2000 killing of Berman. Authorities contended Durst killed his wife Kathie in 1982. Her body was never found, and Durst took whatever knowledge he had of the crime to his grave.

“Susan Berman was a witness to a crime and was intentionally killed,” the jury forewoman said when announcing the guilty verdict against Durst.

On Oct. 14, Durst was sentenced to life in prison for the Berman slaying, with Deputy District Attorney John Lewin calling Durst a “narcissistic psychopath.”

“He’s 78 years old,” Lewin said. “He’s been walking around for a long time. He had a lot more of a life ... Kathie didn’t make 30. On balance, considering what he’s done, he got a lot more of a life than he was entitled to.”

What happened to the good old days of sending people like him to the loony house? . . .

Stephen Seager knows he could lose his job, but he doesn’t care.  He did not ask his employer’s permission to write "Behind the Gates of Gomorrah", an account of the rampant and unchecked violence that Seager says he has both witnessed and experienced as a psychiatrist at California’s Napa State Hospital.  The forensic facility, the second-largest in the country, houses "the school shooters, the James Holmeses, and Jeffrey Dahmers of the world", as Seager puts it.  Nor did he warn the hospital that the book is being published this week. . .

Source:  This Daily Beast Article 

Note: While The Daily Beast is not (in my opinion) the most reliable source of information, the experiences related in the cited article are similar to my own as a delivery driver for the Michigan state correctional system, and to my cousin's own experiences as a medic in the same system.  Those inmates were not just scary, they were blood-chilling evil, and I hope to never see any one of them on the outside.

May this man rot in Hell!