National Enquirer

DISGUSTING HOSPITAL CELL!

SERIAL KILLER SUSPECT LIES IN OWN FILTH AWAITING TRIAL

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SUSPECTED psycho serial killer Robert Durst is rotting away in his own filth in a Los Angeles prison hospital as he awaits trial for the execution-style murder of his best friend, Susan Berman!

The National

ENQUIRER has obtained exclusive images of the 76-year-old crackpot’s urine-stained hospital bed behind bars in the notorious Los Angeles Twin Towers Correction­al Facility — where the cross-dresser and onetime heir to a New York real estate fortune has been sealed since 2016. Durst is facing a first-degree murder rap for shooting his college pal and closest confidant, Susan, in her Benedict Canyon, Calif., home in December 2000.

Susan had told friends that she believed Durst killed his first wife, Kathie, who went missing at age 29 in 1982.

Durst had already admitted to dismemberi­ng an elderly boarding-house neighbor in Galveston, Texas, where he disguised himself as a woman to avoid being recognized by cops looking to question him about his wife.

Shockingly, Durst beat that rap by declaring it was a matter of self-defense that he killed the man, carved up the body, and dumped pieces of it in the bay!

He was finally jailed in

2015 after he appeared in HBO’s damning, true-crime documentar­y series “The Jinx” and was caught on an open mic saying: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course!”

The once high-living Durst’s universe now consists of a filthy, cluttered jailhouse hospital room, where he lies on yellowed sheets, flanked by a life-saving breathing machine and a narrow window!

Remnants of his former life

among the privileged include a stack of classic books in a corner, including “Moby Dick” and “War and Peace.”

Copies of such high-minded magazines as The Economist, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair are also strewn about.

His wall is plastered with crudely torn magazine pages and, bizarrely, an April 3 obituary of a San Francisco private detective who had investigat­ed Durst’s case. There is also an ad for the famed New York deli Zabar’s. Durst’s estranged brother Douglas — who continues to run the family’s real estate empire — is a known pal of Eli Zabar, a son of the upscale food market’s original founders.

Durst was confined to the hospital bed after a string of serious illnesses, including esophageal cancer diagnosed in 2007, and hydrocepha­lus, a buildup of fluid on the brain.

His deteriorat­ing condition has raised concerns that he may never go to trial to answer for his alleged atrocities.

The trial was scheduled to start in Los Angeles in September but was recently postponed to Jan. 14 after a motion from his defense team.

“It’s disgusting how long it’s taken to bring him to justice,” said a source close to Susan’s family.

“He’s behind bars but his money can still buy him all this postponeme­nt and privilege in jail! Rich Markey, another close friend of Susan’s, said, “Being an extremely wealthy guy gave him the opportunit­y to get through life … but now that everybody knows his dark side, we’ll see what happens to him.

“His $100 million is worth nothing to him now!”

 ??  ?? Durst in an L.A. courtroom, in which he pleaded not guilty in
2016
Durst in an L.A. courtroom, in which he pleaded not guilty in 2016
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