According to court papers, Robert Durst was the last person to see his wife alive on Jan. 31, 1982, and admitted to getting into a physical altercation with her before she disappeared.

The ruling by a panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, reverses a one-page determination last year by Manhattan Surrogate Nora Anderson that Kathleen Durst died in 1987.

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