Full Coverage: Robert Durst case

A day after a longtime friend of Robert Durst testified that the multimillionaire confessed to a years-old Los Angeles murder, Durst’s legal team played a recording that could haunt one of the prosecution’s key witnesses if the case goes to trial.

The dinner topic was an unpleasant one.

It was finally time for the secret witness.

At a court hearing Tuesday, a retired New York City doctor testified about a phone call he received in 1982, a short conversation that could play a key role in the murder case against real estate scion Robert Durst.

“Did you tell Tim Wilson that you, quote, ‘kill a lot’?” the lawyer asked.

A Los Angeles County judge on Friday cleared the way for prosecutors to begin calling witnesses next month in their murder case against New York real estate heir Robert Durst, saying that the identity of one witness would remain confidential for several more weeks because of concerns over his safety.

Los Angeles prosecutors and attorneys for New York real estate scion Robert Durst clashed in court on Wednesday over evidence, witnesses and the legality of a prosecutor’s jailhouse interrogation of the idiosyncratic millionaire.

For years, Robert Durst has slipped in and out of law enforcement’s crosshairs.

Robert Durst, the eccentric heir to a real estate fortune, told Los Angeles prosecutors last year that he was high on methamphetamines during interviews he gave for the 2015 HBO miniseries “The Jinx,” according to court papers released Friday.

New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been assigned to an Indiana federal prison, frustrating his defense attorney, who said Sunday that he wants Durst sent to Los Angeles to face a murder charge in the death of his friend Susan Berman.

Robert Durst is asking a federal judge to recommend a Los Angeles-area prison when he’s sentenced on the weapons charge that’s kept him in Louisiana pending his trial on a California murder charge.

New York real estate heir Robert Durst will return to Los Angeles by next summer to face a murder charge in connection with the death of his writer friend Susan Berman, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Relatives of embattled New York real estate scion Robert Durst’s missing first wife filed a $100-million lawsuit against him Monday in New York, arguing he violated their right to bury her.

Jailed millionaire Robert Durst is about to re-enter the spotlight.

Surveillance video appears to show Robert Durst urinating openly in a Houston pharmacy last year, just months before he was arrested in the slaying of Susan Berman.

Louisiana authorities dismissed weapons charges against real estate heir Robert Durst -- who faces a murder charge in Los Angeles -- on Thursday as federal authorities moved forward with their case against him.

Robert Durst was formally charged Friday by a federal grand jury in New Orleans with illegally possessing a handgun.

Robert Durst pleaded not guilty Thursday to two state gun charges in Louisiana in a case that would delay his extradition to California to face murder charges.

In a scrawling, handwritten letter to The Times, murder suspect Robert Durst doesn’t speak of the serious charges he now faces but instead writes wistfully of his days in Los Angeles.

The scrawny figure shuffled into court last week, shackled and limping.

Robert Durst briefly appeared in a New Orleans courtroom Tuesday, but a judge continued the question of his extradition to Los Angeles, where he faces a murder charge, to Thursday.

In the latest legal wrangling over Los Angeles murder suspect and New York real estate scion Robert Durst, his attorneys on Tuesday challenged his recent New Orleans arrest and underlying search warrants as unconstitutional.

Linda Walker Zevallos of Dallas was once courted by real estate heir Robert Durst, and after appearing on NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday she spoke with the Los Angeles Times about Durst -- who is now charged with murdering Beverly Hills author and friend Susan Berman in December 2000 -- and a letter Durst sent Zevallos that she later turned over to Beverly Hills police.

Police in Vermont said Tuesday that a college student who vanished in 1971 was last seen inside a Middlebury health food store owned by millionaire murder suspect Robert Durst.

Robert Durst had sought refuge in Houston to get away from the media mob.

Authorities in Vermont are examining whether there is a connection between murder suspect Robert Durst and the disappearance of a Middlebury College student four decades ago when he operated a health food store there.

A New Orleans judge ordered New York real estate scion Robert Durst held without bail Monday because he is a flight risk and danger to the community.

Former Galveston County District Court Judge Susan Criss presided over Robert Durst’s murder trial in Texas in 2003, where he was acquitted in the 2001 killing of neighbor Morris Black, whose body parts were found wrapped in garbage bags and dumped in Galveston Bay.

Legendary Texas litigator Dick DeGuerin sounds like Matlock and dresses like J.R. Ewing.

FBI agents and members of an informal task force are investigating whether Robert Durst may be responsible for other unsolved slayings in the various locales where he resided, according to a law enforcement source.

Robert Durst was told to write.

Robert Durst was told to write.

The nation buzzed about the Sunday finale of the HBO documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” as if it was the shocking twist of a Shonda Rhimes drama series or a marriage proposal gone wrong on “The Bachelor.”

Prosecutors in Ventura County once used a woman’s distinctive signature — with its angular J and a D with a flowing tail — to help put her behind bars for the murder of her lover’s wife.

Accused killer Robert Durst, the eccentric real estate heir who was the subject of the HBO documentary “The Jinx,” was scheduled to be relocated Tuesday night to a mental health facility at a Louisiana state prison because of an acute medical condition, authorities said.

With its shocking killings, stylized reenactments and real-world consequences, “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” comes in a long line of true-crime documentaries that began more than a quarter-century ago with Errol Morris’ “The Thin Blue Line.”

If there is a smoking gun in the Robert Durst murder case, some would argue it’s the now infamous letters in which Beverly Hills is misspelled as “Beverley Hills.”

When the makers of the HBO documentary “The Jinx” discovered an old letter that appeared to link New York real estate scion Robert Durst to a Los Angeles killing, their first instinct was to keep it from authorities.

For many viewers, Sunday’s finale of “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” finally settled any lingering questions about the guilt of its subject, wayward real estate heir and suspected killer Robert Durst.

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki has followed an unlikely path to documentary fame.

It was a few days before Christmas in 2000 when Rich Markey met his longtime friend Susan Berman for dinner and a movie at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.

When she was killed 15 years ago, Susan Berman was a 55-year-old writer struggling to stay relevant.

When Los Angeles writer Susan Berman, a friend of eccentric real estate scion Robert Durst, was shot execution style in her Benedict Canyon home in 2000, the questions, at first, centered on her past.

On Sept. 30, 2001, a 13-year-old boy fishing in Galveston Bay in Texas spotted something terrible out in the water.

The arrest of Robert Durst in connection with the 2000 murder of a former friend, Susan Berman, is shining a light into the private financial world of a family dynasty that is one of New York’s elite.

The bathroom mutterings of Robert Durst, seemingly admitting to killings, would likely be admitted in court if the New York real estate heir were to stand trial on a murder charge in Los Angeles, according to criminal law experts.

Hours after Los Angeles County prosecutors filed a murder charge against real estate scion Robert Durst in the December 2000 killing of his longtime friend Susan Berman, who was found shot execution-style in her Benedict Canyon home on Christmas Eve, Louisiana officials rebooked him on new weapons charges.

Sunday’s finale of the HBO documentary series “The Jinx,” arrived just a day after its subject, Robert Durst, was arrested for the 2000 killing of writer Susan Berman and ended with what appears to be a jaw-dropping quasi-confession.

A top Los Angeles Police Department official said revelations about Robert Durst on an HBO series did not play a role in the decision to arrest him in connection with the slaying of L.A. writer Susan Berman in 2000.

“What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”

A six-part HBO documentary series about New York real estate scion Robert Durst’s links to three killings concluded in dramatic fashion Sunday with Durst being caught on microphone muttering to himself,” Killed them all, of course.”

Robert Durst said he did it: “Killed them all, of course.” But he didn’t tell the police.

How do you prosecute a cold-case murder when key evidence comes from a major cable television network?

HBO issued its first comment Sunday after the arrest this weekend of the man at the center of the series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”

Suspicion has shadowed Robert Durst at every odd, bloody turn.

Police have been wanting to talk to Robert Durst about the slaying of Los Angeles writer Susan Berman for 15 years.

Though many may be meeting the figure of Robert Durst for the first time through the HBO documentary miniseries “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” some may have a passing familiarity with his story via the 2010 feature film “All Good Things.”

The Los Angeles County district attorney has reportedly reopened an investigation into the slaying of Susan Berman.

In 2000, crime author Susan Berman was found fatally shot in her Benedict Canyon home in Los Angeles.

You might call Andrew Jarecki an expert in family dysfunction.

They say you can tell a lot from a person’s handshake.

New York state police, after recently reopening a 19-year-old investigation into the disappearance of the wife of a prominent East Coast developer, were attempting to arrange an interview with author Susan Berman just before she was found shot to death in her Benedict Canyon home late last month.