Millionaire describes cutting up neighbour's body
New York real estate heir Robert Durst testified today that when he cut up his neighbour’s body, it was like “a nightmare with blood everywhere.”
Durst, accused of murdering 71-year-old Morris Black, had said earlier he did not recall details about the dismemberment. But when pressed by prosecutor Joel Bennett, he said he remembered the blood.
“It was like waking up from a dream or a nightmare with blood everywhere,” Durst said during his fourth day of testimony. “I remember like I was looking down on something and I was swimming in blood and I kept spitting up and spitting up and I don’t know what is real and I don’t know what is not real.”
The millionaire, who sometimes posed as a mute woman while living on Galveston Island, Texas, claims Black died accidentally during a struggle over a gun and that he cut him up with two saws and an axe and disposed of the body in Galveston Bay because he feared authorities would not believe him.
Prosecutors contend Durst intentionally shot Black and that everything he did after that showed his guilt.
Durst, 60, whose family runs The Durst Organisation, a privately held 1 billion New York company, faces from five to 99 years in prison if convicted.
