![]() The director Andrew Jarecki deliberately kept viewers guessing as to what Durst might reveal or what other new evidence he had discovered. Week by week for six weeks viewers had been drip-fed clues and context allowing them to turn detective in a real-life crime. Hours before the final episode was broadcast, Durst was arrested by FBI agents in a New Orleans hotel and extradited to California to face a first-degree murder charge. As well as the murder of Susan Berman, he was also suspected of having murdered his wife Kathie in 1982.īut when he decided to tell his side of the bizarre story in The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, he made a fatal move when he apparently mumbled a confession to murder during a comfort break in the middle of filming, while still wearing a live microphone. “Well, not on me,” Durst responded calmly, before making a telephone call to arrange delivery of the cash.ĭurst belonged to one of New York’s wealthiest families, a multi-billionaire dynasty responsible for much of Manhattan’s world-famous skyline. “Do you have $250,000?” the officer asked. ![]() Arrested in 2001 for the murder and dismemberment of an elderly neighbour in Galveston, Texas, Durst – who had been living in a rundown $300-a-month rented room disguised as a mute woman – was told by a detective that bail had been set at six figures.
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