Accused murderer Robert Durst is suicidal and has been moved to a facility for mentally ill inmates, according to a report.
Durst, who was arrested over the weekend for a murder that occurred in 2000, was the subject of a documentary in which he essentially
admitted to killing three people during the finale of the six-episode series that aired Sunday night.
On Wednesday,
the Los Angeles Times reported the 71-year-old Durst was transferred to another jail Tuesday that treats mentally ill prisoners.
"He's suicidal," attorney Blake Arcuri, who worked with the Orleans Parish (Louisiana) Sheriff's Office on Durst's case, told the Times.
Investigators in several jurisdictions across the country are looking at evidence and piecing things together in the wake of Durst's arrest. He is suspected in the disappearance and presumed death of his first wife in New York in 1982, and he was charged on Monday with murder in the 2000 killing of his best friend, a crime that occurred in California. In 2003, he was acquitted in the 2001 death and dismemberment of his neighbor in Texas.
Durst was in New Orleans over the weekend, where authorities arrested him on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department. He is also being investigated in the 1997 disappearance of a teenage girl in California.
During the finale of the six-part documentary, "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," Durst was captured on a hot mic saying, "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course."
Arcuri told the Times that Durst's current mental state is not related to whether he'll be mentally competent to stand trial.
"If he gets cleared, he'll come back," Arcuri said, referring to the jail where Durst has been held since Saturday night.
"He is not getting treated differently than any other inmate. This is not a media circus."
Durst is the son of New York City real estate mogul Seymour Durst.
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