Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more than two decades ago.Durst, 78, was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court last month of first-degree murder for shooting Susan Berman point-blank in the back of the head at her home in December 2000.
Durst silenced Berman to prevent her from incriminating him in the reopened investigation of his wife's 1982 disappearance in New York, prosecutors said.Berman provided a phony alibi for Durst when Kathie Durst vanished, prosecutors said.Prosecutors also presented evidence that he intentionally killed a neighbor in Galveston, Texas, in 2001, though he had been acquitted of murder in that case after testifying that he shot the.
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