NEW YORK: An eccentric US tycoon linked to two murders was arrested in connection with a third, just a day before the airing of a television documentary in which he said that he "killed them all."
Robert Durst, the scion of a wealthy New York real estate family, was taken into custody on Saturday at a New Orleans hotel at the
By AFP
March 16, 2015
NEW YORK: An eccentric US tycoon linked to two murders was arrested in connection with a third, just a day before the airing of a television documentary in which he said that he "killed them all."
Robert Durst, the scion of a wealthy New York real estate family, was taken into custody on Saturday at a New Orleans hotel at the request of Los Angeles police investigating the 2000 killing of his friend Susan Berman, and was being held on a murder warrant, US media reports said.
The next day the HBO television network broadcast the final episode in a six-part documentary series about Durst called "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst."
In it, Durst, 71, is heard muttering to himself, "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course," apparently unaware that a wireless microphone remained switched on while he used the bathroom.
It was a sensational development in Durst´s case, which has been widely followed in the United States.
Durst was wanted over the 2000 unsolved killing of Berman, a daughter of a Los Vegas mobster who was shot dead execution-style in the back of the head in Los Angeles a day before police were to question her over the disappearance of Durst´s wife.
Andrew Jarecki, director of the HBO series, told ABC television on Monday that he and his film crew were unaware of the apparent audiotape confession until discovering it while reviewing hours of recordings some three years after the fact.
