Real Estate Heir Robert Durst Arraigned On Murder Charges In Los Angeles
Homicidal millionaire
Robert Durst was seemingly caught confessing to more murders while filming a documentary — but now he's insisting that he was just high on meth! The cross-dressing killer's bizarre defense is the latest weird twist after Durst was caught muttering to himself while filming HBO’s “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.” The controversial killer landed back in court after he wore a microphone to a bathroom during taping, allowing the filmmakers to catch him saying to himself: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”
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Robert Durst Arrested in New Orleans
Durst
was seemingly referring to the unsolved case of his first wife
Kathleen Durst — last seen in Connecticut in 1982 — and his longtime friend Susan Berman, who'd provided him with an alibi during the police investigation into Kathleen's disappearance.
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Private detectives with Blue Moon Investigations comb a port
That was all before the millionaire real-estate magnate ran off to Galveston, Texas, where he hid out while dressing as a woman, and eventually killed and dismembered local man Morris Black. He spent three years in prison for that crime. (The head of Morris [inset] was never recovered.)
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Durst embraced the notoriety that came from his constantly evading justice, and agreed to make the documentary where the camera caught him making his bizarre "confession." Prosecutors in California jumped on the chance to put Durst on trial for the murder of Susan Berman — but now he's blaming his words on drug abuse!
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"I was on meth the whole time," he told investigators during a March 15, 2015, interview — adding: "It should have been obvious. I think the reason I did it had to be because I was swooped, speeding.” (He's seen here on trial in L.A., where he's been wearing a neck brace and arriving to court in a wheelchair.)
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As covered by
The National ENQUIRER, cops moved quickly when they learned about
the bombshell statement captured on the microphone. Authorities originally arrested Durst in a New Orleans hotel on March 14, 2015 — just hours before the final segment of "Jinx" aired on HBO.
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He was found in possession of a latex mask, a firearm, and $40,000 in cash. Despite the innovative meth defense, Durst is already facing a sentence of more than seven years just for being in possession of a firearm. He's pleading "not guilty" after being arrested on a first-degree murder warrant for the death of Susan Berman.
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