Robert Durst arrested for murder after HBO documentary The Jinx goes to air

HE thinks nobody is listening, but the mike is still attached. Did suspected three-time murderer Robert Durst just make a confession?

UPDATE: JAWS have collectively dropped across America where the final episode of cult HBO documentary The Jinx has aired.

When he thinks nobody is listening, suspected triple murderer Robert Durst drops a bombshell.

“What the hell did I do?” he whispers to himself in the bathroom. “Killed them all, of course.”

Reaction to the ending has been a mixture of shock, admiration and anger at the filmmakers for allegedly not turning in the audio of Durst’s apparent confession earlier.

On Saturday, the notorius New York real-estate scion was arrested for the murder of his friend and writer Susan Berman.

Reports say Berman was a friend of Durst’s wife Kathleen, who vanished in 1982 after saying she wanted a divorce. Durst has long been a suspect.

The LA Times quotes law enforcement sources as saying Berman may have been killed because she knew too much about Kathleen Durst’s mysterious disappearance.

Umm... #TheJinx wow!

— Richard Fye (@richardfye) March 16, 2015

No one on my facebook watches #TheJinx and now I understand the alienation Robert Durst felt within his family.

— Steven with a PH (@stevewparkhurst) March 16, 2015

HBO deprived families of closure and justice by holding on to that footage from #TheJinx for over a year.

— Paul Blair (@gopaulblair) March 16, 2015

Is it wrong that i've come out of this really liking #RobertDurst? #thejinx

— mel rainier (@mckennadass) March 16, 2015

Durst was taken into custody in New Orleans about 11 pm local time on a first-degree-murder warrant, sources told the LA Times. He is being held on the warrant out of Los Angeles County by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The development comes after Durst, 71, was first featured in an ongoing HBO miniseries The Jinx, about his suspected involvement in three murders, including Berman’s.

In extraordinarily candid interviews for the six-part show, Durst gives chilling details about dismembering a neighbour and at one point tells the camera: “No one tells the whole truth.”

Is it too late to maybe get Jarecki +team on the JonBenet Ramsey case? #TheJinx

— SAM CHIN (@SamanthaJChin) March 16, 2015

Just finished The Jinx finale... Andddd gonna start the series over again. #TheJinx #hbo

— courtney (@kirtney) March 16, 2015

HBO sure one upped @serial with this finale. #TheJinx

— Jon Gales (@jonknee) March 16, 2015

A file mugshot of Robert Durst after he was charged with dismembering a neighbour.

The series was likened to true-crime podcast sensation Serial. Police said they were paying close attention when it first went to air last month.

An investigation into Berman’s 2000 murder was recently reopened by the Los Angeles district attorney after the documentary starting airing and revealed new information about her death — and Durst’s possible involvement.

For example, information from the fifth episode of the series showed that Durst knew Berman was dead and that her body was inside her Benedict Canyon home, according to The New York Times. Cops had previously been unable to place Durst in LA when she died.

Durst had been suspected of sending an anonymous letter sent to the Beverly Hills Police Department telling them there was a “cadaver” at Berman’s home. It was written in distinctive block letters and misspelled Beverly Hills as “Beverley” Hills.

In the fifth episode of The Jinx, which Durst was interviewed for, Berman’s stepson recalls finding a 1999 letter from Durst to Berman with the same lettering and the “Beverley” Hills misspelling.

Eccentric millionaire Robert Durst, right, sighs with relief after being found not guilty of the murder of Morris Black in 2003.

Berman, the daughter of a mob boss who helped create Las Vegas with fellow Mafiosos such as Bugsy Siegel, was a writer who worked as Durst’s unofficial “spokeswoman” at one point, reports have said.

Authorities were trying to talk to her about the earlier disappearance of Durst’s wife, Kathleen, when she was killed.

Kathleen Durst disappeared in 1982 after saying she wanted a divorce.

Durst made headlines in 2003 when he was acquitted in the murder of Morris Black, whose dismembered body was found stuffed in plastic garbage bags in Galveston Bay, Texas, two years earlier.

Before the trial, Durst jumped a $1 billion bond but was caught in Pennsylvania weeks later after shoplifting a sandwich and Band-Aids.

In 2014, Durst was arrested for urinating on a drug-store candy display near his home in southwest Houston, KPRC reports.

The final episode of the mini-series airs Sunday at 8 pm.

Writer Susan Berman was the victim of a baffling murder.

A missing poster for Kathleen Durst, who vanished in 1982.

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