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« on: March 16, 2015, 08:29:39 AM »

Robert Durst Arrested in New Orleans on an Extradition Warrant out of Los Angeles, CA For the 2000 Murder of Susan Berman

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2015/03/15/robert-durst-arrested-in-new-orleans-on-an-extradition-warrant-out-of-los-angeles-ca-for-the-2000-murder-of-susan-berman/

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Robert Durst has been arrested in New Orleans, Louisiana on an extradition warrant out if Los Angeles, California for the 2000 murder if Susan Berman. Durst was arrested on Canal Street by FBI agents just before 11:00pm Saturday at a J.W. Marriott hotel in New Orleans.  The 71 year old Robert Durst was never charged in connection with the unsolved 2000 murder of Berman in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Berman was killed as New York authorities prepared to question her in the 1982 disappearance of Durst’s wife, Kathie. Robert Durst has recently been the subject of the HBO true-crime series “The Jinx” about his suspected involvement in three murders. Durst was also tried for the fall 2001 murder of neighbor Morris Black, who was found dismembered in a Galveston, Texas, bay. He was acquitted in 2003 via a self-defense claim.
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« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2015, 08:31:01 AM »

HBO Series, "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst"

http://www.hbo.com/the-jinx-the-life-and-deaths-of-robert-durst#/


This dude looks like Scott Peterson and Drew Peterson all rolled up in to one. Hopefully the families will finally get justice.
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« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2015, 08:35:39 AM »

Does this letter implicate Robert Durst in neighbor's murder? Handwriting and misspelling on anonymous note about body VERY similar to letter billionaire sent to friend

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2988014/Does-letter-implicate-Robert-Durst-neighbor-s-murder-Handwriting-misspelling-anonymous-note-body-similar-letter-billionaire-sent-friend.html

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Police have long suspected that Durst was the author of an anonymous note sent to the Beverly Hills Police Department alerting them to a body at Susan Berman's home, reports AOL.

The note read 'BEVERLEY HILLS POLICE - 1527 BENEDICT CANYON CADAVER' - it has distinctive block capital lettering and the word Beverly Hills is misspelled.

Now a documentary producer has been shown a letter Durst wrote in 1999 to Berman.




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« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2015, 08:41:18 AM »

If you didn't see the HBO series, watch the finale - he admits killing them when he still had his microphone on and didn't know it.  He's nuts but crazy like a fox.
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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2015, 08:56:10 AM »

If you didn't see the HBO series, watch the finale - he admits killing them when he still had his microphone on and didn't know it.  He's nuts but crazy like a fox.


Yes He is. Hopefully he will get his and was too arrogant for his own self as his attorneys begged him not to do this show. But like others now in prison, they thought they were bullet-proof.

This is what Klaas was referring to if you dont watch the series ...

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."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/16/durst-hbo-murder-hearing/24837005/
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« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2015, 08:58:15 AM »

REOPENED MYSTERY: A special report.; A Woman's Disappearance Is Still Baffling After 19 Years

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Kathleen Durst, the wife of a wealthy Manhattan real estate executive, had been missing for 16 years, and her disappearance had already moved from headline news to history, when an unlikely turn of events in 1998 revived interest in her case.

It began with the arrest of a Connecticut man in a series of lewd acts in northern Westchester County. Several women and a girl of 14 had been accosted by a man who exposed himself in a car as they jogged, walked or rode horseback along isolated back roads.

The suspect was remorseful, according to court records. Later, in a bid for leniency, he said he had information that might help solve one of New York's enduring mysteries.

 

 
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Mr. Durst told the police that he last saw his wife on a Sunday night boarding a train in Westchester, bound for their penthouse apartment in Manhattan. They had spent the weekend at their cottage in South Salem, he said, but his wife had headed back to the city, where medical school appointments awaited.

Mrs. Durst never made those appointments, and the mystery of the medical student with a gleaming smile who either abandoned or was denied a life of wealth and accomplishment captivated New York. Headlines trumpeted developments. Friends tried to retrace her steps. The police found three witnesses who said they thought they had seen or heard from Mrs. Durst in the 24 hours after she boarded the train.

But leads dwindled. Detectives retired. And though a photograph of Mrs. Durst remained on file with the New York Police Department Missing Persons Squad, the case languished.

Until Timothy Martin appeared.

After his arrest in the series of lewd acts, he told investigators a tale he said he had heard from others. Mrs. Durst, he said, never made it to Manhattan, according to people with direct knowledge of the investigation. She had been murdered, he said, and buried in Westchester.

Much of Mr. Martin's story did not check out. But the state police investigator who interviewed him, Joseph C. Becerra, and the Westchester district attorney, Jeanine F. Pirro, nonetheless decided that his story warranted a review of the Durst case.
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2015, 06:45:16 PM »

Don't miss the Dana Pretzer show at 9PM ET tonight!



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http://scaredmonkeysradio.com/radio.m3u
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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2019, 09:42:27 AM »

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9178349-181/robert-durst-murder-trial-set

Robert Durst murder trial set for September in Los Angeles POSTED on January 16, 2019

LOS ANGELES — New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been scheduled to go on trial in late summer on charges of killing a friend in Los Angeles nearly two decades ago.

A judge on Tuesday scheduled the trial to begin on Sept. 3, the Los Angeles Times reported .

"Sept. 3 is fine for trial," Durst told the judge.

Durst is charged with killing his best friend Susan Berman in 2000 to keep her from telling authorities what she knew about the disappearance of Durst's wife in 1982.

Durst, 75, has pleaded not guilty to killing Berman and has publicly denied any involvement in the disappearance of Kathleen Durst. She is presumed dead.

 

Prosecutors will try to make the connection between Berman's death and the mystery around Kathleen Durst's disappearance, which they want to show as the foundation for the motive for Berman's slaying.

In his ruling that prosecutors could use evidence from the Texas case, the judge said the killings of Black and Berman seemed "to be intertwined."

The murder charge against Durst includes the special circumstance allegations of lying in wait and killing a witness to a crime.

There is also an allegation that he personally used a handgun to carry out the murder.
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« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2019, 07:25:37 AM »

Robert Durst Loses a Round as Murder Trial Approaches
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LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by defense attorneys for accused murderer Robert Durst to strip the producers of an Emmy-winning documentary series about Durst’s alleged crimes of protection under California’s journalist shield law by having them declared “government agents.”

Had his attorneys succeeded, they presumably could have forced the filmmakers to turn over raw footage, documents and other material they gathered while making the six-part HBO series “Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”

Ruling on what he said was an issue of first impression, Superior Court Judge Mark E. Windham found that Durst’s defense team had not succeeded in showing that the filmmakers and their production company, Hit The Ground Running, became so entangled with Los Angeles law enforcement while investigating the case that they should be treated as government agents.

The issue was one of several to go against Durst during the daylong hearing in Windham’s court, including a defense motion to kick the chief prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney John Lewin, off the case for being so deeply involved in the years-long investigation that he might have to be called as a witness.

Durst is to go to trial in January for the execution-style murder of his best friend, Los Angeles writer Susan Berman. Lewin and his team believe Durst killed Berman to keep her from giving New York investigators evidence that he had murdered his first wife, Kathie Durst, back in early 1982.

The “Jinx” series delved into both cases, as well as a third in which Durst was acquitted on self-defense grounds of killing a neighbor in Galveston, Texas. He did serve time for dismembering the body and dumping it in the bay.

Durst was arrested in connection with Berman’s death on July 15, 2015 — just one day after the final episode of “The Jinx” aired on HBO. At the end of that final episode, Durst is heard muttering to himself on an accidentally open microphone that he had “killed them all, of course.”

The filmmakers — Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier — started developing “The Jinx” in early 2011. By August that year, they were talking with Los Angeles police and prosecutors.

In a motion, Durst’s defense team, led by Dick DeGuerin of Houston, argued that the filmmakers and the police “consulted, coordinated and collaborated” so closely that they formed a “symbiotic relationship,” converting the filmmakers into government agents. The producers not only gave the police and prosecutors multiple advance screenings of their work, they even put together a PowerPoint presentation for them — at prosecutors’ suggestion — about why Durst should be charged with Berman’s death, the motion states.

Windham initially said on Tuesday that he did not have the authority to “declare” the filmmakers to be government agents absent the context of a specific discovery dispute. But he relented after Lewin and the filmmakers’ attorney, Victor Kovner of New York, argued that a decision now would save time later in the case.

Windham then said he could rule by treating the motion and Kovner’s response as early discovery motions.

Arguing in Durst’s defense, Chip Lewis of Houston said the question of whether a third party has become a government agent turns on whether the third party is acting with the intent to assist law enforcement. For the filmmakers, several statements from Jarecki and others showed just that, he said.

“It went from being a movie to being more of a mission, the mission being seeing Mr. Durst charged in this case,” Lewis said.

In one crucial example, Jarecki and Smerling came upon evidence tying Durst to an anonymous letter that alerted Beverly Hills police to the location of Susan Berman’s body. Printed in block letters, the note and envelope misspelled Beverly as “Beverley.” The filmmakers found a letter Durst had earlier sent Berman printed in matching block letters and addressed to her in “Beverley Hills.”

Lewis complained that the filmmakers not only gave the letter to police but pointed prosecutors to their handwriting expert.

But Kovner and Lewin countered that all Lewis had shown was that the filmmakers communicated with law enforcement and that they passed on certain information in hopes of getting information in return.

To show that Jarecki and his team were government agents required showing that the police and prosecutors “directed and controlled” the filmmakers, they said.

“Has he come up with any evidence of government control?” Kovner asked. “There isn’t any.”

And, he said, the communication between the filmmakers and police was appropriate. “California policy is to encourage people to talk to law enforcement when they have any evidence of criminal activity,” Kovner said. That policy includes journalists, he added.

Lewin said the defense simply “wants a chance to go fishing” for information in Hit The Ground Running’s files.

Windham said that even though the question of an alleged government agent’s privilege as a journalist was a new one, he could use the reasoning and standards laid out in cases dealing with whether alleged agents violated suspects’ constitutional rights. Under those standards, he ruled, the defense motion failed.

In another portion of the day’s hearing, a second judge, Superior Court Judge Upinder S. Kalra, affirmed Windham’s decision after a preliminary hearing to bind Durst over for trial on the murder charge and on allegations of special circumstances for lying in wait and killing a witness.

The prosecution is not planning to seek the death penalty against Durst, who is 76 years old and frail from cancer and other health problems.

Lewin set another hearing on discovery and other matters for Oct. 28.
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