LOS ANGELES — Real estate heir Robert Durst has agreed to be extradited from Louisiana to Los Angeles by mid-August to face a murder charge.
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office jointly filed an agreement with Durst and his lawyers for his return by Aug. 18.
Court filings have shown that Durst has struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors on a weapons charge in New Orleans. The weapons charge has kept Durst jailed in Louisiana since March, even though he waived extradition on the murder charge in Los Angeles.
Durst, an estranged member of the family that runs 1 World Trade Center in New York, faces a murder trial in L.A. in the 2000 death of friend and onetime spokeswoman Susan Berman, 55. The 72-year-old millionaire is accused of killing Berman to keep her from talking to investigators looking into the disappearance of his first wife in 1982.
Richard DeGuerin, one of Durst’s attorneys, said the agreement is “part of our effort to have Robert Durst face and defeat the California murder charge as soon as possible.”
