How The Jinx Helped Catch Robert Durst

Andrew Jarecki’s six-part HBO docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, released in 2015 and available on HBO Max, dug into a pattern of deception that had allowed its subject to evade justice for decades. Jarecki first encountered the Durst story after directing the 2010 film All Good Things; Durst saw that film and later requested an interview, prompting the project.

The series is built from hundreds of hours of interviews and mixes archival footage and media reports about the disappearance of Kathleen McCormack and the death of Susan Berman. Despite substantial evidence suggesting Durst’s involvement, he repeatedly denied guilt, and viewers remained divided through the fifth episode.

Everything shifted in the final episode, when Jarecki confronted Durst with new evidence and recorded him, unaware he was still wearing a microphone after asking to use the bathroom. The captured line, “What the hell did I do?

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