Lawyers: Robert Durst wrote note about location of body

LOS ANGELES — Lawyers for Contemporary York staunch property heirRobert Durstacknowledge that he penned a demonstrate tipping off police to the quandary of the physique of a first price friend he’s accused of killing, in conserving with court docket paperwork.

In a court docket filing Christmas Eve in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, lawyers for Durst conceded he had written the demonstrate directing police to the dwelling of his simplest fair exact friend, Susan Berman, in December 2000.

Durst, 76, pleaded no longer guilty to assassinate in Berman’s death but suggested a documentary film crew that the letter might maybe well maybe handiest like been despatched by the killer.

The revelation change into made in a joint filing by protection lawyers and prosecutors on stipulations for a trial scheduled for Feb. 10. Attorneys for Durst stated they made the concession as a strategic decision after the steal agreed to confess the evidence in response to diagnosis by handwriting consultants.

The protection stated they might be able to silent contest that ruling on allure. Attorney Dick DeGuerin stated in an email to The Associated Press that the protection will no longer notify on the stipulation.

“This does no longer commerce the facts that Bob Durst didn’t abolish Susan Berman and he doesn’t know who did,” DeGuerin stated.

Durst is accused of taking pictures Berman on the help of the pinnacle at point-smooth fluctuate in her dwelling. He feared his onetime unofficial spokeswoman change into going to repeat police what she knew about the mysterious disappearance of his partner, Kathleen, in Contemporary York in 1982, prosecutors stated.

Kathleen Durst has by no technique been came upon and change into declared unimaginative two years in the past. Robert Durst, reportedly worth $100 million, is actually apt the prime suspect in her presumed killing but has by no technique been charged.

Witnesses who testified in pretrial hearings stated Berman suggested them Durst acknowledged killing his partner and that she helped him duvet up the crime. They also testified that Berman stated if anything came about to her, Durst would be to blame.

The demonstrate despatched to the Beverly Hills Police Department has been regarded as a smoking gun in the case since the finale of “The Jinx: The Existence and Deaths of Robert Durst” aired on HBO in 2015.

Durst change into shown the demonstrate written in block letters that handiest incorporated the take care of of Berman’s rental and the note “cadaver.” He denied writing the demonstrate but stated handiest the killer can like written it.

The envelope change into addressed in enormous block letters with Beverly misspelled “Beverley.” Durst began to allege when the filmmakers confronted him with a practically an identical demonstrate he once wrote to Berman with the name misspelled the similar technique.

The interview then ended and Durst walked exact into a bathroom unaware he change into silent carrying a are residing microphone. He change into heard muttering to himself: “You are caught! What the hell did I attain? Killed all of them, obviously.”