That was crazy indeed, and the 2nd time he kept talking with mic on.

Unreal series. That ending was unbelievable and love how top notch hbo is and hope they do true crime stuff similar to this

The Jinx is in the discussion for greatest TV show of all time. That finale somehow topped the reveal of the penultimate episode, which seemed like an impossibility.

All,

Wow.

I feel kinda ripped off that was so short.

Also almost felt like was trolling them in the bathroom, that was near unbelievable!

Couple of interesting articles with stuff I didn't know previously:
http://m.ny.curbed.com/archives/2015...psychopath.php

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/02...referrer=&_r=0

That was the biggest blowup i've seen since that guy on the final table bubble a few years ago. I guess you can say it was a slightly -ev decision to participate in a mini series about yourself.

Wow! I am so happy I watched this series. Unbelievable.

All,

I think maybe he wanted to get arrested. Likes that part of the game. Likes torturing his family.

That was an incredible miniseries. It's hard to imagine a more chilling ending.

Anyone see this guy's other doc, 'Capturing the Friedmans'? Also very fascinating.

a couple of great tidbits from the times article:

“Before the disappearance of my sister-in-law, Bob had a series of Alaskan Malamutes, which is like a husky,” Douglas Durst said. “He had seven of them, and they all died, mysteriously, of different things, within six months of his owning them. All of them named Igor. We don’t know how they died, and what happened to their bodies.

“In retrospect, I now believe he was practicing killing and disposing his wife with those dogs.”

What led him to that conclusion, Douglas said, was that Robert turned the word “Igor” into a verb and inflected it with a menace: “When he was in jail in Pennsylvania, he was recorded saying, ‘I want to Igor Douglas.’"


also: He [Robert Durst] often spoke aloud to himself, a disconcerting practice that accelerated over the years.

Payoff was so great

Great series. Fav moment for me was when Durst said "California's a big state", while clearly trying to keep from laughing. It totally reminded me of Silence of the Lambs when Buffalo Bill was going through his mail, talking to Clarice, and he started laughing because he knew SHE knew. Really chilling stuff.

I feel the filmmakers also did a great job of starting slowly and making you think maybe he is just an eccentric and innocent guy... while slowly providing more info leading to the knockout revelations in episodes 5 and 6. Also the flashbacks were beautifully filmed.

For me, the best part of the series was that for the first few episodes you can think maybe he's not guilty, or wasn't responsible. Then when they find the letter, it instantly becomes a 100% chance he killed Susan Berman, and extremely likely all of them. It's as close to "red handed" as you can get without actually being caught red handed.

I seem to be in the minority in that I don't think he was actually confessing in the bathroom, and was more sarcastically saying what the interviewer was hoping he would say. I interpreted the entire thing as a mock interview in his mind, and how it would've played out if the interviewer had his way.

It's awesome that the son basically solved his own mom's murder by finding the letter. He must feel great from a closure standpoint after all that time, knowing he was directly responsible for the killer facing justice.

I also took a lot of the bathroom talk as a "what was I supposed to say" pep talk to himself. I still think he also had some commentary about how poorly he did as well that was fairly damning. I thought he was going to vomit on camera when Jarecki shows him that envelope. Then he references that in the bathroom too. Pretty hard to tap dance around that as anything other than a guilty guy knowing he got caught.

Most of what Jarecki does is a handwriting analysis that the police could (should?) have done already. Still, the Berman letter with the exact same misspelling makes him look guilty as hell to the layperson. I think you need a handwriting expert on the stand to make it stick in court. Looks like they could have gotten that with other publicly available documents.

I wonder how solid the letter is a piece of evidence, though. Berman's son finds it in her belongings - an opened envelope with the letter inside. Surely, a good lawyer could argue the chain of evidence is tainted and that anyone could have put the letter in that envelope?

Not that I believe that, but there is enough to raise reasonable doubt...

Durst admitted on camera that he wrote the envelope to Berman, so if it matches the cadaver note (which it clearly does) seems almost 100% he wrote both and seems like a slam dunk conviction, esp. combined with all the other circumstancial evidence.

Best he can argue imo is that cadaver note was written by someone else who had somehow seen letters he had sent to Susan, in an attempt to frame him.

But if a guy can get acquitted after admitting to killing a neighbor, dismembering the body, and tossing the body parts into the bay... I guess you can never say never.

Did they ever address why he was in LA when he was lying and saying he was in Spain?

I thought maybe him and the Son In Law to Susan might have been talking again. It seemed like he was willing to look the other way at one point in time when the money was promised to keep coming his way.

Really enjoyed the series. Feel like with this new news, it's a show that's viewership will grow exponentially in the next month or two compared to what it is now. I tell my friends this show was Serial the TV Series, but it actually accomplished what Serial couldn't.

I agree with some of the best parts people have described in earlier posts, and would also like to add the part where he calls his brother a pussy when being interviewed by the police. Just really random.

All,

Looks like the order of events/interviews in the show was moved around for dramatic effect: http://morningafter.gawker.com/what-...26885/+richjuz

Still awesome, though.

at first he didn't, though. when he was first shown the letter his initial response was "i don't remember writing that", then "it seems like the kind of letter i would have sent with a check." he says more than once "i don't remember writing that letter."

only after seeing the comparison with the cadaver note did he say "i definitely wrote that (letter), but not that (cadaver note)."

it'd be quite ironic if he gets locked up for this murder considering he 100% killed the Texas guy, 80-95% killed his wife, and there is a group of dangerous people with motive for the LA murder.

also this is hilarious
Robert Durst: From riches to allegedly peeing on candy

That's the thing. The investigations were totally cold when he reached out to Jarecki to do this documentary. Unless he wanted to get caught for some perverse reason, deciding to do this documentary was even crazier than killing three people.

Where can I watch this??

/European citizen

All,

Another interesting article re: the filmmakers and the license taken with timeline in the show.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...g-to-hide.html

That article has a link to this interview with the filmmakers: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/arts...cki/?referrer=

Rococo,


I really think he may be finding the whole situation fun right now.

I agree with that completely.