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Robert Durst Murder Case Featured In HBO Documentary Goes To Trial

The 76-year-old real estate heir is charged with the one count of murder for killing Susan Berman in a case made famous by the series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.

A few days before Christmas in 2000, Beverly Hills police received an unsigned note in the mail with the with word "CADAVER" written in block letters on one side.

On the other was an address, the home of Susan Berman where police found the body of the 55-year-old Berman, a friend, confidant and former employee of Robert Durst, the eccentric heir to a massive real estate fortune. Berman had been shot at point-blank range in the back of the

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