Andrew Jarecki, who produced and directed “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” — the 2015 documentary miniseries about the real estate scion, who was found guilty of first-degree murder — applauded Durst’s Friday murder conviction on Saturday.
In a statement to TheWrap, Jarecki said, “When we started investigating this story sixteen years ago, we had no idea we would discover evidence that would lead to this prosecution. Bob Durst had been suspected of three murders but never held accountable. In 2010 I interviewed him for over 20 hours for ‘The Jinx’ and he said many incriminating things. When we dug further into the story and found evidence that tied him to the murder of his best friend Susan Berman, we searched for a prosecutor we felt could handle this kind of complex case and found John Lewin, a cold case expert in the LA district attorney’s office and his team.
In a statement to TheWrap, Jarecki said, “When we started investigating this story sixteen years ago, we had no idea we would discover evidence that would lead to this prosecution. Bob Durst had been suspected of three murders but never held accountable. In 2010 I interviewed him for over 20 hours for ‘The Jinx’ and he said many incriminating things. When we dug further into the story and found evidence that tied him to the murder of his best friend Susan Berman, we searched for a prosecutor we felt could handle this kind of complex case and found John Lewin, a cold case expert in the LA district attorney’s office and his team.
- 9/18/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Real estate scion Robert Durst, who was featured in the HBO documentary “The Jinx,” was found guilty of first-degree murder by a Los Angeles jury on Friday.
Durst was charged with murder for the 2000 shooting death of his friend and confidant Susan Berman. During the lengthy trial — which was suspended in spring 2020 for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic — prosecutors argued that Durst killed Berman to prevent her from implicating him in the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack.
Durst was not present for the reading of Friday’s verdict, having been forced to isolate after exposure to Covid-19. Superior Court Judge Mark Windham allowed the reading to proceed in his absence, citing the need for expediency given the ongoing pandemic.
“I’m disappointed, but not in the fight we put up,” Durst’s attorney, Dick DeGuerin, told TheWrap Friday night. “We came in second in a two horse race.
Durst was charged with murder for the 2000 shooting death of his friend and confidant Susan Berman. During the lengthy trial — which was suspended in spring 2020 for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic — prosecutors argued that Durst killed Berman to prevent her from implicating him in the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack.
Durst was not present for the reading of Friday’s verdict, having been forced to isolate after exposure to Covid-19. Superior Court Judge Mark Windham allowed the reading to proceed in his absence, citing the need for expediency given the ongoing pandemic.
“I’m disappointed, but not in the fight we put up,” Durst’s attorney, Dick DeGuerin, told TheWrap Friday night. “We came in second in a two horse race.
- 9/17/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Robert Durst’s own brother thinks he wants to kill him.
Douglas Durst took the stand at Robert Durst’s murder trial on Monday, at one point testifying, “He’d like to murder me.”
The Durst brothers had a falling out in the 1990s when Douglas, who is roughly a year and a half younger than Robert, was appointed the primary manager of their family’s money after their father passed away in 1995. Douglas later bought Robert out for millions of dollars and said in court on Monday that he hadn’t seen his brother in 20 years.
Douglas said he was so fearful of his brother, that he came to California with a security detail.
“I have a fear that my brother has threatened to kill me, and I fear that he may have the means to do so,” Douglas said.
He also said that growing up, Robert treated him...
Douglas Durst took the stand at Robert Durst’s murder trial on Monday, at one point testifying, “He’d like to murder me.”
The Durst brothers had a falling out in the 1990s when Douglas, who is roughly a year and a half younger than Robert, was appointed the primary manager of their family’s money after their father passed away in 1995. Douglas later bought Robert out for millions of dollars and said in court on Monday that he hadn’t seen his brother in 20 years.
Douglas said he was so fearful of his brother, that he came to California with a security detail.
“I have a fear that my brother has threatened to kill me, and I fear that he may have the means to do so,” Douglas said.
He also said that growing up, Robert treated him...
- 6/29/2021
- by Daniel Goldblatt
- The Wrap
The trial of Robert Durst, the infamous murder suspect who was the focus of HBO’s acclaimed 2015 “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” documentary miniseries, began this week. Also on trial: “The Jinx.”
Durst, a 76-year-old millionaire heir to a New York real estate fortune, is on trial in Los Angeles for the murder of Susan Berman, who was found dead via a gunshot in the back of her head in late 2000. Los Angeles County prosecutors began presenting their case that Durst murdered Berman, his longtime friend, to 12 jurors in a trial that is expected to last up to five months.
It didn’t take long for “The Jinx,” which centered on three murders Durst has been suspected of since 1982 and featured interviews with the millionaire, to come up during the Los Angeles trial. Jurors were played the final clip of “The Jinx,” where Durst, presumably unaware his microphone was still on,...
Durst, a 76-year-old millionaire heir to a New York real estate fortune, is on trial in Los Angeles for the murder of Susan Berman, who was found dead via a gunshot in the back of her head in late 2000. Los Angeles County prosecutors began presenting their case that Durst murdered Berman, his longtime friend, to 12 jurors in a trial that is expected to last up to five months.
It didn’t take long for “The Jinx,” which centered on three murders Durst has been suspected of since 1982 and featured interviews with the millionaire, to come up during the Los Angeles trial. Jurors were played the final clip of “The Jinx,” where Durst, presumably unaware his microphone was still on,...
- 3/6/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
"There it is. You're caught!" It's been five years since HBO debuted The Jinx, a six-part documentary series from director Andrew Jarecki that introduced much of the world to New York City real estate heir and suspected murderer Robert Durst, on February 8, 2015. Not only would the success of the series essentially kickstart our current obsession with true crime TV, aided by the arrival of the Serial podcast the October prior, but by the time it was over, it would deliver one of the most jaw-dropping moments that the genre's ever seen, both before and since. We're talking, of course, about the moment Durst, who's suspected of murdering first wife Kathleen McCormack Durst, who...
- 2/8/2020
- E! Online
In a court document filed Christmas Eve and reviewed by TheWrap, lawyers for Robert Durst acknowledged he authored a 2000 note that led Beverly Hills police to the body of Susan Berman. The real estate heir has long denied writing the tip-off note and has also denied killing Berman, a longtime friend that served as his spokesperson after the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack.
While being interviewed in 2015 for HBO’s “The Jinx,” Durst said the note was something “only the killer could have written.” The note, written on a single sheet of spiral notebook paper, simply said “cadaver” and included an address. The documentary had portrayed Berman as knowing too much information about McCormack’s disappearance.
Durst faces trial for Berman’s murder in February.
Also Read: Robert Durst Murder Trial: La District Attorney Says 2015 Interview Statements Should Remain in Trial
In response to the latest development, Durst...
While being interviewed in 2015 for HBO’s “The Jinx,” Durst said the note was something “only the killer could have written.” The note, written on a single sheet of spiral notebook paper, simply said “cadaver” and included an address. The documentary had portrayed Berman as knowing too much information about McCormack’s disappearance.
Durst faces trial for Berman’s murder in February.
Also Read: Robert Durst Murder Trial: La District Attorney Says 2015 Interview Statements Should Remain in Trial
In response to the latest development, Durst...
- 1/1/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Join our newsletter to get more stories like this Kathie Durst went missing in 1982 but it was eighteen years before another murder leads detectives to look more closely at her millionaire husband, Robert Durst. Investigation Discovery is airing a two-part Murder Mystery special on this fascinating case. Kathleen McCormack was born in 1952 and met Robert Durst in 1971. He was nine years her senior, and had recently opened a health food store in Vermont. However, the couple soon moved to New York City, after Durst’s father put pressure on him to come and work for the large real […]
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- 1/22/2019
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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