re: The Jinx- new HBO miniseries

I've never seen someone so guilty in my entire life. He makes OJ look innocent.

Wow

Robert Durst is obviously a sociopath. Other people are not people to him; the rest of us might as well be roaches in his eyes.

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Getting caught up right now. Man, that whole damn family was a bunch of cray crays

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After getting through just the first 2 episodes, I have some thoughts, which may be completely obvious to everybody else.

Tell me if I'm being a wacky conspiracy theorist....












Does anybody else think that the disappearance/death of Durst's wife in 1982 goes above and beyond Robert Durst himself, in order to protect the family's interests ($$$$$) as a whole?

I think there was no way the Durst family was going to let the wife and her "average" family get rich from divorcing Robert.

I think that very well could be, or very likely is, the case. Such as, the father and brothers paying off and/or threatening officials from the bottom to the very top to keep this hush hush and off the books.

-if the family is so rich, why is Robert's wife taking a freaking train (in the middle of the nigth) and why do they share one single car? If I was one of the richest families in NYC, my people have multiple cars and drivers at their disposal whenever needed.

-the doorman at the hotel was definitely paid off and the NY detective interviewed in episode two was in on it.

-as crazy as Robert Durst is, he may have only been a small piece to the puzzle and not the true shot caller. Saying that, I don't want to excuse his actions either.

I'm sure I'll have other thoughts later as I catch up.

Given how quick they were to tell her friends and family that they wanted nothing to do with a search for her, I think they were at least complicit to Bob in knowing what he was/what he probably did.

I don't think your theory would be out of order either.

Yep wife and I are so confused... Is this whole show a secret to solve the case? Now it's like they are out for him, trying to do the cops job.

I think it's just as simple as it's an expose on what the cops couldn't get done for various reasons. How easy it can be to potentially get away with murder when you have the means to do so. Basically a trial in the court of public opinion.

Not only that but his family seems to have no issue with that, enables it.

Wow. The letter and misspelling of "Beverly".

I couldn't promise if I was her child I wouldn't have killed him myself.

Has the one Durst nephew actually "broken ranks" by formally appearing?

I'm more and more speechless after each episode. Part of me is thinking that the family may be responsible for the deaths, possibly at Robert's request. But the other part thinks Bob is just a serial killer. Parent issues, he called his mother mommy when describing the night of her suicide (which was all sorts of batshit crazy), call his father Seymour most of the time and obviously doesn't have a good opinion of him, and hates his little brother that "stole" his future. The entire family seem like sociopaths. Doug is basically Bob but has the approval to keep him in line.

Bob is obviously going to call it quits/stop saying anything after this run though. Ashame because I think they were very close to having him implicate himself to a point that even he couldn't snivel his way out of. Jesus this is a crazy ride.