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Real estate heir Robert Durst was arrested Saturday in New Orleans on murder charges, his attorney said Sunday.Durst was taken into custody around 11 p.m. local time. He is being held on a first degree warrant out of Los Angeles County by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office.Durst’s attorney, Chip Lewis, told KTRK that Durst will not fight extradition to Los Angeles. He hopes to get Durst in front of a magistrate judge in New Orleans tomorrow to start the extradition charges and plans to fight the charges in Los Angeles.Durst, 71, is the subject of an HBO miniseries “The Jinx,” about his suspected involvement in three murders.In 1982, Durst’s wife, Kathie, disappeared in California. Many believed Durst’s friend, Susan Berman, knew about his wife’s disappearance.But two days before Christmas in 2000, Berman was killed execution-style with a single bullet to the back of the head inside her home in Hollywood Hills, Calif. The series highlighted a never-before-seen handwritten letter discovered by Berman's stepson, Sareb Kaufman, who believes it was sent by Durst to Berman a year before her death, KTRK reports. Kaufman claims the letter carries similarities to an anonymous note sent to police by Berman’s killer.The letter was recently handed over to police in California who reopened their investigation into Berman’s death, the channel reported.Durst again made headlines in 2003 when he was acquitted in the murder of Morris Black, whose dismembered body was found stuffed in plastic garbage bags in Galveston Bay, Texas, two years earlier.Durst admitted he dismembered Black’s body but was acquitted after claiming self-defense.Before the trial, Durst jumped a $1 billion bond. However, he was caught in Pennsylvania weeks later after shoplifting a sandwich and Band-Aids.
Durst, 71, looked frail during his brief appearance on Monday morning in New Orleans as it emerged he was carrying a gun when arrestedHe made shocking 'confession' to his involvement in the deaths of three people in final episode of HBO documentary about him on Sunday'What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course,' Durst whispers to himself in 2012 in an unguarded moment caught on microphoneDurst suspected of involvement in mysterious 1982 disappearance of his first wife Kathleen McCormack in New York. She has never been foundDurst admitted murdering and dismembering neighbor Morris Black in Texas in 2001 - he was found not guilty in 2003
NEW ORLEANS — Multimillionaire murder suspect Robert Durst had rolled joints, travel books and maps that showed Cuba, Florida and New Orleans and a flesh-tone mask with salt-and-pepper hair in his hotel room when he was arrested on a California murder charge, prosecutors said Monday.The eccentric real estate heir was nabbed March 14 after authorities used his cellphone to track him to the J.W. Marriott Hotel in the French Quarter.He also had a handgun and 446 $100 bills.At a bail hearing on weapon and drug possession charges, prosecutors said investigators were able to pinpoint Durst’s location after he used his phone to check his voicemail twice.
