This Correction Is The Best Thing to Come Out of Robert Durst’s Arrest

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While reporting on the arrest of Robert Durst, the subject of HBO’s documentary “The Jinx,” the Associated Press committed a wonderful error by confusing the creepy real-estate millionaire for the frontman of Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst.