The family of real estate heir Robert Durst’s ex-wife, who he is accused of killing, say they will drop their $100million dollar lawsuit against him if he reveals the location of her body.
Durst, 75, is suspected of killing his first wife Kathleen ‘Kathie’ Durst after she disappeared in New York in 1982.
Kathie’s three sisters Carol Bamonte, Mary Hughes and Virginia McKeon opened the lawsuit against Durst in 2015 over the disappearance of their sibling, whose body is yet to be found.
Their attorney Bob Abrams said the siblings, who have been accused of chasing after Durst’s money, are willing to drop the lawsuit if he leads them to her body.
Millionaire Robert Durst, 75, is suspected of killing his first wife Kathleen Durst, pictured above in January at a pretrial hearing after he was charged with murder of friend Susan Berman
Durst, left, is accused of murdering Kathleen, right, who disappeared in New York in 1982, in a $100million lawsuit by Kathleen’s sisters, who will drop the case if he reveals where her body is
‘Just to be 100 percent clear if, in the next 48 hours, Durst or one of his co-defendants tells us where he dumped Kathie’s body so we can retrieve it, we would immediately drop this lawsuit against him,’ attorney Bob Abrams told The Post Thursday outside court.
Durst, who comes from a wealthy New York real estate family who helped build the One World Trade Center, has been involved in pretrial hearings in Los Angeles for more than a year.
He is charged with the 2000 murder of Susan Berman, a longtime friend and confidante.
He is believed to have shot her dead to prevent her from telling police what she knew of his alleged murder of his first wife Kathie.
Prosecutors say that Durst killed Berman in fear she would expose him.
Kathleen and Durst pictured together prior to her disappearance 36 years ago in New York
Durst is in Los Angeles prison on charges of murdering Susan Berman, his longtime friend (together above), to whom he allegedly admitted to killing his wife and feared she’d tell police
He was arrested in New Orleans on March 14, 2015 and charged with killing Berman – who had acted as an informal spokeswoman for him, fielding constant media inquiries that followed Kathie’s disappearance.
He is currently in Los Angeles prison as trials are on hiatus until October.
Durst claims he did not murder either of the two women.
He nor his legal team have responded to the offer of Kathie’s family.
In court Thursday, Durst’s lawyers argued for Nassau County Court Justice Roy Mahon to seal a letter written by a former cop that blames Durst for Kathie’s murder.
Judge Mahon will decide on June 14 if that letter in question will go public.
The letter, written by the cop on February 12, will ‘inculpate Durst in the disappearance and murder of Kathleen McCormack Durst’, according to attorney Abrams.