durst s attorney who say they are eager to get back to california and face his capital murder charge, which he says he s not guilty of. unfortunately, they are stuck here and it s unclear how long they are going to be here. whether those charges are going to be brought in front of the judge and whether he s going to have to stand trial or put them on hold and send him back to california. it seems as though there s going to be a certain amount of discussion between new orleans and l.a. what s the next step for the prosecutors and l.a.p.d.? reporter: right now, they are waiting. what they did in the last 24 hours was officially file the criminal complaint. interesting because they framed the capital case which means durst could face the death penalty. they also added an interesting note. they didn t explain it all that well, but they said susan was a witness to a crime and that s why she was killed.
good morning to you al good morning to you all. i m t.j. holmes. i m reena ninan. here s some of the top headlines we re following on world news now.” millionaire real estate heir robert durst, charged with drug and gun offenses in louisiana. those are connected to a murder charge to the death of a friend in los angeles 15 years ago. full details on the case straight ahead. election day in israel. as benjamin netanyahu fights to stay in office. netanyahu is taking a hard-line stance to pick up votes. we go live to jerusalem in a moment. five members of the university of maryland women s la crosse team have been suspended. the upper classmen wrote threatening text messages to freshmen players. and pete rose is asking baseball s new commissioner for reinstatement of the game. he s been serving a lifetime ban for betting on the cincinnati reds while he was managing the
documentary. miguel marquez has more. reporter: robert durst mumbling to himself in the bathroom seemingly admitting to murder. killed them all. of course. reporter: all of them could be a reference to the death or disappearance of three people close to durstment the son of a multimillionaire real estate magnate. first his young wife kaeth disappeared in 1982 after arguing with durst. her body never found. when investigators reopened the case in 2000 and requested an interview with durst friend susan berman, she was then murdered execution style inside her l.a. home on christmas eve. soon after, durst moved to far off galveston, texas, claiming he wanted to escape his new york notoriety. he went so far as to pose as a woman mask raiding in a wig and pretending to be mute to hide his husky voice.
to deal with those charges. this is we re still awaiting extradition. his lawyer says that he s not fighting extradition, he wants to go to los angeles over what has become now the interview. the famous interview in the hbo series the jinx where he apparently admits in the bathroom after being confronted with evidence over the 2000 death of susan berman. a long-time friend of his, where he appears to admit not only that murder but perhaps several murders. the big question now for prosecutors is whether or not he could, whether that admission constitutes an admission and whether or not a jury will ever hear it. michaela? so many questions. all right miguel. thank you for that. catty scott is an investigative journalist and the author of two books about this case. the murder is called murder in beverly hills and murder of a mafia daughter kathy. thanks for joining us.
susan berman robert durst. tom, look at these two handwriting samples. these are exactly alike. that s right, alisyn and think it doesn t take a document expert to look at that and say just what you ve just said they look exactly alike. i mean even to the point where beverly hills is misspelled. tom, for the jury this is an open-and-shut case isn t it in. i don t know that anything is ever an open-and-shut case already, especially with durst. we ll have to see. but that certainly is very incriminating that the printing looks so close. almost looks exactly identical and then the other evidence that s been uncovered, such as the microphone where he s in the bathroom. sounding like he admits to murder. now i think that you know that s probably going to go before a jury. whether a jury gets talked out of thinking that it s a confession by his presentation from his defense attorney that will be another story.