http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/15/re ... w-orleans/Real estate heir Robert Durst arrested in New Orleans on murder charges, attorney says
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.
In 2014, Durst was arrested for urinating on a drug store candy display near his home in southwest Houston, KPRC reports.
Durst is the eldest son of Seymour Durst, a prominent figure in Manhattan real estate. The family operates numerous skyscrapers in New York City, including 1 World Trade Center, which it runs for the Port Authority, Pix 11 reports.
Maybe His Luck Has Finally Run Out...
Maybe His Luck Has Finally Run Out...
Re: Maybe His Luck Has Finally Run Out...
there was an article about him a couple of days ago. Someone must have known that things were about to blow up.
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