Robert Durst, a New York real estate heir agreed to return to Los Angeles to face charges against him.
Prosecutors announced, according to ABC News, that the charges he will be facing is that he killed his friend and onetime spokeswoman, Susan Berman, 55, in order to stop her from cooperating with the investigation of the disappearance of his wife, Kathleen “Kathie” MacCormack Durst in 1982. Berman is Durst’s friend who had facilitated Durst's public alibi after his wife's disappearance and had recently received $50,000 from her friend, Durst.
Durst’s attorneys have already filed an agreement that he will be extradited from Louisiana to Los Angeles before not later than August 18. He has a weapons charge in New Orleans and was kept in jail in Louisiana since March.
"Bob Durst didn't kill Susan Berman and doesn't know who did," Richard DeGuerin, one of Durst's attorneys, said. "He is eager to go to trial and prove his innocence."
In order to face charges in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan in Louisiana postponed his trial regarding the weapons charge earlier this month.
Robert Alan Durst is an American real estate heir. He is the son of New York City mogul Seymour Durst and brother of commercial developer Douglas Durst. He attracted media attention in the 1980s when his wife disappeared. In the early 2000s, he was the subject of a multi-state manhunt and acquittal for murder. He was rearrested by FBI Agents who have been investigating him since 2012 at the Canal Street Marriott, New Orleans, Louisiana on March 14, 2015.
If he is found guilty and convicted in California, he will be facing death penalty for "special circumstances of murder of a witness and lying in wait."
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