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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 12:19 PM Mar 2015

Robert Durst Arrested in New Orleans

Source: ABC News

Mar 15, 2015, 10:49 AM ET

Robert Durst, the subject of the HBO series "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," has been arrested in New Orleans.

Durst, 71, was being held on a murder warrant out of Los Angeles, his attorney, Chip Lewis, told ABC station KTRK-TV. He was arrested Saturday, a day before the final episode of the HBO series airs.

Lewis told KTRK that Durst would not fight extradition to Los Angeles. He hoped to get him before a judge in New Orleans by Monday.

The New York real estate scion has made national headlines as a person of interest or suspect in three deaths since 1982. An investigation into the 2000 death of Susan Berman was recently reopened by police in Los Angeles.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/robert-durst-arrested-orleans/story?id=29650536

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Robert Durst Arrested in New Orleans (Original Post) inanna Mar 2015 OP
Good. Cooley Hurd Mar 2015 #1
another example of hiding in plain sight. father founding Mar 2015 #2
Note to self: Do not cooperate with a documentary if you have actually murdered someone... nt winstars Mar 2015 #3
Damn Skippy! nt MrScorpio Mar 2015 #4
Dang shenmue Mar 2015 #5
Excellent news! That entitled bloodsucker has been getting away with it for too long. Tom Ripley Mar 2015 #6
The series has been really facinating Cosmocat Mar 2015 #7
agreed NJCher Mar 2015 #11
A classic villain whose ego led to his downfall. Paladin Mar 2015 #8
Adios, Bob Scairp Mar 2015 #9
Just saw that after the repeat of Bill Maher on Friday Rhiannon12866 Mar 2015 #10
the safest place to be is on the most wanted list. father founding Mar 2015 #12
So his admission sounds like excited utterance to me. Private actor taped his conversation to lonestarnot Mar 2015 #13
 

father founding

(619 posts)
2. another example of hiding in plain sight.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 12:35 PM
Mar 2015

Our telephone conversations and emails are of more interest to the government, no time to look for real criminals.

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
6. Excellent news! That entitled bloodsucker has been getting away with it for too long.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 01:14 PM
Mar 2015

Here's hoping he dies incarcerated.

Cosmocat

(14,573 posts)
7. The series has been really facinating
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 01:21 PM
Mar 2015

I had distant memories of some of this, but it has been interesting getting it all laid out.

This guy is one really, really bizarre guy, first off.

And, to state the obviously, it is amazing what being from a family of means can do to keep you from suffering the consequences of your actions.

NJCher

(35,731 posts)
11. agreed
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 05:42 AM
Mar 2015

I've been fascinated with it, too. First, it's a documentary done extremely well--such as the unusual camera shots, like the one where we see the murder from the vantage point of under the bed.

Another aspect I really liked is how they presented Durst and let him talk. He comes off as so "down to earth," and with a good deal of common sense, especially when talking about bizarre things like why he decided to impersonate a mute woman. Of course she had to be mute! His voice would have given it all away, he exclaims. He says it in such a way that he might as well be talking about why hot chocolate has to be sweetened.

Well, his brother Douglas must be absolutely delighted at this point. The $65 million suit Robert was waging against the family's holdings will obviously be taking back seat to another one that's about to go on.


Cher

Scairp

(2,749 posts)
9. Adios, Bob
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 04:16 PM
Mar 2015

I have been saying to myself every single week since the documentary began, they've got to get him. Well, they finally got him.

 

father founding

(619 posts)
12. the safest place to be is on the most wanted list.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:15 PM
Mar 2015

He should have hid out in Whitey's old house in Santa Monica.

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
13. So his admission sounds like excited utterance to me. Private actor taped his conversation to
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 10:33 PM
Mar 2015

himself.

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