article_snippet: Prosecutors accuse Durst of "lying in wait" and killing Susan Berman, a crime writer and his longtime confidante, because Durst "was a witness to a crime.
article_snippet: Berman was shot in the head in Berman Beverly Hills, California, home in December 2000, shortly before investigators were set to speak with Berman about the disappearance of Durst's first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, in 1982.
article_snippet: Durst has long maintained Berman had nothing to do with Berman's death or Berman wife's disappearance.
article_snippet: In "The Jinx," Berman's stepson stumbles upon a signed letter from Durst to Berman's home in Beverly Hills.
article_snippet: In the HBO documentary, Durst denies he has anything to do with writing the "cadaver" letter, and that he has anything to do with Berman's death.
article_snippet: It also said Durst planned to visit Berman around the time of Berman's death.
article_snippet: In a 2003 murder trial, Durst admitted Berman'd killed neighbor Morris Black in Galveston, Texas, and chopped up the body.