Robert Durst
‘The Jinx’ Finally Explains Mystery of Robert Durst Arrest One Day Before TV Confession
For anyone who needed a refresher on The Jinx, the follow-up series to the 2015 true-crime phenomenon that led to the arrest of Robert Durst did just that with its first episode. Except it delved deeper — much deeper — when it took the audience behind the curtain of the murder case against Durst to […]
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Where to Stream ‘The Jinx: Part Two’ Online
Nine years after the docuseries that revealed a surprise confession from convicted murderer Robert Durst, a new six-part sequel premieres tonight with even more compelling details.
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‘The Jinx’ Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki Says Despite True-Crime Boom Robert Durst “Is Kind of a Unicorn”
Since HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst aired in 2015, Durst, who was arrested shortly before the docuseries’ shocking finale, was convicted of murder in 2021 before dying months later. In that time, true-crime projects have proliferated in the wake of hits like The Jinx and contemporary docuseries Making a Murderer, […]
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‘The Jinx — Part Two’ Review: HBO’s Robert Durst Doc Sequel Compels, Despite First Part’s Long Shadow
Andrew Jarecki and company follow up their 2015 documentary, which featured a surprise Robert Durst confession, by chronicling the real estate mogul's latest murder trial.
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‘The Jinx’ Filmmakers Revisit That Robert Durst Confession: “We Screamed”
“Killed them all, of course.” Those five words were spoken by Robert Durst when the New York real estate heir, who was still mic’d, walked to the bathroom after completing his interviews for the HBO true-crime docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Durst had been suspected of killing his close friend Susan […]
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‘The Jinx — Part Two’ Revisits Bombshell Robert Durst Hot Mic Confession
Robert Durst is back as an HBO subject with the follow-up to the bombshell 2015 docuseries The Jinx. The Jinx — Part Two, which is coming April 21 and nearly a decade after the first installment, is a six-episode continuation of Andrew Jarecki’s Emmy-winning docuseries, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, that […]
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Robert Durst, Real-Estate Scion Convicted of Murder, Dies at 78
Robert Durst, the wealthy New York real estate heir and failed fugitive dogged for decades with suspicion in the disappearance and deaths of those around him before he was convicted last year of killing his best friend, has died. He was 78. Durst died of natural causes Monday in a hospital outside the California prison […]
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Robert Durst Indicted in 1982 Murder of Wife Kathie Durst
Robert Durst was indicted Monday for murder in the death of his first wife, Kathie Durst, whose disappearance nearly four decades ago has long shadowed the incarcerated millionaire, contributing to his increasingly bizarre and violent behavior and leading to an infamous on-camera confession. A grand jury in the New York City suburbs returned the second-degree […]
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Robert Durst Charged With Murder in Disappearance of Wife Kathie Durst
Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged in suburban New York City with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982, authorities confirmed Friday. A state police investigator filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday at a town court in Lewisboro, New York, accusing Durst of second-degree murder. The action […]
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‘Jinx’ Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki Calls Robert Durst Conviction “Very Gratifying”
As jaw-dropping as Robert Durst’s “killed them all” confession at the end of HBO docuseries The Jinx was six years ago, the filmmaker behind the award-winning show says he wasn’t shocked when Durst was convicted Friday for the murder of his best friend Susan Berman. “I can’t say I was surprised because if you watch […]
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