Grab for Durst’s $$
In-laws ask judge to seize ‘killer’s’ assets
The family of Kathleen Durst, whose multimillionaire husband, Robert Durst, is the only suspect in her 1982 disappearance, is asking a judge to seize his assets so he can’t dodge a possible civil judgment over her death.
“Durst has no respect for the law, let alone human life,” a lawyer for Kathleen’s mother, Ann McCormack, said in a Nassau County Supreme Court filing.
McCormack sued Durst for $100 million last month after the oddball realestate scion appeared to admit to killing Kathleen in the HBO documentary “The Jinx.”
In the film, Durst is caught on microphone muttering in a restroom: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.’’
Durst is in a New Orleans jail on gun charges and is awaiting extradition to California in the 2000 death of his friend Susan Berman, whom he is suspected of killing to silence her about his involvement in Kathleen’s murder.
In 2003, he was acquit ted in the dismemberment murder of a neighbor while hiding out from law enforcement in Galveston, Texas, and posing as a mute woman.
“Because of his decadeslong history as a serial criminal, his persistent defiance of court orders and his repeated deceptive acts and misrepresenta tions to courts . . . Robert Durst is the poster child for why courts order prejudgment attachments,” the seizure motion said.
McCormack and coplaintiffs worry that Durst may transfer his reported $100 million net worth to his second wife, Debrah Lee Charatan.