Robert Durst (Photo : Reuters)
Robert Durst, an heir of a real estate family in New York, was arrested by the authorities in a hotel at New Orleans on Saturday.
Durst is known from the "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,"a documentary from HBO.
The Los Angeles Police Department said that Durst is being charged for a first-degree murder of the 71-year-old's confidant, writer and publicist Susan Berman. Her body was found at her home with a gunshot wound at the back of her temple in Los Angeles on Dec. 24, 2000.
In the documentary series from HBO, which will end on Sunday night, Durst explains and discusses the Susan Berman case, according to USA Today.
The LAPD said that new evidence and investigative leads in 2014 has led to the force determining that Durst was responsible for the crime of killing Berman.
Durst was implicated in not only the Berman murder, but for other cases as well such as the disappearance of Kathleen McCormack, his first wife, who he married when she was just an 18-year-old.
The police suspected Durst of being responsible for the disappearance, but he said that he dropped her wife off at a train station not far from their Westchester County home.
Durst, who is also a cross-dresser, was also acquitted for a murder of a man at Texas in 2001.
Similar to the "Dexter" television series, Durst admitted that he chopped the victim's body in pieces and wrapped it in plastic before throwing the pieces in the waters of the Galveston Bay, according to NBC News.
Durst, who is an heir of the real estate Durst Organization, will be extradited from Louisiana. Chip Lewis, his lawyer, said that his client will not be fighting the extradition, but will legally fight the charges against him.
"It's not going to bring Kathie back. He may never be arrested for that case. But he will remain behind bars, where he belongs. It's finally come full circle," said Attorney Ellen Strauss, who is a college friend of Kathleen.
