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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A wealthy eccentric linked to two killings and his wife's disappearance has been arrested, just before the finale of a six-part HBO documentary about him.
The FBI says Robert Durst was arrested by FBI agents yesterday in New Orleans on a Los Angeles warrant for the murder of Susan Berman 15 years ago. She was killed as cold-case detectives prepared to question her in the 1982 disappearance of Durst's wife, Kathie.
Durst moved to Texas after Berman's death, where he lived as a woman before being acquitted in the 2001 dismemberment death of his Galveston neighbor, Morris Black. Durst said that killing was in self-defense.
Attorney Chip Lewis, who defended Durst in the Galveston case, says Durst will appear in court in New Orleans this afternoon and waive extradition to Los Angeles.
Durst, whose father made billions in New York real estate, has always denied involvement in his wife's disappearance or Berman's murder.
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