‘The Jinx’ Documentary Series: Allegedly Unrepentant Wealthy Murderer

Robert and Kathie Durst's marriage reportedly soured after Durst made his wife undergo an abortion in 1976.Kathie underwent an abortion in 1976.Family and friends claimed the marriage turned into yelling and physical abuse by 1981.

Witnesses saw Durst pull Kathie's hair from a Christmas gathering. Records show she visited the hospital with injuries early the next year.

In June 1982, Kathie was on the road to nursing school when she...Kathie prepared to file for divorce.She went missing January 31, 1982. Durst waited five days before reporting her disappearance; Kathie's family believes he killed her.

Durst and his younger brother, Douglas, never bonded. Douglas took extra care around his brother. In 1994,...Douglas took over the family's real estate business, which angered Durst.Durst acted out by urinating in his brother's wastebaskets as a revenge move.

Depositions obtained by...Filmmakers of The Jinx showed that Douglas also...Douglas also hired bodyguards.He hired bodyguards to protect him from his estranged sibling after becoming the business's successor. Transcripts show negotiations that could settle millions for Robert Durst if he left the family.These transcripts detail negotiations that could settle millions for Robert Durst if he left the family.

Susan Berman and Durst became friends in college. Both came from wealthy backgrounds—she was an underworld figure, and he was the son of a real estate magnate. They stayed close over the years.Durst shared all his deepest secrets with Berman.Durst confided all his deepest secrets to Berman.

After divorcing several husbands and using up her trust fund, Berman asked Durst for two $25,000 payments around November 2000.

After getting the money, Berman allegedly told Durst investigators contacted her about Kathie's 1982 disappearance. A mutual friend told Durst Berman only wanted more money. Shortly before Christmas 2000, Berman was shot in the head at her home.

On September 28, 2001,...On September 28, 2001,...Durst arrived at his apartment. He found neighbor Morris Black waiting, watching television. Durst believed Black had sinister intentions. Durst asked Black where the gun he kept in his oven was.

Black allegedly pointed the gun at Durst, causing a fight that ended with Black's death.

Durst admitted to dismembering Black and moving his remains. However, the jury found Black's killing was self-defense, and Durst was acquitted.

After Susan Berman died, Durst married Debrah Lee Charatan and gave her all his money dealings. He fled to Galveston, TX, renting an apartment across the hall from Morris Black.

While living there, Durst wore a wig, dressed in women's clothes, and...Durst pretended to be a mute woman.He stopped speaking because...Durst answered.After Berman's death, Durst moved to Texas and wore a disguise.

My voice is very distinctive. People recognize my voice over the phone after years without speaking to me. I just could not imagine making my voice sound like a woman's.

In late November 2001, after Berman and Black died, police arrested Durst at a Pennsylvania Wegmans grocery store trying toDurst was captured after stealing a $5 sandwich in Pennsylvania.He also stole a $5 sandwich and a newspaper, plus a bandage for a shaving cut on his lip.

Durst carried $500 in his pockets and wore shabby clothes. The arrest warrant came from Black's death. However, Durst's new wife, Debrah Lee Charatan, posted his $300,000 bail, letting him disappear before reappearing in Pennsylvania.

The final scene ofThe Jinxshows Durst leaving an interview with filmmaker Jarecki and talking to himself while still wearing a microphone. The audioplayed out as follows

What did I do? Killed 'em all, of course.

Filmmakers gave the audio to police long before the miniseries' last episode aired. This let investigators reopen cases against Durst for Berman's 2000 death.

The miniseries' last momentThe JinxThe Jinx has audio of Durst allegedlyconfessing to his crimes. However, transcripts of the audio compiled by filmmakers show the two lines in the documentary—"Killed them all, of course," and "What the hell did I do?"—were spoken with severalother lines of dialogue between them.

Durst's lawyers hoped the documentary's editing and its effect on investigators would serve as proof of bias against their client during his 2019 trial for Berman's death.

Before the documentaryThe Jinx, filmmakers Jarecki and Smerling made a film based on a fictional story of Durst's life and alleged crimes calledAll Good Things.Jarecki and Smerling used a decade of interviews, court transcripts, and other Durst saga information to make the movie, starring Kirsten Dunst as Kathie and Ryan Gosling as Durst.

Before the film came out, Durst contacted Jarecki and Smerling about the fictionalized account of his life. After the duo showed Durst their film privately,he said it was "as accurate as anything out there" and agreed to the interviews that becameThe Jinx.

People close to Durst and Berman say the latterhelped cover upthe former's role in his wife Kathie's disappearance. Berman allegedly contacted New York police and pretended to be Kathie to move the investigation away from Durst.

She also followed Durst closely during his interviews with different outlets,dropping false information.To mislead the investigation further, she pushed ideas that Kathie used coke, had poor grades in her nursing program, and was an alcoholic with depression.

Police got a note on December 23, 2000, detailing Berman's death and where her body was in her Beverly Hills home. The note was named the "A cadaver note misspelling linked Durst to Berman's death."The Jinx" Documentary Series: Allegedly Unrepentant Wealthy Murderer shows the envelope misspelled Beverly as "Beverley."

Filmmakers showed Durst an envelope addressed to Berman, known to be his writing. The envelope had the same misspelling of Beverly. Durst admitted he could not tell which writing sample matched the known one, given the writing sample and a police 'cadaver note'.A handwriting expert determinedBoth samples came from the same person.

Investigators arrested Durst.They arrested him on March 14, 2015, the night before the final episode of 'The Jinx'.The JinxFilmmakers filmed in 2013.They handed over audio and other information from Durst's interviews to the police.The police used this information to interview possible witnesses, finding new leads from people Berman talked to about Durst's part in Kathie's disappearance.

Interviews with possible witnesses uncovered new leads from people Berman spoke with about Durst's role in Kathie's disappearance. This new information and Durst's testimony led investigators to arrest Durst for Berman's murder.

After filming for 'The Jinx',the miniseries finished, and it aired on HBO. During an interview with a Los Angeles prosecutor, Durst confessed. The real estate heir claimed he wasDurst told a Los Angeles prosecutor he was high on speed during filming. Durst made a confession during an interview with the prosecutor. The real estate scion claimed he was...while taking part in the documentary.The confession happened without Durst's lawyer present, during an interrogation about his arrest for Berman's death.

An interrogation about his arrest for Berman's death produced the confession. Durst made this confession without his lawyer present.