On September 18, multimillionaire Robert Durst was convicted of the murder of his friend Susan Berman.

On Thursday, the sentence, which will be life imprisonment without the possibility of release, was announced for the 78-year-old.

Susan Berman was found shot to death in December 2000. Durst was arrested on suspicion of murder in March 2015, the day before the last episode of the series The Jinx was to be broadcast.

Revealed in documentary

Robert Durst came in contact with a film team after expressing admiration for Andrew Jarecki, who directed the feature film All Good Things.

The film is about the disappearance of Durst's wife Kathleen and is based on his biography.

Jarecki decided to follow Durst, which ended in the HBO documentary The Jinx and came to revolve around the many murder charges brought against Robert Durst.

The last episode shows a scene where the documentaries with a hidden microphone were recorded when Durst during a toilet visit, and in the belief that the microphone is off, among other things said "what the hell did I do?"

and "killed everyone, of course."

The incident has been considered by the prosecution to be an acknowledgment of several murders.

Mysterious disappearance

Kathleen Durst disappeared in 1982. According to Robert Durst, Kathleen was dropped off at a New York train station and has not been seen since.

As the wife of a real estate magnate's granddaughter, she received a great deal of media attention, but she was never found and was pronounced dead in 2017.

Durst is suspected of being involved in her disappearance.

The prosecution believes that Durst's motive for the murder of Susan Berman was to expose her, as she is said to have given Durst a false alibi in connection with Kathleen's disappearance, something she would testify about the day after the murder.

The murder trial against Durst began in March 2020. It was suspended due to the corona pandemic, but resumed in May.

Robert Durst has previously been in court for the murder of his neighbor.

He was acquitted of murder but convicted of mutilating.