New Orleans - Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, was denied bail on Monday after a judge deemed him to be a potential danger to others and a likely flight risk.
Durst, recently featured in the HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” must remain in Louisiana on local weapons charges at least until his next court date on April 2, Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell ruled.
“There is a substantial risk the defendant might flee,” the judge said.
Durst's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, did not seek bail at the hearing, but argued his client's recent arrest and the search of his hotel room in New Orleans were improper.
Durst's attorneys are seeking to expedite his extradition to Los Angeles County, where he has been charged with the 2000 murder of longtime friend Susan Berman, and have challenged the basis for his arrest on a Los Angeles County murder warrant earlier this month in New Orleans.
The final installment of the HBO documentary this month broadcast evidence that Durst's handwriting appeared to match that of Berman's likely killer.
Durst's voice was then captured on a microphone saying to himself that he had “killed them all.”
Long a suspect in the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen Durst, in New York, Durst was acquitted in the killing of a male neighbor in Texas in 2003.
Reuters