N.Y. DA to release Kathie Durst homicide report
Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced Tuesday her office will release a report this week detailing the investigation into the decades-old homicide of Kathleen Durst.
Her husband, Robert Durst, a former heir to his family’s immense New York real estate fortune, died last week while serving a life sentence in California for the murder of his friend and confidante, Susan Berman. Prosecutors claimed Berman helped cover up Durst’s role in his wife’s disappearance.
After being convicted in Berman’s death, Durst was indicted in November in his wife’s homicide.
The case gained renewed attention after
Durst appeared on “The Jinx,” an HBO documentary series about his crimes. During filming, Durst was caught on a microphone
allegedly confessing to the three killings to which he had been linked in the past 40 years. He was arrested in 2015 days before
the series’ final episode aired.
Rocah’s office said the report, which will be released Wednesday during a morning news conference, details “certain facts gathered during the investigation” into his wife’s
death. Rocah’s office said she “will discuss many of the facts that were gathered during the investigation into the disappearance of Kathleen Durst.”
Kathleen McCormack Durst disappeared on Jan. 31, 1982 at the age of 29. A graduate of what was then Western Connecticut State College in Danbury, Kathie Durst attended a party in Newtown and vanished later that night after returning home in South Salem, N.Y.
Rocah’s office said the district attorney will be joined at Wednesday’s news conference by retired New York State Police investigator Joseph Becerra, along with members of the New York State Police and bureau chiefs from the Westchester District Attorney’s Office.
In addition to his wife and Berman, Robert Durst was also accused of killing Morris Black, a neighbor he allegedly shot in his apartment in Texas. Durst, who was accused of dismembering Black’s body, was acquitted of the killing after claiming self-defense.