Robert Durst to White House Scare: 5 Things to Know This Wednesday Morning

ByABC News
March 18, 2015, 5:57 AM
A car passes the building where millionaire Robert Durst lives hours before police began a search Tuesday, March 17, 2015, in Houston. Durst, 71, is charged with murder in a Los Angeles killing 15 years ago, and has been suspected ? but never charged ? in the disappearance of his first wife in New York.
A car passes the building where millionaire Robert Durst lives hours before police began a search Tuesday, March 17, 2015, in Houston. Durst, 71, is charged with murder in a Los Angeles killing 15 years ago, and has been suspected ? but never charged ? in the disappearance of his first wife in New York.
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Items Removed After Search of Robert Durst Condo in Houston

— -- Police were seen carrying out two white cardboard boxes at around 8:30 p.m. local time Tuesday after searching murder suspect Robert Durst's condominium in the Houston's Rice Village neighborhood.

Durst remained in custody in Louisiana, where he was transferred to a jail equipped to deal with the mentally ill, as he awaits extradition to Los Angeles to face a first-degree murder charge, police said.

Durst was being moved to the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, which is about an hour away from New Orleans, an Orleans Parish Sheriff's spokesman said.

was being transferred this evening a jail equipped to deal with the mentally ill, as he awaits extradition to Los Angeles to face a first degree murder charge, police said.

Durst, who appeared before a judge again today in New Orleans to face additional charges stemming from his arrest on Sunday, was being moved to the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, which is about an hour away from New Orleans, an Orleans Parish Sheriff's spokesman said.

Secret Service Testing Letter to White House for Cyanide

The Secret Service was trying to determine whether a letter sent to the White House contained cyanide.

The letter returned a presumptive positive for cyanide, but it was being tested again to confirm the result, the Secret Service said Tuesday, confirming a story first reported by The Intercept.

The letter was received Monday at the White House Mail Screening Center, and after initial biological testing came up negative, chemical testing today came up with the positive for cyanide.

Israel's Netanyahu Scores Decisive Victory

It appeared early today that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored an even clearer victory than Tuesday night's exit polls suggested.

With some 99.5 percent of votes counted early today, his Likud party appeared to have earned 30 out of parliament's 120 seats. The opposition Zionist Union appeared to wind up with just 24 seats.

Recent polling showed Netanyahu trailing.

Search Warrant Alleges New Details About Suspended Penn State Fraternity

A police search warrant gives new details about why a Penn State fraternity was suspended for a year and faces additional investigations.

State College Police have been investigating members of the Kappa Delta Rho for allegedly maintaining a private Facebook page that featured pictures of nude, unconscious women.

According to a police search warrant from police in State College, Pennsylvania, a fraternity member arrived at the police station in January with concerns that the page called "2.0" was illegal.

The Real Von Trapps Run a Vermont Lodge, Brewery

The famous singing von Trapp family is forever immortalized in the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, “The Sound of Music,” and while Hollywood embellished some details about their lives, there was a real Maria, a real Captain von Trapp and a real troupe of singing von Trapp children.

Today, Johannes von Trapp, 76, the eldest son of Maria and Baron Georg Johannes von Trapp, owns and operates the Trapp Family Lodge near Stowe, Vermont. The family has lived on the property since 1942 when they bought a 300-acre farm in the mountains.

Tune in to “The Untold Story of “The Sound of Music,’” a Diane Sawyer "20/20" special, tonight at 10 p.m. ET.