How much is this guy worth?

Pretty sure they said ~200 mm

For you who think hes innocent, what do YOU think on his bathroom "mumblings"? Just random?

Personally I cant decide if he just talked to himself like "im ****ed, yeh im very ****ed, they got me" or if he has like a split personality which it kinda sounded like because it was mostly back and forth between "why" and "this is how it is now".

While I hope they find a way to pin this on him for once and for all, amazingly the least likeable person in the series for me was Pirro.

She just seems like a standard political attorney and is, from my perspective, completely cringe inducing every time she speaks. Obv I know nothing about her other than how she was portrayed in this doc series so sample sizes and all.

I don't know of anyone at all who thinks he's innocent. I do think his bathroom mumblings can be plausibly interpreted as something other than an admission of guilt, though. The back and forth aspect, for instance, (given that he had just been interviewed) could be him doing a mock interview, kind of going over how it all looks to other people. Some of what he's saying came across as so disjointed to me that almost anything could be a plausible interpretation of it.

Thought they said his family was worth $800 million.

according to wiki, when he was arrested earlier this month, FBI said his net worth was $100m

he is also not sitting at home staring at the wall planning his next murder

he has flipped a couple of properties in NYC for multi-million dollar gains in the past couple of years

Yeh agreed, I doubt this is what brings him to prison, I think the letter is more likely or other **** that has come up recently during the airing of The Jinx.

I mean I would not be surprised if he knew the mic was on and sid what sounded like an admission of guilt just cause he know it wont hold up in court and he likes the thrill of almost getting caught, which is also prolly why he even agreed to The Jinx interview from the start, because from a legal standpoint I doubt anything good coulda come from the interview.

Finally caught up on this. Great show and very captivating. I heard the confession on the radio prior to watching, but it still had me glued to the screen.

In the call that Jarecki made to Durst's lawyer after he was arrested, when Jarecki intended to use their need for his footage/testimony as leverage...Jarecki said something like:
"we can get the footage, so long as...that's filed properly as evidence"

And while watching I was expecting to say "as long as....we get our 2nd interview with RD!"

So it makes sense that the timing is out here and the had already done the 2nd interview when that call was made.



It would be great to hear the audio for when they took off the mic from Durst after he exits the bathroom. It's possible he realised what had happened then, yet the filmmakers didn't for months! I'd imagine he had a gag/cough/burp as soon as he realised he still had the mic on.

watched an ep and a half on the plane. it was a good. now i'm stuck.

wasn't sure if based on real story or was fully fictional.

Um, it's not just based on a real story. It is a real story.

Question... In The Staircase (and to some degree The Jinx),

It's a documentary, you goof

^ how is one meant to know this when they've never heard of the show and watch it on the plane?

Because it looks like a doc?? Why would you think it's anything else?

It's one of those cases that would sound stupid if you made it up, which is why documentaries can be so great.

nope

you're entitled to a free attorney, anything above that is your own deal

lol I love how the microphone thing works on him TWICE. amazing.

Finished the series this weekend, what a fascinating documentary.

There is one thing I am still uncertain about. As soon as they compared the Susan Berman letter to the cadaver note, the case is solved. If they had Bob as the prime suspect in three different murders, one of which in you have a note that only the killer could have written, why did they never obtain samples of his handwriting and compare them against the cadaver note? Presumably that would yield the same result. In fact, I think the Susan Berman note would be somewhat redundant other than for the matching Beverley spelling.

Just finished this for the first time after never hearing about Durst or this show. Jesus, that might be the best show I've ever seen, and I ain't bad, before this it was The Wire or season 1 of True Detective.

I have never seen anything more fascinating than the final scene of episode 6.

That's a good question. I just can't believe the police or detectives missed that one.

My big question is I wonder what he did with his wife. I guess it was too long ago and she's probably gone, but she was buried out there somewhere or on the bottom of a lake. I googled it and bodies decompose in 8-12 years and this was 33 years ago, but I just wonder if he'll ever admit where he put her.

Only his bathroom mirror will ever know.

I'm watching this again so maybe it was answered, but why did he even send the cadaver note to the cops about that one woman in California? Like she'd be missing and someone would have searched the house before too long, I don't get why he wanted her found ASAP.

Last I heard he was in ill health waiting to be tried on gun charges in New Orleans. (the trial has been pushed back til January) Seems unlikely, but he has a flair for the dramatic.