Robert Durst charged with 1982 murder of wife Kathleen Durst

• Real estate heir suspected in a string of killings across 40 years
• Kathleen Durst disappeared in 1982 and body was never found

Robert Durst has been charged in the death of his wife Kathleen McCormack Durst, nearly 40 years after her disappearance and just days after the multimillionaire real estate heir was sentenced to life in prison for killing a friend.

The 78-year-old, who has been suspected in a string of killings across the US over four decades, is accused of second-degree murder. McCormack, then 29, disappeared on 31 January 1982, and her body was never found. A New York state police investigator filed the complaint Tuesday, shortly after a grand jury in Westchester county started hearing testimony in the case.