A follow up to the 2015 true crime investigation “The Jinx” in which real estate heir Robert Durst was caught muttering “killed them all” into a hot mic.
When it premiered on HBO a decade ago, the true crime docuseries “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” stood out mainly because of Durst’s willingness to appear on camera. The wealthy New York real estate heir was suspected of killing three people: His first wife Kathleen McCormack in 1982; his close friend Susan Berman in 2000; and an elderly Texas neighbor Morris Black in 2001. At the time, he had only stood trial for the murder of Black and was acquitted.
Purveyors of true crime can be fueled by all kinds of conflicting motivations. Sincere curiosity sometimes curdles into exploitation, and gruesome tragedy is transformed into entertainment. With unsolved cases, there’s a tendency to play investigator. Jarecki isn’t immune to any of this. But notably missing in his latest effort is introspection about his own role in Durst’s fate.
One of those close friends is Nick Chavin, a singer-turned-advertising executive whose music genre of choice in his younger days was something called “country porn.” Jarecki asks him, “Did it bother you when you found out what did in Galveston?” Chavin replies: “Well, what isn’t in my mind is ‘Jesus Christ, he cut up Morris Black and got away with it.’ That just didn’t have any impact on me. I don’t have that same moral hatred of murder and murderers.
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