The series investigates the unsolved 1982 disappearance of Durst’s wife Kathie, the 2000 execution-style killing of writer Susan Berman, and the 2001 death and dismemberment of Durst’s neighbor Morris Black in Galveston, Texas. Durst was suspected of involvement in the first two murders and confessed to the third, but claimed self defense and was acquitted at trial. The series incorporates a wide array of existing media including news footage, security footage, police evidence, and archival interviews, combined with footage shot by Jarecki. It is composed of contemporary interviews, visual reenactments (some of which were shot at Jarecki’s upstate New York home),[6] and self-reflexive footage of Jarecki’s film-making process and odd working relationship with Durst. Its complex editing style and narrative construction emphasize the contradictions within both Durst’s life and the bizarre and grisly murders he committed.The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst Season 1 Download
During the conclusion of the fifth episode, Sareb Kaufman, Berman’s stepson, contacts the filmmakers asking them to review material that was left by Berman after her murder. In it, he highlights an envelope from Durst to Berman sent in March 1999: the envelope’s block letter handwriting matches and contains the same “Beverley [sic] Hills” misspelling as an anonymous envelope sent to police in December 2000 to alert them to Berman’s murder. The filmmakers, shocked by the revelation, place both envelopes in a safety deposit box, and decide to get a second interview from Durst.In the sixth and final episode, the filmmakers visit a forensic document examiner. After analyzing both envelopes and other documents in Durst’s block letter writing, he states that the two writings have characteristics that can come from “one person, and only one person”. Jarecki attempts to get a second interview with Durst, who suddenly becomes evasive and uninterested in a follow-up. At one point he claims to be in Spain, but Kaufman says that Durst told him he was in Los Angeles. After Durst is arrested for violating a restraining order filed by his brother Douglas,[7] Jarecki convinces Durst to conduct a second interview.