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Real estate heir Robert Durst appears in a criminal courtroom for his trial on charges of trespassing on property owned by his estranged family, in New York December 10, 2014.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The arrest of Robert Durst, a wealthy eccentric linked to two killings and his wife’s disappearance, came just before the finale in an HBO show called “The Jinx” about his life in which he said he “killed them all.”
In the finale that aired Sunday evening on HBO, Durst was asked about similarities in handwriting in a letter he wrote and another linked to one of the killings. Later, filmmakers said Durst wore his microphone into the bathroom.
What followed was a bizarre rambling in which Durst said, apparently to himself, “There it is. You’re caught” and “What the hell did I do? Killed them all of course.”
The show ended, and it wasn’t clear whether producers confronted Durst about the secretly recorded words, or what Durst meant by them.
Durst was arrested by FBI agents Saturday at a New Orleans hotel, on a warrant from Los Angeles for the murder of Susan Berman 15 years ago.
Los Angeles prosecutors reopened the case into the Berman murder after Durst agreed to interviews with the filmmakers behind “The Jinx.”
In recent weeks, prosecutors in Los Angeles, Westchester, New York, and the FBI have been questioning witnesses in the death of Berman and the 1982 disappearance of Kathleen McCormack, according to the New York Post.
The climatic scene in “The Jinx” was brought about after the filmmakers obtained a letter written by Durst to Berman. They then compared the handwriting in that letter to an anonymous note sent to the Beverly Hills police on the day Berman was shot, announcing the presence of a “cadaver” in Berman’s home.
The forensic document examiner brought on by the filmmakers concluded that the letter could have only been written by Durst. Both letters contain a misspelling of Beverly Hills as “Beverley.”
After the interview, Durst went to the bathroom with his mic still attached, muttering his now infamous admission. It wasn’t until two years later that the filmmakers discovered Durst’s audio from the bathroom.
The filmmakers have been speaking with prosecutors in Los Angeles since 2013. Nonetheless, it is unclear if Durst’s recorded comments in the bathroom will be admissable in court.
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