Robert Durst pleads not guilty in 16-year-old L.A. murder case

For years, Robert Durst has slipped in and out of law enforcement’s crosshairs.

The real estate scion has been considered a suspect in the disappearance of his first wife in New York in 1982, the target of a years-long investigation into the 2000 execution-style slaying of a writer in Los Angeles and a defendant in a 2003 murder trial in Texas after he chopped up the body of a neighbor and threw the pieces into Galveston Bay.

In the case of his first wife, Durst was never charged. In the Texas slaying of a neighbor, he was acquitted by a jury even after confessing to the grisly killing.

But when Durst, 73, entered a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday afternoon, prosecutors hoped it would begin the final chapter in a cat-and-mouse game with various authorities that has spanned decades.

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