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[h=4]Durst will return to L.A. to face murder charge[/h]Eccentric real-estate heir Robert Durst faced an extradition hearing on a murder charge Monday, hours after an HBO documentary was aired in which he mumbled "What did I do? Kill them all, of course." Durst,
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Robert Durst will return to Los Angeles to face a first-degree murder charge after a ruling from a New Orleans judge. Durst, 71, is accused of shooting writer and confidant Susan Berman, whose body was found in her L.A. home on Christmas Eve 2000. VPC
New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom on Aug. 15, 2014.(Photo: Pat Sullivan, AP)
A New Orleans judge on Monday ordered real-estate heir and controversial HBO documentary subject Robert Durst immediately returned to Los Angeles to face a murder charge.
Durst, 71, is accused of fatally shooting writer and Durst confidant Susan Berman, whose body was found in her West Los Angeles home on Christmas Eve 2000.
Durst, arrested in a New Orleans hotel lobby Saturday night, was the focal point of the six-part HBO documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. The final episode that aired Sunday evening wrapped up with a clip from more than two years ago in which Durst is heard in a bathroom mumbling to himself "What the hell did I do? Killed them all of course."
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Real estate heir Robert Durst was arrested in New Orleans on a first-degree murder warrant. On Sunday night, the final episode of a six-part HBO documentary featuring him aired. VPC
Durst waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday. His lawyer, Chip Lewis, said Durst will fight the charges, telling Fox News he was "underwhelmed" by the HBO series.
Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki told Good Morning America on Monday that his team didn't notice Durst's bathroom ramblings for two years because the recording had no video and "you're making a film."
"It took a while to really understand the impact of it," Jarecki said. "It was so chilling to hear it."
The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement that "additional evidence that has come to light in the past year" resulted in Durst being charged.
Durst has been at odds with his own family for years. Durst's brother Douglas, president of the family's multibillion dollar real estate conglomerate Durst Organization, expressed "relief" at the arrest.
"We hope he will finally be held accountable for all he has done," Douglas Durst said.
In 1982, Robert Durst was the only named suspect in the disappearance of his first wife, medical student Kathleen McCormack, who vanished after Durst maintained he dropped her off at a train station near their home north of New York City in Westchester County.
Eighteen years later, investigators looking into the McCormack disappearance contacted Berman. She was later found murdered with a gunshot wound to the back of her head. No one had been charged in her death until now.
Last week's HBO episode hinted that Los Angeles detectives were closing in on Durst, showing an apparent match between a Dec. 23, 2000, anonymous letter alerting police to a body at Berman's address and the handwriting on a letter Durst sent Berman the previous year. Both letters misspelled Beverly Hills as "Beverley."
Months after Berman's death, Durst was arrested in the death of a Texas neighbor, Morris Black. Durst admitted cutting up Black's body and dumping the remains in Galveston Bay. Aided by a trio of famed Houston defense lawyers, Durst won an acquittal based on self-defense.
In New York, state police investigator Joseph Becerra said he hoped the Los Angeles case could lead to a resolution in the McCormack case.
"We're going to monitor the Los Angeles case closely, and hopefully it will lead to some resolution of our case," Becerra said Sunday.
Contributing: William M. Welch in Los Angeles; Jonathan Bandler, The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News
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