KILLER DURST GUILTY

Murdered LA pal

Robert Durst, the onetime heir to a New York real estate fortune and longtime suspect in his exwife’s Westchester County disappearance, was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder for killing his longtime friend Susan Berman.

A Los Angeles jury returned the verdict after more than three days of deliberations. Durst (in- set), 78, was not in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. He faces life in prison. Prosecutors argued Durst shot and killed confidante Berman at pointblank range in 2000 to prevent her from telling police about a fake alibi she provided after his wife, Kathie Durst, disappeared in 1982.

Berman allegedly made a suspicious phone call to the dean of Kathie’s college the night she was last seen, impersonating the missing woman to tell the educator she would be out sick the next day.

Although he was only tried for Berman’s murder, prosecutors argued he killed Kathie — and planed to flee the country after an incriminating HBO documentary about the alleged murders aired.

They also introduced evidence from a Texas trial, where he was acquitted of murdering neighbor Morris Black after going into hiding in Galveston to avoid what he believed were imminent charges in the death of his wife, whose body was never found.

In that case, Durst admitted to killing Black, but said it was in self-defense.

Durst famously appeared to confess to the murders during the miniseries “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”

“Killed them all, of course,” Durst was caught muttering to himself on a live mic. The show also exposed him lying about writing a note that directed cops to Berman’s corpse.

He was arrested in 2015 in New Orleans a day before the final episode aired.