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NY trooper who investigated disappearance of Robert Durst's wife testifies in LA murder case

LOS ANGELES - Robert Durst's wife, Kathleen, who disappeared decades ago, told her divorce attorney shortly before she vanished that the eccentric millionaire "threatened to kill her," a retired New York state trooper who investigated her missing person case testified Monday.

The trooper, James Harney, is one of several witnesses called to the stand by prosecutors in Los Angeles to testify against the idiosyncratic real estate tycoon, who lived for years under the suspicion of New York authorities and now stands accused of

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