Guardian, UK - Robert Durst, the wealthy heir to a New York real estate fortune whose stranger-than-fiction involvement in three mysterious deaths is the subject of a riveting six-part documentary reaching its climax on HBO tonight, has been arrested in New Orleans. He is expected to be extradited to California to face first-degree murder charges.
Durst, 71, was picked up and booked on Saturday night at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department. He has a home in Houston – about four hours’ drive from New Orleans – which has been under surveillance since the documentary series started last month, according to a former prosecutor who has been after him for years...
Durst is being reinvestigated for the murder of his close friend Susan Berman, the daughter of a famous Las Vegas gangster who was shot, execution-style, in her home in the Hollywood Hills almost 15 years ago. Durst has always been a leading suspect in the killing, because Berman had potentially damaging knowledge about the disappearance of Durst’s wife Kathie, also believed murdered, from the couple’s suburban New York home in 1982.
The original investigation fizzled, however, because the police could not place Durst in Los Angeles – though they knew he was in California – and because close study of the bullet used in the killing, and of a note written by the killer, could not be definitively linked to him.
Investigators were spurred to reopen the Berman case as a result of new evidence unearthed by the makers of the documentary series, called The Jinx. Durst, who has a history of taking risks and believing he is in some way untouchable, did not help himself by consenting to sit for 25 hours of interviews for the series, against the advice of at least two teams of lawyers.
Note; The Jinx is on of the most enthralling documentaries we have ever seen. - TPR
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