Hello again friends today I wanted to do a rewiev on mini-series documentary called The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.

First of all I would like to say a couple of words about Robert Durst because I'm sure that not everyone knows who he is and then I'll list the deaths he was involved in.  Robert Durst was born on April 12, 1943  as a son of New York City real estate mogul Seymour Durst. Robert Durst claimed that at the age of seven his father walked him to a window where he saw his mother on the roof of the family's home. After that she fell or jumped from the roof and died. Psychiatrist's report on ten-year old Robert Durst mentioned "personality decomposition and possibly even schizophrenia". He earned a bachelor's degree in Economics in 1965 from Lehigh University and he returned to New York in 1969 and started working in his father's business. He got married to Kathleen McCormack in 1973.She was in her final year at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and intended to become a pediatrician when she went missing in January 31, 1982. She or her body was never found. On December 24, 2000, Durst's longtime friend, Susan Berman, who has facilitated Durst's public alibi after Kathie's disappearance, was found murdered execution-style in her Benedict Canyon house in California. Durst has been tipped off to the re-opened investigation into his wife's disappearance on October 31, 2000, and immediately began planning for life as a fugitive. He moved to Galveston, Texas in 2000, lived in a boarding house, and began posing as a woman to avoid police inquiries. On October 9, 2001, Durst was arrested in Galveston shortly after body parts of his neighbor, Morris Black, were found floating in Galveston Bay. He missed a court hearing on October 16 and a warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of bail jumping. On November 30, 2001, he was caught in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at a Wegmans supermarket, after trying to shoplift a chicken salad sandwich even though he had $500 cash in his pocket. A police search of his rented car and found $37,000 in cash, two guns, marijuana, and Black's driver's license. In the trial he claimed self-defense. He admitted that he disposed Black's body but he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which the defense argued explain his behavior. The jury acquitted him of murder. In 2004, Durst pleaded guilty to two counts bail jumping and one count of evidence tampering. He was paroled in 2005.

Documentary is made in early 2015 and it consists of a review of all the three mentioned "events".
It's high quality production and it's dramatized in the best possible way. There are interviews with a
lot of people who worked in police and who participated in the arrest, trial, prosecution of Durst. And there are interviews with journalists, who have followed and reported on these events, friends of Durst's first wife, recordings of phone conversations Durst had with his second wife from jail, recordings of the trial and there are two interviews with Durst himself. Witch is the highlight of the documentary I would say.

I don't want to spoil anything important so I'm going to stop here. If you enjoy documentaries with the addition of mysteries and murders definitely watch this mini series. I was fascinated by it and I watched all 6 episodes in one day. What scares me a bit is the fact that I liked Robert Durst and he is a very fascinating person to me and felt certain amount of affection for him so I was a little sad in the end.


Anyways if you did whach this series let me know what did you think about it in the comments.


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