"From TV straight to jail"
March 16, 2015 4:10 AM   Subscribe

NYC real estate heir Robert A. Durst, subject of an HBO documentary series, has been charged with first-degree murder.

Robert A. Durst (photo), whose wife in New York City disappeared in 1982 and who killed and dismembered a neighbor in Texas, has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a friend in Los Angeles. He apparently admitted unwittingly on tape to three killings. NBC reports that "a microphone he was wearing while being interviewed [for the series] was live while he went to the bathroom. It recorded him whispering to himself: 'What a disaster. ... I'm having difficulty with the question. What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.' "

The arrest and arraignment of Durst, a millionaire cross-dressing drifter who was once caught in Pennsylvania, where police said he shoplifted a chicken sandwich and a Band-Aid, took place (conveniently and questionably) on the eve of final episode of the HBO series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (previously).

You can't make this stuff up.

(I wish I had written that Times headline.)
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