LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst is charged with one count of murder, but will have to defend himself in three killings at trial later this year in California.

Los Angeles prosecutors won a victory Tuesday in persuading a judge to allow jurors to hear that Durst killed a man in Galveston, Texas, in 2001, dismembered his body and tossed it out to sea.

Durst was acquitted of murder after testifying he shot Morris Black in self-defense, but prosecutors argued that Black's death and the killing of Susan Berman in Los Angeles in 2000 were both part of an effort to cover up...