Mar 17, 2015 3 min read

HOUSTON – Police Tuesday were searching the Houston home of millionaire Robert Durst after his arrest over the weekend in New Orleans.

Durst, 71, is charged with murder in a Los Angeles killing 15 years ago, and was suspected – but never charged – in the disappearance of his first wife in New York. In 2003, he was acquitted of murder in a dismemberment death in Texas.

On Tuesday afternoon, a marked Houston police car and three unmarked cars were in front of a 17-story building in Houston’s Rice Village neighborhood where Durst has three condominiums. At least five plainclothes officers were working inside the guarded building. Two of the officers were seen walking to a nearby unmarked car, retrieving a small bag from the trunk and returning to the building.

Houston police and the Harris County district attorney’s office referred questions to the Los Angeles Police Department. Harris County district attorney’s office spokesman Jeff McShan said LAPD contacted his office last week. McShan would not elaborate on what was discussed.

LAPD Sgt. Barry Montgomery, a spokesman for the department, said the department is not commenting on the case until Durst is in their custody.

“This is an investigation that’s being handled by multi-jurisdictions,” Montgomery said. “At this juncture, the only thing the LAPD is doing is waiting for the extradition. We are just waiting on him to make it into our custody.”

In a documentary that just wrapped up about Durst’s troubled life, he mumbled about how he “killed them all,” providing a dramatic kick to the end of the series. But a law enforcement official said his arrest on the murder charge was based on words he wrote.

Analysis linked a letter Durst wrote to his friend Susan Berman a year before her killing with one that pointed police to her body, and that was the key new evidence in the long-dormant investigation into the 2000 killing, the official not authorized to speak publicly told the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

He waived extradition in New Orleans, but authorities there charged him late Monday with being a felon in possession of a gun and with having a small amount of marijuana. Assistant District Mark Burton said they found the pot and gun in his hotel room.

It was not clear how soon he would be returned to California.

Attorney Dick DeGuerin said he wants a hearing in Louisiana as soon as possible to contest the arrest.

“The warrant we believe is based on a television show and not on actual fact,” he said. “We want a hearing as quickly as possible so Mr. Durst can go to California and face trial as quickly as possible.”