Suspected serial killer Robert Durst boasted of killing and EATING a prostitute and claimed he kept the body of his missing wife in an old suitcase, former pal claims

SUSPECTED serial killer Robert Durst once bragged about how he killed and ATE a prostitute, according to a former pal.

The notorious multi-millionaire also allegedly brought an old suitcase round to the same friend’s house and boasted that his missing wife’s body was in it – before callously claiming: “I like to take her out sometimes”.

The former acquaintance – who uses the pseudonym “William Steel” to protect his safety – has made the shocking claims in a bombshell new book “Sex and the Serial Killer: My Bizarre Times with Robert Durst”.

In an exclusive interview, Steel, a reformed jewel and art thief, told Sun Online he has gone public about his time with Durst to try and obtain justice for the killer’s alleged victims.

Controversial Durst, who is currently on trial over the murder of Susan Berman, is an American real estate heir, who was convicted of killing and dismembering his neighbour Morris Black in 2001.

He is also suspected of murdering his first wife Kathleen McCormack Durst, who went missing in 1982 and is accused of murdering Susan, who was shot in the head in Beverly Hills, California, shortly before she was set to speak to investigators about Kathleen’s disappearance.

Durst became infamous in 2015, during a HBO documentary called “The Jinx” in which he was overheard muttering to himself: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course” when he believed his microphone was turned off.

Steel said he first met Durst by chance in 1982, after which the rich heir spent years trying to draw him into his “demented world of drug and fetish-fueled sex and other perversions”.

Describing Durst as “extremely dangerous”, he believes that he may have many more victims – including a young prostitute he brought round to his Brooklyn home in the 80s.

Durst used to rent out a room in Steel’s home so he could bring prostitutes round for sex and bondage sessions – away from the glare of his wealthy family.

Steel recalls how one night he brought round an 18-year-old prostitute with two distinctive cherry tattoos on her pubic area.

Some time later Steel said he saw the same girl in one of Steel’s explicit photographs – bound and gagged and with a knife and fork on her belly.

When Steel asked him what the knife and fork were for, Durst allegedly replied “Why, I ate her of course,” before adding “You don’t want to know the details – but the cherries were the best part.”

Steel claims on a separate occasion Durst confessed to him that he had tortured, strangled and ate the young girl.

“I absolutely believe he killed and ate her,” Steel said. “I think he admitted killing Kathleen to her and then had to get rid of her.

“I remembering him making comments about her and her cherry tattoos and he said they were the best part of her and talked about how she’s no longer with us.

“I felt sick. I was too stunned to ask any more about it.”

Steel said Durst would show up to his house with satchels containing “everything a sadistic serial killer would need” including whips, restraints, handcuffs, leg irons, chloroform, latex gloves, knives, pliers, valium and saws.

Another time, Steel claims he taped him confessing to killing his wife – and others – and burying her in a “barren place in New Jersey” where he “checks” on her all the time.

He says he kept three of Durst’s satchels and the tape but after various stints in jail – and several moves – he no longer has them.

Steel also recalls how one time Durst showed up at his house with an old suitcase and claimed his missing wife Kathleen – a 29-year-old medical student who disappeared in New York – was inside. Durst was the last person to see Kathleen alive – and her body has never been found.

“He said: ‘I want to introduce you to Kathie… I like to take her out sometimes’,” Steele recalls.

Stunned Steel ordered him to leave his property and take the suitcase with him.

Durst later told him that he had brought the “body” to prove he had really killed his wife because he felt Steel didn’t believe him.

“It was an old, beat up suitcase from the 50s, something you might see stickers on from different countries plastered all over it,” Steele said.

“It was a dreary day and the power wasn’t on so it was a dark scene – I’m used to just patting him to see if he’s armed and then hearing him out and see what he wants to do on that particular day.

“Then he told me Kathie was in the suitcase – he wanted to open it and get it out but I wouldn’t let him.

“It was surreal. I don’t know what was in the suitcase – maybe he was just trying to shock me or gauge my reaction – or maybe he had a medical specimen in there or maybe it was Kathleen. I’ll never know.”

Steel said he wanted to call the police at the time but was afraid because he was on parole and had guns and burglary equipment in the house.

He does however regret not doing something to stop Durst when he had the chance.

“I’m a Christian now, so I kind of don’t like saying it, but if I killed him or found a way to turn him in years ago, there might be a few other people alive today,” Steel said.

“He made comments about my brother, he threatened my sister and my wife, he hired a private investigator to get photos he tried to blackmail me with. He caused me a lot of anguish.”

Steel says he has come forward to two separate law enforcement agencies with his claims and would be happy to testify at Durst’s trial if required.

“I would absolutely be willing to testify,” Steel said. “I actually don’t want to – because I don’t want to be looking over my shoulder over the rest of my life – but I think somebody needs to speak up for the dead because if we don’t speak up for the dead, who’s going to?

“I want Durst to be held accountable for what he has done and for the families of the victims to finally get some answers.

“He’s used his money to get away with his crimes all his life – he’s spent millions on investigators and attorneys to try and derail the investigation and to spy on the investigators.

“He hired investigators try to track me down. The perfect example is how he admitted killing and dismembering a man but was not convicted for murder.”

Co-author Gary Greenberg told Sun Online he was certain that Steel’s claims are true and hopes the book will help bring Durst to justice.

“If I hadn’t believed them, I wouldn’t have written this book – I’ve known him for a little while and there are certain other factors which convinced me that he’s got a good track record of being reliable and honest.

“He’s found religion and he repented of his own lifestyle in the past and he’s on this crusade to try to help bring justice to this monster who he dealt with for many years because the guy paid him pretty handsomely for use of his apartment.

“So I think he feels a sense of guilt because this guy paid him pretty handsomely for use of his apartment and now he wants to rectify things.”

Durst has long maintained he has nothing to do with the deaths of Susan or his first wife. He did admit killing and dismembering Morris in Galveston, Texas, but claimed he was acting in self defense.

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