The last time Robert Durst was on trial for murder, he testified that he had dismembered his elderly neighbor's body, put it in garbage bags and tossed them in the Gulf of Mexico.
He was still acquitted and set free, with Texas jurors in 2003 accepting his testimony that Morris Black had died in a struggle over a gun.
When opening statements begin Wednesday in Durst's next murder trial, for the killing of his close friend Susan Berman nearly 20 years ago, Los Angeles County prosecutors will have an even harder case to prove; one that unlike the last almost entirely lacks physical evidence.
