How an HBO series led to the arrest of Robert Durst — Transcript

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1. 0:00Now to a very different crime story that
2. 0:02has suddenly burst back into the
3. 0:04headlines. At the center of it is an
4. 0:06eccentric member of a prominent real
5. 0:08estate family. A man linked to three
6. 0:10murders. Filmmakers may have
7. 0:13accomplished what the police could not
8. 0:15do. Come up with the evidence to convict
9. 0:17him. Here's 48 hours correspondent Aaron
10. 0:20Morardi.
11. 0:22It all began in 1982 when 29-year-old
12. 0:25Kathleen Durst disappeared from her home
13. 0:27in New York. 18 years later, Susan
14. 0:30Burman was found shot dead in her home
15. 0:32in Los Angeles. The following year, the
16. 0:35body of Morris Black was found in the
17. 0:36Galveastston Bay, dismembered and in
18. 0:38plastic bags. All three victims have one
19. 0:41connection, a man named Robert Durst,
20. 0:44the son of a powerful New York real
21. 0:46estate mogul. Durst is the main suspect,
22. 0:49but has never been charged in either the
23. 0:51disappearance of his wife Kathleen or
24. 0:53the execution style murder of close
25. 0:56friend Susan Berman. He was eventually
26. 0:58charged with a murder and dismemberment
27. 1:00of his neighbor Morris Black. Is it well
28. 1:02planned and calculated? You bet it is.
29. 1:04But told the jury it was self-defense.
30. 1:07They believed him. We the jury find the
31. 1:09defendant Robert Durst not guilty. Then
32. 1:13in early 2011, Durst decided to tell his
33. 1:16life story to filmmaker Andrew Jerki.
34. 1:18Jerky's six-part documentary The Jinx
35. 1:21has been airing on HBO. In the series
36. 1:24finale, which aired last night, the
37. 1:26filmmaker confronted Durst with evidence
38. 1:28that Durst may have been Susan Berman's
39. 1:30killer. A letter Durst wrote to Susan
40. 1:32Berman that seemed to match the
41. 1:34handwriting on an anonymous letter
42. 1:36telling police where to find her body. I
43. 1:39mean, the writing looks similar and the
44. 1:41spelling is is the same, so I can see
45. 1:43the conclusion the cops were draw. When
46. 1:46the interview was over, a shaken Durst
47. 1:48went to the bathroom, still wearing his
48. 1:50microphone and could be heard muttering
49. 1:52to himself about the interview. What the
50. 1:54hell are you doing?
51. 1:57Kill the whole course.
52. 2:00On Saturday, the day before the country
53. 2:03heard his admissions on television,
54. 2:05authorities arrested Robert Durst in New
55. 2:07Orleans and charged him with the murder
56. 2:09of Susan Berman. Today, Durst's attorney
57. 2:12said he's innocent and vowed to fight
58. 2:14the charges. Bob Durst didn't kill Susan
59. 2:17Burman. He's ready to end all the rumor
60. 2:20and speculation and have a trial.
61. 2:23So Erin, if the tape is what the
62. 2:26producers say that it is, would any of
63. 2:28this be admissible in court? Well,
64. 2:29defense attorneys told me that if this
65. 2:31goes to trial, they will fight to keep
66. 2:33those statements out. And of course,
67. 2:35they're going to do what you just said.
68. 2:36They're likely to raise questions about
69. 2:38the recording itself. Is it what
70. 2:40producers say it is? And then microphone
71. 2:43or not, did Robert Durst have an
72. 2:45expectation of privacy when he went to
73. 2:46the restroom? Erin Morardi, 48 hours.