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US tycoon murder suspect Durst says he 'killed them all' | |
(about 11 hours later) | |
US tycoon Robert Durst has been arrested on a murder charge just before the finale of a TV show investigating the alleged crime. | |
He was detained in New Orleans after a warrant was issued by Los Angeles police investigating the murder of mobster's daughter Susan Berman. | |
Mr Durst has always maintained his innocence in the murder in 2000. | |
But HBO's The Jinx catches him on tape apparently confessing to three killings, saying "[I] killed them all". | |
The show suggested in a previous episode that Mr Durst had written a letter only Ms Berman's killer could have sent. | |
It sought to match handwriting on a letter from Mr Durst to Ms Berman with that on an anonymous letter sent to police alerting them to a dead body in the victim's home. | |
Mr Durst's lawyer, Chip Lewis, said his client would not challenge his transfer to Los Angeles and would continue to maintain his innocence. | |
But the tycoon's estranged family thanked the authorities. | |
"We are relieved and also grateful to everyone who assisted in the arrest of Robert Durst," said his brother, real estate developer Douglas Durst, in a statement quoted by the Associated Press news agency. | |
"We hope he will finally be held accountable." | |
'You're caught' | |
The 71-year-old had been previously questioned by police investigating Ms Berman's execution-style killing. | |
The show also investigated two other unsolved murder cases linked to the tycoon | |
Ms Berman, whose father David Berman was an associate of Las Vegas mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, was killed with a bullet to the back of her head in her home, just as investigators prepared to question her about Kathleen's disappearance. | |
In the TV programme which aired on Sunday, Mr Durst is challenged about the letter evidence in a long interview. | |
According to filmmakers, he was still wearing his microphone when he went into a hotel bathroom after the interview at a hotel, and he apparently spoke out loud to himself. | |
He can be heard saying "There it is, you're caught" and "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course". |