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Key events in life of wealthy eccentric Robert Durst

Posted March 15, 2015 11:00 pm

The Associated Press

This booking photo provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office shows Robert Durst, after his Saturday, March 14, 2015 arrest in New Orleans on an extradition warrant to Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office) The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A timeline of key events in the life of Robert Durst, a member of a wealthy New York real estate family who was arrested in New Orleans on a murder warrant in his friend Susan Berman's 2000 death.

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1982

Durst's wife, Kathleen, disappears. Durst has never been charged in the disappearance.

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2000

The Westchester County New York district attorney reopens the investigation into the disappearance.

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December 2000

Susan Berman, 55, a writer and friend who acted as Durst's spokeswoman after his wife disappeared, is shot once in the back of her head at her Los Angeles home shortly before investigators wanted to interview her about Kathleen Durst's disappearance.

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October 2001

Durst, who had been disguising himself as a mute woman at one point, is arrested in Galveston, Texas, on murder charges in the death of a 71-year-old neighbor who was dismembered.

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November 2003

Durst is acquitted in the 2001 dismemberment death of Morris Black after claiming he killed the man in self-defense.

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2010

A Hollywood version of Durst's story, "All Good Things," starring Ryan Gosling, is released.

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December 2014

Durst pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief for exposing himself and urinating on candy at CVS drug store in Houston.

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Feb. 8, 2015

HBO airs the first episode of a six-week documentary, "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst." Durst gives an extensive interview for the show.

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March 14

Durst is arrested at a J.W. Marriott hotel in New Orleans.

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March 15

Durst is ordered held without bond on the same day the documentary finale airs. In it, Durst wears his microphone into a bathroom and is heard saying: "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course."

His attorney later says nothing Durst revealed in the documentary changes his innocence.

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March 16

Durst appears in court in New Orleans and agrees to face a murder charge in Los Angeles. One of his lawyers says the trip might be delayed by new charges in Louisiana.

Robert Durst, far right, photographed through fencing, is escorted into Orleans Parish Criminal District Court through a tunnel entrance, in New Orleans, Monday, March 16, 2015. Durst waived extradition Monday and will return to Los Angeles to face a murder charge in the 15-year-old death of a writer and friend who acted as his spokeswoman. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) The Associated Press

Robert Durst is escorted from Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, Monday, March 16, 2015, in New Orleans. Durst, a millionaire from one of America's wealthiest families, agreed Monday to return to Los Angeles to face a 15-year-old murder charge after muttering that he "killed them all" in a documentary about his links to three sensational killings. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) The Associated Press

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