Robert Durst, Subject of HBO's True-Crime Doc 'The Jinx,' Arrested in New Orleans
By Anita Bennett
Robert Durst, subject of the HBO series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” has been arrested in New Orleans on murder charges, his attorney said Sunday.
The real estate heir was taken into custody on Saturday night, a day before the final episode of the HBO series was set to air, and is being held on a first degree murder warrant out of Los Angeles County.
Durst’s attorney, Chip Lewis, told Houston television station KTRK-TV that his client will not fight extradition to California, although he said Durst does plan to fight the charges in Los Angeles.
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“The Jinx” centers on Durst’s suspected involvement in three murders.
In 1982, Durst’s wife Kathie disappeared in California. Some insiders believed Durst’s friend, Susan Berman, knew about his wife’s disappearance.
But in 2000, Berman was shot to death inside her home.
Durst now faces a reopened investigation in Los Angeles into Berman’s death, in a case that may have been bolstered by the HBO series.
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The show featured a never-before-seen letter discovered by Berman’s stepson Sareb Kaufman. Kaufman said the letter, which he believes Durst sent to Berman a year before her death, carried similarities to an anonymous note sent to police the day Berman died, a letter authorities say only Berman’s killer could have written.
Durst has denied killing Berman, but police have long believed he had a motive, allegedly wanting to silence her about the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen, another alleged crime he has long been suspected of but never been charged.
Durst has said he has no idea what happened to her either.
Durst was also charged in the 2001 killing of a neighbor in Galveston, Texas, but he claimed self-defense and was later acquitted.
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