LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst, the scion of a prominent New York real estate family who gained new notoriety this year in an HBO documentary on his alleged crimes, has agreed to come from Louisiana to Los Angeles to face charges that he killed a friend to stop her from cooperating with an investigation into the disappearance of his wife. Prosecutors said... (Associated Press) 
 
 Durst and his attorneys jointly filed an agreement with the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The agreement, made public by the district attorney's office, is dependent on Durst reaching a separate plea deal in a federal weapons case in Louisiana and his sentencing in that case. Richard DeGuerin, one of Durst's attorneys, said in a statement Tuesday that the extradition agreement is "part of our effort to have Robert Durst face and defeat the California murder charge as soon as possible." The weapons charge has kept Durst jailed in Louisiana since March, even though he waived extradition on the murder charge in Los Angeles. Durst drew national attention this year as the subject of the HBO docudrama “The Jinx.” 
 
 The series explored the mysterious disappearance of Durst’s wife, Kathy, in 1982, as well as the 2000 killing of Berman, who was found shot in her Benedict Canyon home. He has a change-of-plea hearing in federal court scheduled for Feb. 3. “Bob Durst didn't kill Susan Berman and doesn't know who did,” DeGuerin said. “He's ready to get to California and prove his innocence.” 
 
 Laurie Levenson, a Loyola law professor and former federal criminal prosecutor, said the deal to move Durst to Los Angeles was not surprising. Durst was arrested in New Orleans on the eve of the finale of "The Jinx," a six-part HBO documentary about Durst, the disappearance of his wife, Berman's death, and the death and dismemberment of a neighbor in Texas in 2001.
– Los Angeles will get another high-profile celebrity trial next summer: Real estate heir Robert Durst has agreed to be extradited from Louisiana to face charges that he murdered friend Susan Berman in 2000, reports the AP. The Durst case is convoluted, but he's the one who seemingly implicated himself in the deaths of Berman and two others by muttering to himself at the end of the HBO documentary, The Jinx. Investigators think Durst killed Berman to keep her from talking to detectives re-examining the disappearance of Durst's first wife in 1982. The 72-year-old also is suspected in the murder and dismemberment of a neighbor in Texas in 2001. Durst is being held on gun charges unrelated to those deaths. "Bob Durst didn't kill Susan Berman and doesn't know who did," his attorney tells the Los Angeles Times. "He's ready to get to California and prove his innocence."