New York real estate heir pleads guilty on weapons charge

On Wednesday morning, NY real estate heir and alleged murderer Robert Durst pleaded guilty to a single gun charge in federal court in New Orleans.

Robert Durst admitted that authorities found a gun in the downtown hotel on March 14, 2015. He was formally arrested early on the day of the broadcast.

The family of Durst’s first wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, who went missing in 1982, filed a 0 million lawsuit against Durst in December, contending that the millionaire “murdered Kathleen”.

Durst is the prime suspect in the murder of his friend Susan Berman, who was killed in 2000.

Durst’s attorney said he will ask the judge to designate a federal prison close to Los Angeles so Durst can be transported there for the murder trial.

The series was about him, the disappearance of his wife, Ms Berman’s death and the death and dismemberment of a neighbour in Texas in 2001.

Robert, the son of NY mogul Seymour Durst, gained infamy after The Jinx aired a year ago. Schulze was last seen shopping at the health food store owned by Durst.

“It was just days before investigators were to fly out to California to talk with her about what she may have known about the disappearance of Kathleen Durst that she was shot execution-style in her living room”, CNN’s Jean Casarez said. Still wearing a microphone as he apparently went to the bathroom, Durst said, “What the hell did I do?”

Durst is expected to be jailed before August this year. If the judge accepts the sentence, then it is up to the Bureau of Prisons to decide where Durst will serve it. Authorities suspect she was killed so she couldn’t divulge what she knew about Kathie Durst’s fate as investigators in Westchester County, N.Y., were taking a new look at the case.

The previous felony that is part of Durst’s plea was a 2004 plea in Pennsylvania to possessing a weapon both while under indictment for Black’s death and doing so while a fugitive on the murder charge.

Durst, who claimed he killed the neighbor, Morris Black, in self-defense, was acquitted of murder in that case, even after he dismembered the man and dumped his remains in Galveston Bay.

At the conclusion of the HBO documentary, Durst was confronted with an envelope he sent to Berman that seemed to match the handwriting on an anonymous note sent to police directing them to Berman’s body at her home. 38 caliber revolver in a New Orleans hotel room, The New York Times reported.

A convicted felon with firearm charge, has a max sentence of ten years.