I DID HBO HIGH ON METH
Creepy New York realestate heir Robert Durst didn’t mean to admit his guilt in the murders of three people on the HBO miniseries “The Jinx” — that was just the methamphetamines talking!
That’s the excuse Durst, 73, stuck with when cops busted him for the murder of Susan Berman on March 15, 2015 — the day before the series’ finale aired — newly released court documents show.
“I was on meth, I was on meth the whole time . . . it should have been obvious,” the wealthy weirdo told Los Angeles prosecutors that day, according to a newly-released interrogation transcript.
“I think the reason I did it had to be because I was swooped, speeding,” he claimed of his self-incriminating, caught-on-tape outburst, in which he muttered in a bathroom — while unknowingly wearing a hot mic — “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”
During three hours of questioning in a New Orleans jail cell, Durst admitted to prosecutors that he could have gone on the lam after producers of the docu-series confronted him on tape.
He’d known for nearly two years, ever since a series of 2013 tapings, that “The Jinx” producers planned to use Durst’s own handwriting to link him to the 2000 single-bullet-to-the-head murder in Beverly Hills of his best friend, Berman.
“You saw the envelopes,” LA County Deputy District Attorney John Lewin asked Durst, referring to one envelope Durst once addressed to Berman, and a second one with matching handwriting and spelling errors, in which he’d anonymously told cops where to find Berman’s “cadaver.”
“How come you didn’t leave then?” the prosecutor asked, incredulously. “It’s mind boggling to me.”
Durst answered: “I guess inertia. I just didn’t really, really, really think that I was gonna end up arrested.”
LA prosecutors have charged Durst with murdering Berman out of fear that she’d implicate him in the 1982 disappearance of his young wife, Kathleen, in New York — a presumed murder for which he’s never been charged.
Cops found him in a New Orleans hotel, where he’d been staying under an assumed name. He had in his possession bags of marijuana, $40,000 in cash, a fleshtoned latex mask and a .38-caliber revolver, for which he has already quickly been convicted of firearm possession.
Durst was acquitted of what investigators believe was his third murder; he admitted to a Texas jury that he’d killed his neighbor, Morris Black, in 2001, after the pair struggled over a gun during an argument.