The trial of Robert Durst for the 2000 murder of Susan Berman opened in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

In Virginia, a NASA employee is charged with murder after allegedly shooting his next door neighbor, following a long-standing dispute.

Finally, in Louisiana, federal judges are hearing the appeal of Thomas Steven Sanders, a death row inmate who admitted to the 2010 murders of a 12-year-old girl and her mother. Sanders is appealing his conviction and his sentence on the grounds that he was not mentally competent to stand trial.

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