Real Estate Heir Plans to Fight Murder Charge
A New York real estate heir charged with the dismemberment murder of a 71-year-old neighbor in Galveston doesn’t plan to fight extradition because he wants to return to Texas, his attorney said.
Robert Durst is scheduled to appear in court in Northampton County, Pa., on Jan. 25 and is expected to waive his right to an extradition hearing.
“Mr. Durst wants to come back to Texas. He’s not guilty of murder, and he wants a trial,” Houston lawyer Dick DeGuerin said.
Durst has been jailed without bail in Pennsylvania since his Nov. 30 arrest.
Besides the Galveston killing, investigators want to question Durst in the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen, and the Christmas Eve 2000 slaying of one of his friends, Los Angeles writer Susan Berman.
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