Robert Durst pleads guilty to gun charge


Real estate scion Robert Durst pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing a .38-caliber rifle, a crime because he is a convicted felon. The FBI found the gun after he was arrested in March 2015 on suspicion that he was poised to flee the country.
Durst will be sentenced to 85 months in prison as part of a plea deal, and will eventually face charges that he murdered his friend, Susan Berman. Some believe Berman knew about foul play involved with the vanishing of Durst's first wife, Kathleen, in 1982, and that she was killed by Durst to be kept silent.
Durst — whose story is told in the true-crime HBO series The Jinx — is also under the suspicion of murdering his neighbor, Morris Black, although he was acquitted by a jury in 2003 after arguing he had grappled with Black over a gun and the death was accidental. Durst has not been charged in the disappearance of his first wife.
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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.
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