Police were probing a link between murder suspect Robert Durst and the cold case of a college student who vanished 44 years ago . Lynne Schulze , 18 , vanished in Middlebury , Vermont in 1971 , when Durst , owned a health food store in town called All Good Things . Real estate scion Durst , who is awaiting extradition to California to face a murder . charge for the 2000 execution-style killing of his friend Susan Berman , was denied bail on Monday in New Orleans . 'We have been aware of this connection for several years and have been working with various outside agencies as we follow this lead , ' police said in a statement , adding they were releasing no further details . Vermont police confirmed this week that they were looking into a link between Lynne Schulze , who vanished in Middlebury in 1971 ( left ) and Robert Durst ( pictured last week ) , who owned a health food store in town at the time . The missing college student was the latest suspicious case to be linked to Durst who has also been dogged by questions about his first wife 's disappearance in New York . Miss Schulze , who was a freshman at Middlebury College , was last across the street from Durst 's store and the Vermont bus station around 2pm on December 10 , 1971 , the Burlington Free Press reported . At 12.30pm , she was seen outside All Good Things , eating dried prunes that she had bought inside . The Schulze case had been reopened in 1992 but police would not say why . Durst was being looked at in connection with five deaths or disappearances . Two women disappeared in California , his first wife vanished in New York , another woman went missing in Texas and now the latest , a teen college student in Vermont . Durst , who recently featured in the HBO documentary 'The Jinx : . The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst , ' must remain in Louisiana . on weapons charges until his next court date on April 2 , . Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell ruled , finding him a likely . flight risk and a potential danger to others . Durst 's lawyer , Dick DeGuerin , did not seek bail but argued . his client 's arrest and the search of his hotel room earlier . this month in New Orleans were improper , and that investigators . wrongly interviewed him without counsel present . Durst 's attorneys want to expedite his extradition to Los . Angeles County , where he has been charged with the 2000 murder . of longtime friend Susan Berman and could face the death . penalty . The HBO documentary broadcast Durst being presented with . evidence his handwriting appeared to match that of Berman 's . likely killer . The 71-year-old Durst 's voice was subsequently captured on a. microphone saying that he had 'killed them all . ' Long a suspect in the disappearance of his wife , Kathleen . Durst , in 1982 in New York , Durst was acquitted in the . dismemberment killing of his neighbor in Texas in 2003 . The final HBO episode aired one day after Durst 's arrest at . a New Orleans hotel , where he was staying under an alias and had . over $ 42,000 in cash , a revolver , marijuana and a latex mask . that could fit over his neck and head with salt and pepper hair , authorities have said . FBI agents arrested Durst over fears he would flee the . country , the agency has said . Durst , long estranged from his powerful family with its . major New York real estate holdings , appeared in court on Monday . with his head shaved , revealing a long scar on the right side of . his head . He was being held in a prison psych ward in New Orleans where officials have deemed him a suicide risk . James O'Hern , an investigator for the local district . attorney 's office , testified that authorities tracked Durst down . after he placed two calls from a phone at the hotel to the . voicemail on his personal phone . Also in his room was a scribbled tracking number for a. package that authorities later seized , which contained $ 117,000 , . O'Hern said . Former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro , . who reopened an investigation in 2000 into the disappearance of . Durst 's wife , was also in court . Durst 's attorney asked her to be removed from the courtroom . as a potential witness . Cantrell allowed Pirro , now a Fox News . host , to stay . Murder suspect Robert Durst is seen with a newly-shaved head as he sits in a hearing in this court sketch in New Orleans , Louisiana on Monday . He was charged last week with the first-degree murder of his friend , Susan Berman in 2000 .
Middlebury police in Vermont were probing a link between Robert Durst , a student who vanished in 1971 , and Durst , who owned a store in town . Durst was denied bail in New Orleans on Monday after judge deemed him a flight risk and potential danger to others .