Burt Reynolds Got Away With Murder!

Psycho superstar killed love rival with his fists in jealous showdown

RAGING monster Burt Reynolds brutally beat love rival David Whiting to death with his bare hands in a jealous brawl over sexy movie beauty Sarah Miles — and got away with the murder!

That’s the explosive conclusion of a three-year GLOBE special investigation which exposes a shocking cover-up that allowed the movie heartthrob to cheat justice in the brutal Feb. 11, 1973, slaying in a low-rent Gila Bend, Ariz., motel.

Although local lawmen were convinced Whiting, 26, was murdered during a showdown with Reynolds, the coroner’s report issued after the incident claims the actress’s business agent died from an overdose — and the bloody wound on the back of his head and cuts and bruises on his body “had no bearing on his death.”

But now, officials connected to the original investigation tell GLOBE it was murder — pure and simple!

“The Travelodge motel crime scene was covered up by prominent figures in Hollywood,” a retired cop who probed the death reveals to GLOBE. “When we first arrived, it was hectic — a bloodbath.”

Reynolds and Miles, his costar in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, which was being shot around Gila Bend, both gave statements to investigators, according to a cop who was at the murder scene for 12 hours.

“Originally, they spoke to us without censoring their words. Days later, they hired a ritzy Hollywood lawyer and their stories changed,” says the police officer, who asked GLOBE to conceal his identity. “They were coached.”