we can say that the los angeles authorities believe a handwritten letter linked to to susan berman's murder was, in fact, written by the hand of robert further and post-parked near the los angeles airport the day before berman was found shot to death. maybe you were the first introduced to robert further on the multipart hbo documentary "the jynx, the life and deaths of robert durst." by agreeing to take part in an hbo documentary, he kicked a sleeping dog, an investigation long smoldering in a california cold case homicide file revived. cathie scott wrote two books about the case. >> he wanted to have a documentary made about himself, and it ended up being the death of robert further, so to speak. >> r. >> reporter: durst agreed to sit down for two interviews, with the documentary producers. in the second interview, he struggled to explain two document, then asked to use the bathroom. his microphone was still hot as he mulligan talking to himself. >> what a disaster. >> reporter: then he blurted out what sound like a confession. >> what the hell did i do? killed them all, of course.

jinx evidence on earth is admitted not only connects but implicates robert durst in the murder of susan bermanfound by his step mom to durst. it has eerily similar handwriting that led them to the body of susan durst's home in 2000. this evidence has the word beverly in beverly hills misspelled in the same way. could the jinx have finally jinxed robert durst? >> the fanl was back along with former lapd homicide detective and fox news tron trib contributor mark fuhrman. you were an lapd detective. what do you think at the end of the jinx before he says i till them all of course. >> i think that the statement is going to come in. it was unsolicited, spontaneous statement. he is wearing a hot wire. he has been notified of the hot wire before. it is being recorded he knows it. that is specifically where he is there. i don't think it made a difference whether he went into the bathroom or other room. i think the statement will come in and it is lislely incriminating. >> i muss tell you in addition to his knowing he was wired, et cetera, someone said well he was in the bathroom maybe an expectation o

knowledge of kathy's passing. >> reporter: in the jinx a new stunning revelation by the stepson of susan berman. in a storage box he comes across a letter shortly before berman died. durst's handwriting, berman's note to police. they bear similarities. >> the address on the front is exactly like the cadaver note. >> reporter: remember durst is living as a mute woman in texas. but police are able to track him to california at the time of berman's death. so what says durst on "the jinx." >> california's a big state. >> reporter: police never managed to place her at berman's house at the time of her murder. the house has changed over the years. but the mystery ber cysts. susan berman's murder remains unsolved and the man police suspect most still free. less than a year later, october 2001 at durst's texas apartment building his neighbor morris black, goes missing. black's dismembered body parts begin washing ashore in galveston bay, 22 of them a torso, limbs, but no head. >> the fact that the head never showed up that's his home run. that's his luck process. >> reporter: and that ghoulish luck act

the filmmaker confronted evidence that durst may have been susan berman's killer. a letter durst wrote to susan berman that seemed to match the hand writing on an anonymous letter telling police where to find her body. >> the writing looks similar and the spelling is the same so i can see the conclusion the cops would draw. >> reporter: when the interview was over a shaken durst went to the bathroom still wearing his microphone and could be heard muttering to himself about the interview. >> killed them all, of course. >> reporter: on saturday, the day before the country heard his admissions on television authorities arrested robert durst in new orleans and charged him with the murder of susan berman. today durst's attorney said he's innocent and vowed to fight the charges. >> been durst didn't kill susan berman. he's ready to end all the rumor and speculation and have a trial. >> pelley: so, erin if the tape is what the producers say that it is, would any of this be admissible in court? >> well defense attorneys told me if this goes to trial, they will fight to kee

and now potential new evidence involving author susan berman, the daughter of a las vegas mob boss who earned her master's in journalism at uc berkeley in 1969. abc has more. >> reporter: this is 71-year-old-year-old robert durst, one of the heirs to a billion dollar real estate fortune, wearing an orange jumpsuit in his booking photo. sheriff answers department arrested him in new orleans saturday. sources say he was staying in a hotel under a fake name, paid for the room in cash and had fake documents in his possession. durst has long been under a cloud of success spigs spigs in three possible murders in three different states. he started talking in an hbo documentary series called the jinx. >> for a lot of people out there who think that i killed my wife, that i killed susan berman, that i intentionally mirded morris black. >> reporter: it started in 1982 when his first wife kathleen vanished. he was never charged but allegations of domestic abuse fueled rumors he was involved. then in 2007, another mystery, his good friends murdered in her home just before she was set to talk to ne

bob durst did not kill susan berman. we're ready to go to california and have a trial. >> this extraordinary turn of events looks to be categorized in the documentary "the jinx." >> he is very frank about the things she very frank about. things that he says that maybe turn out not to be true, but he is disarmingly honest about a lot of things that you or i would never consider to be things that we would give away if we could imagine being in his situation. >> last night, that series that was years in the making, came to a stunning conclusion as a micro phone appeared to pick up him mumbling under his breath. >> killed them all, of course. >> killed them all, of course. over the last three decades, he has been linked to three deaths and a disappearance. he has only been on trial for one of them. he admitted to shooting him, dismemberering his body and dumping the pieces into the bay. his legal team argued it was in self defense. the jury agreed and he was acquitted. the reason he was in galveston in the first place. in co

and to be honest, really, susan berman i thought sophisticated. n. >> durst will be in a louisiana courtroom this morning for an extradition hearing before being sent back to l. a. where berman was killed. live in the newsroom, ryan takeo, kpix 5. >>> we have a new traffic alert now. this time in the caldecott tunnel heading out of oakland into araneida. actually backing cars out of the tunnel right anabases there's been a crash and a car fire you know that that right bore of eastbound 24 is a pretty small tunnel. so they're trying to back cars out so they don't get caught in all smoke. we are seeing delays right now to bradway. >>> a beautiful sunrise this morning, we have partly to mostly cloudy skies across if bay area. . the wise extremely mild out the door. it is 58 degrees in oakland. and right now our other microclimate numbers are stacking up also in the low and mid- 50s. pollen report suggests the count today medium to high signs. >> all right, thanks for watching kpix 5 news this morning. >> your next local update at 7:26. frank will be b

bob durst didn't kill susan berman.l the rumor and speck listulation and have a trial. >> it looks line that trial will come, but based on durst's history, the end to the speculation may not. joining me now are former u.s. attorney kendall coffey and former prosecutor and host of judge faith," faith jenkins. >> thanks rev. >> faith, this case has so many twists. what stands out to you the most as prosecutors get ready for a trial? >> well, the first thing that stands out to me, this is a man who has dodged a life sentence for murder for decades. >> right. >> he has been the prime suspect in three digit murderfferent murders. one he admitted to and went to trial, was acquitted, said it was self-defense though he admitted and conceded he cut up the body afterwards. >> definitely. >> so why would you then sit down and agree to be part of an hbo documentary and commit to hours of interview and essentially you're going on the record now? and so that's why all of this has come about. he basically went he was on the record, on

accused of killing long time friend susan berman. her body was discovered in her california home back in 2000. at this hour durst is being held in louisiana without bail. he's awaiting extradition to los angeles. nbc has the latest. >> reporter: 70-year-old robert durst sat in criminal court at times with his eyes closed facing extradition to california for murder of his longtime friend susan berman in 2000. durst looked frail as he rose to speak to the judge indicating he did sign the waiver that will send him to los angeles to the trial. >> bob durst didn't kill susan berman, he's ready to end speculation and have a trial. >> reporter: durst has been the subject of the documentary series which takes a look at the disappearance of his wife kathy, a texas murder which he was charged and acquitted claiming the killing was self-defense and the murder he was arrested for late saturday. the show's finale aired saturday night hours after they arrested him in a hotels. a letter addressed to berman and confronted him with it. the handwritin

including susan berman's murder in 2000. re at kpix 5 and we interviewed the evening magazine host. >> she was hired as a writer/producer. and to be honest, really, susan

then in 2000, police were about to question durst's friend susan berman about what she knew. but before she talked with investigators, berman was found shot to death at her home here in beverly hills. police said it looked like an execution. durst told filmmaker andrew jarecki he didn't do it. >> i had nothing to do with susan berman's death. >> reporter: durst then moved to texas, where he admitted killing and dismembering his neighbor but claimed self defense. the jury agreed. >> -- find the defendant not guilty. >> reporter: after jarecki made this movie loosely based on durst, he agreed to be interviewed. >> his lawyer said, i think this is a terrible idea. you've been wrongly accused of three murders over 30 years. you're a free man. >> reporter: but "the jinx" may be durst's undoing. especially after the series linked two handwriting samples. one, on a mysterious note someone sent the beverly hills cops after susan berman was killed. another, on a newly-discovered letter durst is said to have once mailed to berman. >> the address written on the front is exactly like the

for months, he's speaking to virtually no one except this woman, susan berman. new york investigators decide to interview her. but before she could be questioned, around christmas 2000, someone shoots berman execution-style in her beverly hills home. the killer sends police this anonymous handwritten note obtained and shown in the hbo docu-series "the jinx." it lists berman's address and one word, cadaver. what did you think? >> i said, bob is eliminating the witnesses and people who have knowledge of kathy's passing. >> reporter: in "the jinx," a new stunning revelation by the stepson of susan berman. in a storage box, the stepson comes across a letter durst sent to berman shortly before she died. durst's handwriting, the killer's note to police, they bear remarkable similarities. down to the misspelling of beverly. in the final episode of "the jinx," robert durst is presented with a close match between his handwriting and the killer's. on camera he appears unfazed. he then walks away to the restroom, his mike still on. the camera records as he talks to himself.

. >> robert durst did not kill susan berman.is ready to end the speculation and have a trial. >> the 71-year-old taken into custody at this new orleans hotel saturday with a long trail of questions following him. his wife kathleen vanished in 1982. his friend and confident, susan berman, was shot execution-style in 2000. then durst killed his texas neighbor claiming self-defense and the jury agreed. but now filmmakers of an hbo documentary about durst's life have caught him in an unguarded moment that sounds like an admission. >> -- killed them all. >> durst appears to be talking to himself when he seems to say he killed them all. the off-camera audio when durst was in the bathroom apparently unaware his microphone was still on. but in interviews he repeatedly insisted he is not a killer. the audio reports a different angle. filmmakers say they were unaware of the audio until an editor discovered it and turned it over to police last year. >> it was killing to hear it. >> the audio and documentary had nothing to do with the arres

even though he says he didn't kill susan berman. in houston investigators searched his home for new evidence. nbc news obtained the warrant. the documents show that police estimate the real estate heir is worth $100 million. since october of last year detectives say durst had been withdrawing large sums of money from his bank account. most often with daily withdrawals of $9,000. after the 71-year-old's arrest in new orleans, police found more than $42,000 in his hotel room. $100 bills kept in small envelopes. also found in the room, a loaded gun with four rounds, a rubber mask which would cover an individual's head and neck, and u.p.s. tracking numbers. durst told police were for a shipment of a large sum of cash. the warrant reveals details of at least some of the evidence los angeles police had collected in the murder of susan berman. as early as 2002 investigators suspected it was probable durst wrote an anonymous letter to police telling them where to find susan berman's body. the letter with the address and word cadaver was rev

over 14 years ago of his very good friend susan berman. now, cnn has learned from a law enforcement source that was briefed on this investigation that when robert durst was arrested saturday night in the late hours right here in downtown new orleans, he was near an elevator. he was mumbling to himself and he was sort of walking in circles. he had checked into that hotel on tuesday using cash, a fake name. he had a fake driver's license on him when he was arrested. and he stays in the local jail here until this extradition hearing. now, this morning on "good morning america" the director of the hbo documentary spoke because there was much incriminating information that came out in that documentary. this is his response on "good morning america" in regard to their involvement with law enforcement. listen to this. >> we've been in contact with law enforcement for the past two years. when we finally found that subsequent admission what happens in the bathroom we contacted them and said we have something more. >> reporter: of course the defense

he was arrested saturday in connection with his friend susan berman's death in 2000. appears in court today for an extradition hearing. in a stunning twist, the real estate heir appears to confess to killing berman and others. the confession caught on a microphone filming the documentary "the jinx." during the finale he can be heard saying quote, i killed them all. stephanie gosk has the update. >> reporter: good morning, tamron. well robert durst is expected to waive extradition to california in a courtroom here in new orleans. law enforcement officials tell nbc news he was arrested at a marriott hotel. checked in under an alias, paying with cash and that they caught up with him walking through the lobby mumbling to himself. this happened hours before the final installment in that documentary focusing on his life on hbo. producers of the documentary promised a dramatic conclusion. durst is the subject of the hbo documentary "the jinx." >> did not tell the whole truth, nobody tells the whole truth. >> reporter: the series re-examines three crimes the disappearance of

susan berman's stepson finds a handwritten letter from robert durst to susan berman that looks horribly a month before she gets murdered. the address written on the front is exactly like the cadaver and note the misspelling the word beverly. >> that bombshell could be a new break in the case. today "the new york times" reporting the district attorney in los angeles has recently re-opened an investigation into the killing of mr. durst's friend susan berman and is tying it to the case about his missing wife in new york according to four people who have spoke ton investigators. the reporter who broke that story and has been reporting on robert durst for 15 years joins me next. most of the products we all buy are transported on container ships. before a truck delivers it to your store, a container ship delivered it to that truck. here in san diego, we're building the first one ever to run on natural gas. ships this big running this clean will be much better for the environment. . ♪ one, two, three o'clock. four o'clock pop. ♪ five, six, seven o'clock. eight o'clock pop. ♪ ♪ nine, ten eleven

this time his good friend and spokesperson susan berman found murdered in her california home. >> i felt terrible for susan. was astonished they were putting all this together that i did it or i caused it to be done. >> reporter: berman scheduled to tell sport utah authority what does she knew about the case. >> durst was sending susan berman money $50,000. why would he send her that much money? at or about the time that we're looking to talk to her? kite to be shut her up? could it be to convince her not to say the truth? >> reporter: once again, durst evaded formal charges. in an attempt to escape the negative attention, durst fled to texas disguising himself as a woman. then a year later another gruesome discovery. a fisherman in galveston bay finds a garbage bag washed up onshore. >> i was shocked to see that there was a torso. no head, no legs no arms. >> reporter: later, the corpse's arms and legs are found. the head still missing. the victim 71-year-old morris black, robert durst's neighbor. durst was arrested but not knowing he had access to millions, authorities set his bail at

acquitted him. >> not guilty. >> now authorities in los angeles have re-opened the investigation into susan berman's murder and the hbo series may have helped. bermans stepson revealed a letter durst sent her forker his part durst denies any involvement in the death. >> i had nothing to do with susan berman's death. >> a real life story still waiting for the final chapter. abc news, new orleans. >> san jose fire investigators say faulty wiring may be to blame for a fire that left two people without a home. a neighbor took the cell phone video of flames leaping from the house on rose creek drive. the fire began just before 9:00 last night and was out 30 minutes later. firefighters did manage to keep the flames contained but the roof collapsed. no one was hurt. the two people who lived in the house are now staying with relatives. >>> new details now in a fire that injured a family of five in san francisco's mission district. st. francis memorial hospital says today that three burn victims, father and two of his children, are improving and are now out of critical condition. the fire happened wednesday

to fight a murder charge in the death of susan berman.er today. 20-year-old jeffrey williams appeared in a st. louis courtroom today. he is charged in the shooting of two police officers in ferguson missouri, last week. officials say williams admitted to firing the shots but says he was not aiming at those officers. and an attorney and former federal judge confirming he's been hired by the university of oklahoma to assist in an investigation into a racist chant by a fraternity. and the faa has unveiled its forecast for the next 20 years in airline passenger growth expect the friendly skies to be 2% more crowded every year for the next two decades. >>> the third week of the boston bombing trial began today with the court and jurors being taken to an off-site location in south boston to view the bullet ridden boat where death dzhokhar tsarnaev was eventually captured. jurors were allowed to look inside the boat and see the locations where the government said tsarnaev wrote messages while hiding from police. you see the messages there. ron m

susan berman was his friend. authorities say she was the daughter of a las vegas mobster and worked on the bay area television show evening magazine. prosecutors believe robert durst killed susan berman because she was about to be questioned about the disappearance of robert durst's wife. >> robert durst didn't kill susan berman. he is ready to end all the rumors and speckulation have a trial -- speculation and have a trial. . >> reporter: authorities in new orleans are deciding whether to charge him for carrying a gun without a permit. robertrobert durst's arrest saturday game a day before the finale of hbo true-crime series "the jinx." robert durst could be heard muttering on a live microphone saying what did i do? killed them all, of course. and authorities haven't said if that documentary led to the weekend arrest but it is believed the comments made will be used in the case against him. back to you. >> all right. thank you. this isn't the first time robert durst faced murder charges. >> reporter: that's righ

susan berman was supposed to talk to the disappearance of durst's wife.ad she was shot in the back of her head. >> i am going to say there's no i wantedcation number one he committed this murder and number two whether you can prove he committed this murder and number two there's no indication he's an actual flight risk. >> his off camera confession comes as no surprise to those that are close to this case. durst is expected to be in court this morning for an extradition hearing. >> the question now, how will that explosive confession hold up in court? former homicide detective mark fuhrman is weighing in. >> it was an unsolicited spontaneous. he is wearing a hot wire. he is being recorded. he knows it. the i don't think it makes a difference bhif he went into a bathroom or any other room. he knows he is being wired. >> durst will spend millions on an attorney who will try to build the strongest defense possible. >> new allegations the obama administration is working overtime trying to make sure benjamin netanyahu doesn't get re-elected. >> good morning to

susan berman was killed because she knew too much about kathleen durst. i believe that he murdered her to prevent her from talking to us. >> reporter: durst's lawyers advised him not to take back in the documentary. instead his desire to talk might be the thing prosecutors have been looking for all aloeng. >> now to an odd story out of the middle east. ruthless killered dressed up. jihad di jones. isis fighters caught fleeing dressed as women. these are instagram pictures showing them wearing drag. nbc has not been able to authenticate the images. from current affairs to climate change. president obama is addressing it all with vice news. the president said this when asked about the 47 gop senators who sent the letter to iran. >> i'm embarrassed for them because it's not how america does business. their basic argument to them is don't deal with our president, because you can't trust him to follow through on an agreement. it's close to unprecedented. >> later the host tells president obama the number one topic their reeders wanted to talk about was marijua

and get it on. >> bob durst didn't kill susan berman. >> susan berman once worked here at kpix5, a writer and producer for evening magazine. >>> the polls have been open in israel for about an hour. the outcome will determine whether prime minister benjamin netanyahu will keep his job another six years. the final day of the campaign he promised a palestinian state will not be established if he's reelected. netanyahu may not have a chance to keep that pledge. polls have shown the rival party in the lead. >>> meanwhile in san francisco tonight there's a push to lower the voting age to 16. a large group of teenagers rallied at city hall to urge city leaders to act. the change would be only for city elections. supervisors john avalos and eric mar are behind the idea and so are city school leaders. >> what better way to teach young people about civic responsibility, democratic participation than to start early, to teach it in civics class, to teach it in government class and allow them to get out there there and exercise that vote and get them in the pattern of it when we still have them in ou

that i killed susan berman.ntionally murdered morris black. >> reporter: durst's first wife kathleen vanished in 1982, he was investigated but never charged. then in 2000. police were about to question durst's friend, susan berman about what she knew. before she was able to talk to investigators, she was found shot to death in her home in beverly hills. police said it looked like an execution. durst told the film director he didn't do it. >> i had nothing to do with susan berman's death. durst then moved to texas where he admitted killing and dismembering his neighbor but claimed self-defense. the jury agreed. >> not guilty. >> after the director made the movie loosely based on durst. he agreed to be interviewed. >> his lawyer said i think this is a terrible idea. you have been wrongly accused for three murders over 30 years. you're a free man. >> the jinx may be durst's undoing. >> we have something the lapd is going to really want. >> especially after the series linked two handwriting samples. one on a mysteri

the way the cops know susan berman is dead they get this note, right?w -- they find the body before that but this is the big clue. last night we see a letter that came from robert durst in which beverly is missmelled the same way and it looks exactly like the handwriting. did you know that reveal was comeing? >> no, you know it was so shocking because it looked like a -- an exact copy and here's the thing. in 2002 while robert durst is sitting in jail in texas, the l.a. police ask for a handwriting sample and so you know, bob writes out something, but, you know it's very hard to get a handwriting expert to say the block lettering is the same because -- >> ah interesting. >> -- because it's different. they thought, okay that's a dead end so for, what is it now, 13 years it's been a dead end so this is a complete shock. >> so you saw that moment live in realtime. >> yes. >> you were just like oh. i mean -- >> it was a holy -- moment. >> apologies for the word there. they don't put that in "the new york times." did you -- so you reported today about the fa

he was accused of killing susan berman. >> they're unable to put him in los angeles. >> but they were able to put you in california. >> california is a big state. >> but the documentary may have unearthed an important clue in berman's death. berman's death. a letter striking an anonymous note tipping them off to the location of berman's body. erin moriarty of ""48 hours"" discussed the similarities with the retired lapd detective who led the investigation. >> is that the moment when you compared cadaver letterer to bobby durst's handwriting, the moment he became at the top of the list of suspects. >> oh, yeah. he jumped up. just the totality of things but that note put him right at the tot. >> reporter: durst, whose family owns a number of management skyscraper has never been charged in the death of his wife kathleen and acquitted in the murder of his neighbor. he agreed to be interviewed for the hbo series so he could tell his story his way but they say the interviews he granted to the filmmakers prompted them to reopen their investigation to susan berman's murder. durst's attorney s

even though he says he didn't kill susan berman.tigators searched his home for new evidence. we obtained the warrant. the documents show that the heir is worth $100 million. they say he's been withdrawing large sums of money with daily withdrawals of $9,000. after the 71-year-old's arrest in new orleans, police found more than $42,000 in his hotel room. $100 bills kept in small envelopes. also found in the room a loaded gun with four rounds. a rubber mask which would cover an individual's head and neck and ups tracking numbers that durst told police were for a shipment of a large sum of cash. it reveals details of some of the evidence they've collected in the murder of susan berman. they suspected it was probable durst wrote an anonymous let tore police telling them where to find her body. the letter with an address and the word cadaver was revealed in the hbo documentary. they confronted him along with a separate letter he sent to susan berman. >> i wrote this one. i did not write that one. >> last november two document analysts i.

them to susan berman's body.pelled. spelled in the same handwriting. there are points where he's giving himself away seemingly. we don't know how much of this will factor into the case. but you are not surprised by the fact that he's now tripping himself up? >> no not at all. i mean he thumbs his nose at everybody. you know that's basically what he's doing. and i think he just -- who knows why he why he mailed that letter. it actually mailed it to the beverly hills police and he spelled "beverly" wrong. he thought she was in beverly hills, she was actually in the lapd's jurisdiction. of course it was mailed before her body was discovered. so the kill her to mail it. but he he just sort of thumbs his nose at everybody because he -- i think some of it he gets a kick out of it. he's almost become a caricature of himself, don't you think? >> seemingly so. >> he's a billionaire. >> he's a billionaire. he has funds that he can somehow manage to help him escape and evade and move around quickly. 1982 until now. that's a

accused of murdering his close friend susan berman in her l.a. home nearly 15 years ago, robert durst's attorney says his client is not guilty and they are eager to prove it in court. >> we are frustrated because the local authorities are considering filing charges on him here and holding him here. we're ready to go to california and have a trial. >> reporter: a police report obtained by nbc news indicates the 71-year-old was found with a smith and wesson revolver. officers were warned he was armed and dangerous and a flight risk. the arrest took place just hours before the dramatic conclusion of hbo's documentary "the jinx." director andrew jarecki confronts durst with new evidence that could tie his handwriting to a note sent to police by susan berman's presumed killer. >> i wrote this one. but i did not write that one. >> reporter: durst goes to the bathroom seemingly unaware he was still being recorded. >> there it is. you're caught. what the hell did i do? killed them all, of course. >> reporter: is this a confession to three murders? his wi

to be honest really susan berman i thought sophisticated, well-spoken. >>reporter: durst heir to new york city real estate fortune has long been suspected in the unsolved 1982 disappearance of his first wife kathleen in new york. as investigators prepare to question berman about chat lean's disappearance she was shot to death at her beverly hills home. durst was also tried for the 200 1 murder a neighbor in texas but claims self-defense an was acquitted. experts say bail is unlikely since durst has a history of fleeing. danielle nottingham cbs news los angeles. >>> extradition to los angeles may be delayed because new orleans authorities are considering filing charges against durst related to drugs and a gun allegedly found in his hotel room. >>> said lined by scandal a fired 4 niners goes on the offensive. the courtroom battle he hopes will save his career. >>> just how bad is this winter? one of the sierra's most popular resorts shuts down can't say thank you enough. you have made my life special by being apart of it. (everyone) cheers! glad you made i

only months before susan berman gets killed. the police decide they want to talk to susan berman. before susan berman goes to the police she gets killed. >> okay, dan abrams, thanks very much. >> now to that scare in the air. the pilots on a flight from washington to denver declaring an emergency after an unruly passenger caused a disturbance shortly after takeoff. passengers tackled him holding him down while it returned to the airport. abc's gio benitez has the story. >> we've got a situation with a passenger. we're going to have to return back to the airport. >> reporter: overnight terrifying moments aboard a united passenger jet. >> he ran forward towards the cockpit and he is being restrained by other passengers. >> reporter: watch as quick-thinking passengers are able to tackle and subdue this man before he reaches the cockpit door. the video taken by a passenger on board showing two men holding him down as he screams and seems to apologize. >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: the boeing 737 with 33 passengers on board had just taken off from dulles airport headed for denver. >> he s

that i killed susan berman. that i intentionally murdered morris black. >> the 71-year-old's first wife kathleen disappeared in 1982. in 2000 his good friend susan berman was found murdered as she was set to talk to police about kathleen's disappearance. >> the question is did the police suspect him enough? her friends and family members think that they could have and should have been tougher. >> a year later, durst admitted he killed his elderly neighbor morris black but claimed self defense and acquitted. now the hbo series appears to help police reopen the case and arrest durst for murdering susan berman. >> while durst maintains he is innocent, authorities say at the time of his arrest, durst was found on him fake documents suggesting he may have wanted to flee the country, possibly to cuba. reena and gio back to you. >> incredible story. thank you so much. and news breaking overnight now in los angeles. two police officers injured in a shootout. >> the plane clothed narcotic officers were in their unmarked

reporter: police believe robert durst was getting ready to run, even though he said he didn't kill susan berman. in houston investigators searched his home for new evidence. nbc news obtained a new warrant. the documents show the heir is worth $100 million. since last year detectives say durst had been with drawing large sums of money from his bank account, most often with daily withdrawals of $90 million42,000. they found $100 bills in envelopes. also found in the room, a loaded gun with four rounds a rubber mask which would cover an individual's head and neck and ups tracking numbers that durst told police were for a shipment of a large sum of cash. the warrant reveals details of at least some of the evidence los angeles police have collected in the murder of susan berman. as early as 2002 investigators suspected it was probable durst wrote an anonymous letter to police telling them where to find susan berman's daughter. the letter was addressed to police -- there was a letter and the word cadaver was revealed in the hbo series "the jinx." >> i wrote this one, i did not write the cadaver one.

of course, his attorney says he is innocent. >> bob durst didn't kill susan berman. the warrant that was issued in california was issued because of a television show and not because of facts. >> reporter: durst was charged yet. they believe berman has been killed because she had information about his wife in 1982. durst attorney says he plans to fight the warrant. >>> he gave a controversial interview earlier today before the vote. his comments throwing future peace talks in doubt if he and his party remain in office. more from jerusalem. >> reporter: nearly 6 million voters headed to polling today. his job on the line with opinion polls indicating a tight race. >> translator: i think that anyone who moves to move a pal till stand state is giving territory away. >> reporter: the prime minister facing stiff competition. he is also called for restorying styes for the u.s. which has become strains. >> a better future for the intral israel. >> reporter: after poll results are in israel president will discuss whou will be prime minister and then select a candidate. with a