Robert Durst has beaten the odds for 40 years – now he faces his last murder trial

The notorious heir and subject of The Jinx documentary is on trial for the murder of his friend and confidante Susan Berman

Robert Durst has been beating the odds for close to 40 years - escaping scrutiny for the disappearance of his first wife, going un-investigated for years for the cold-blooded murder of one of his best friends and, most startlingly, winning acquittal in a murder trial in Texas in which he admitted shooting the victim and dismembering the body with a bow saw and a paring knife.

But time, and luck, may be running out for the notorious black sheep of a high-profile New York real estate family.