Robert Durst began testifying in his murder trial Monday, completing a bizarre, six-year journey from his arrest in a New Orleans hotel to the witness stand in a Los Angeles courtroom.
Hobbled by old age and cancer,
During his first hour on the stand, Durst went on to recount his childhood, including his mother’s death at the family estate when he was 7 years old and the fact that he blamed his father for her passing. Durst also spoke of the first night he met the woman he is accused of murdering. While a student at UCLA in the late 1960s, he rented a room at a fraternity house one summer with two friends and testified he had hopes of “trying to pick up girls.” One day, Stuart Altman, a longtime friend of Durstbrought Berman back to the fraternity house. Durst said he and Berman quickly found a grim point to bond over: the fact that they had both lost parents at a young age.
Lewin noted in court on Monday that Durst’s illnesses did not seem to be inhibiting his ability to testify, saying the defendant had “complete command” and recall of the decades-old experiences he was relaying to the jury.Durst’s past willingness to talk about the suspicions and accusations that have hounded him for decades has been, at times, both a liability and an asset for him.
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