Robert Durst of HBO's "The Jinx" arrested in New Orleans

[pyonir]

haha that burping was pretty bad. that ending was incredible. you can just imagine if Jarecki pushed a little harder or played things differently, that bathroom tape might not exist

I thought Jarecki's best moment was when he held up the close up print of the city being misspelled and asked Durst to pick which one he had written...and Bob couldn't. :thumbsup:

 

[zinfamous]

I thought Jarecki's best moment was when he held up the close up print of the city being misspelled and asked Durst to pick which one he had written...and Bob couldn't. :thumbsup:

Yeah, that was some real Perry Mason shit right there.

 

[pyonir]

Yeah, that was some real Perry Mason shit right there.

LMAO :thumbsup:

 

[Ichinisan]

Wow! Saw the finale, but never watched the first 5 parts. Scheduled them to record.

 

[Ichinisan]

...one of the only good/great examples from the "informative murder porn" genre.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

...one of the only good/great examples from the "informative murder porn" genre.

Actually there is plenty of precedent. Check out The Staircase or Paradise Lost for examples.

 

[zinfamous]

Wow! Saw the finale, but never watched the first 5 parts. Scheduled them to record.

dude...why?

 

[Ichinisan]

dude...why?

TV news was airing stuff that spoils the climax, so I went ahead and watched the finale that was recorded.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

The radio was talking about this in the morning.

I guess the charged him with the murder of his wife and he got off.

But in an interview he just did, his phrasing in response to a questions hinted at more than one murder.

 

[zinfamous]

The radio was talking about this in the morning.

I guess the charged him with the murder of his wife and he got off.

But in an interview he just did, his phrasing in response to a questions hinted at more than one murder.

He was never charged with the murder of his wife, or his friend. He was charged and tried for the murder of Morris Black in Galveston. All this over the course of 20 years?

It is universally accepted that he killed all of these people (he admitted the last one), but there was never enough solid evidence to convict him.

His phrasing referenced the 3 murders that he has always been suspected of committing. This admission in the show came after he was caught in some rather damning evidence regarding the 2nd murder.

I think beyond asbergers/autism spectrum, dude has some form of dissociative disorder. The way he talks to himself, as if he is part of a conversation between 2 individuals. It's like Golum in Lord of the Rings.

 

[MongGrel]

NM.

 

[Anonemous]

Watched all 6 episodes in one sitting, it's kinda sad how he got away with the murder of Morris Black. Hacking the guy to bits while going back to grab the guy's head from the garbage bags is not self-defense. Dunno how they convinced a jury in Texas that he was being persecuted by a crazy DA from NY.

So reading the Newsweek article on this story, his high priced lawyers could argue he's either insane or was just muttering to himself which doesn't necessarily indicate a confession.

 

[Printer Bandit]

I think the police were bought off by his rich family.

How else do you explain him being free for 30 years.

 

[slayer202]

Actually there is plenty of precedent. Check out The Staircase or Paradise Lost for examples.

:thumbsup: and :thumbsup:

Also, The Thin Blue Line. And I didn't love it at the time, but I'm looking forward to revisiting Jarecki's other doc Capturing the Friedmans.

 

[Blanky]

I don't know who that is.

Me, neither, had never heard of him. I've heard of Fred Durst, though

 

[Newell Steamer]

He sounds like a total maniac; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Durst

Durst admitted to using a paring knife, two saws and an axe to dismember Black's body before dumping his remains in Galveston Bay.

In July 2014, Durst was arrested after turning himself in to police following an incident at a Houston CVS drugstore in which he allegedly exposed himself without provocation and urinated on a rack of candy. He then left the store and casually walked down the street.

 

[slayer202]

sounds like he's setting up for an insanity defense

 

[Blackjack200]

Maybe, but my extremely limited understanding of these things is that for an insanity plea to work, you need to convince the jury/judge that you didn't know that your actions were wrong, and doing things to conceal your deed (i.e. cutting up a body and disposing of it) shows that you knew it was wrong.

 

[Fritzo]

The downside is nobody is going to sign up for the next season of The Jinx.

"You want me to do what??? You know what happened to the last guy???"

 

[Ichinisan]

The "and now..." voice before the show started pronounced "jinx" differently than I always have. It sounded like the French name "Jean."

I Googled the pronunciation and it seems like it is supposed to be a hard J, the same way I've always pronounced it.

 

[Anonemous]

The downside is nobody is going to sign up for the next season of The Jinx.

"You want me to do what??? You know what happened to the last guy???"

I thought the title referred to Durst. In one of the episodes he told his wife to have an abortion. His reason being he would be a "jinx" to the child.

 

[zinfamous]

I thought the title referred to Durst. In one of the episodes he told his wife to have an abortion. His reason being he would be a "jinx" to the child.

come on, man....

 

[Ichinisan]

I thought the title referred to Durst. In one of the episodes he told his wife to have an abortion. His reason being he would be a "jinx" to the child.

He's a "jinx" because bad things happen to those around him.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I knew it would be good but NOT like that. He's screwed now.

I'm not so sure. I could see him saying that he went to the house of his friend and found the body and just sent the letter because he didn't want his friend to be left there like that.

There isn't really any motive for him to kill her and they have no other evidence, other than the recording (the guy is a little crazy so they might be able to explain what he said as just misc ramblings). I could see this guy walking again.

 

[Printer Bandit]

dude is like mc hammer