Robert Durst, Subject of ‘The Jinx,’ Admits Writing Key Note in Murder Case

Why is this news? Again.please, because everytime this comes up I forget. Is the NYT aspiring to replace the Post as Geraldo Rivera's favorite paper?

Note to self: Do not associate with crazy violent people, no matter how wealthy they are.

Mr. Durst: here’s your defense: Say it’s all a witch hunt Insist there is no evidence Insist you’re not getting your right to “due process” Send out up to a hundred tweets a day insulting anyone who suggests you might be guilty Say over and over: “Where’s the evidence?” Act really outraged Refuse to cooperate with the court It’s pretty much certain that if you do this, you’ll be acquitted. Hey, it’s 2020 in America!

In other news, the sky is still blue.

Those eyes...(shudder)

What is a "personal manager"? Why would the murder victim (or anyone) have such a person, and how would she pay for him? Who are these people, and why should anyone care?

These accusations are a hoax, fake, a witch-hunt. Poor fellow keeps ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time with cadavers that need to be dealt with and, given these difficult and trying circumstances, he always conducts himself like a high class gentleman. Of course.

Durst has the best criminal lawyer in the world, but he ain’t cheap.

Robert Durst is, and always has been, proof that with enough money you can get away with murder, again and again and again.

He enjoys the game. Sick.

Durst lied about the murder of his wife. Then he lied about the murder of his Galveston neighbor. And then he lied about the murder of his friend, Susan Berman. "Judge" Jeanine Pinhead helped him escape justice in the first two murders. Perhaps she can help him in the third?

NewYear's Eve, 2019 - Sat here with the rescued shelter half Aussie cow dog/half Aussie shepherd - a tough split personality for a doggie to care about cattle AND sheep. It'll be a year February. He's coming around from being saved from a brutal background. This quiet moment got me thinking when I read this piece how much I would love a year in 2020 without hate, killing, wars, bad politics, scientific rejection. In other words, some peace.

Maybe he should start a Stay Salty t-shirt company and kiss up to Trump. He’ll probably be made secretary of something or other. Looks the part.

Sounds like exactly the kind of guy the current administration would want working in the White House.

My goodness, Robert Durst seems accident prone.

DeGeurin, like Dershowitz, is why lawyers are hated. Lots of talk about how their clients deserve representation—true enough—but in the end they only lie and subvert justice by making justice a game of winning. Disgusting.

This man simply ceases to exist unless he has the glare of the media spotlight on him. Enough already. At this point, who even cares anymore? I know I don't.

With the twists and turns this case has taken part of me is expecting another few months to pass and he's been pardoned and made Secretary of Commerce.

IDk exactly how but when Durst was living in hiding as a woman around Houston, he killed and man, his neighbor, cut up his body and dumped it in a bay. yada yada yada he got arrested charged and tried for it. His lawyer, this same guy I think, sold the jury a story of accidental homicide and fear of not being believed to excuse the disposal of the body. The jury bought it. He got off. My question here is what did the butchering work look like on that body? Did it seem like someone who did it before had done it? The answer may lead authorities to Mrs. Durst gravesite.

Attorneys for someone like Durst are nothing more than paid purveyors of lies. Only in a broken system are such attempts to subvert justice accepted as normal --- and well compensated too. It's sick, really, when you think about it.

Wealth ushers in Implausible deniability. Hutzpah or sociopathy?

The audacity of evil, much like the banality of same, is astonishing in the Durst defense. The Trump defense shares this childish argument: "it could be true! " which confounds common sense and blatant evidence. The burden of proof may be necessary but it mustn't violate all reason while embracing far-fetched one-in-a-trillion coincidence. Trump strong armed Zelensky with all the double talk befitting a mobster o0n a tapped line...and Durst surely killed his wife, the guy he alleges attacked him in Galveston and Berman. BTW - OJ did it.

For goodness sake, would someone just lock this guy up and throw away the key?

Raskolnikov, the fictional protagonist in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, kills his first victim in cold blood for greed, his second in hot blood, by necessity and spends the rest of his miserable life, like a moth to a flame, flirting and courting disaster with the prosecutor who is hunting him. Robert Durst exhibits the same pathology. He cannot help himself. He must incriminate himself even as he denies his bloody crimes. He killed because he could and I suspect because nothing in his rich and spoiled life meant anything to him. He had earned none of it and none of it thrilled him anymore. In "The Jinx" his strangely hypnotic voice and body tics pull you into his world. He is funny, self deprecating, intelligent and mesmerizing. The jury who listened to him talk calmly about dismembering Morris Black were obviously in thrall. Somehow, it all made sense. Besides, he wasn't charged with dismemberment, was he? And so it went. Money bought him the best lawyers who ensured he never had to pay for his crimes. And yet, he could not leave it alone. He had to tempt fate and walk right into the trap set for him in "The Jinx", whispering to himself at the very end, "What did I do? Killed them all, of course." Sometimes, as when he's whispering like that, it seems like he's talking to another version of himself - the one who does the killing, the one he has to protect, but also to betray. It's horrible. It's fascinating. Raskolnikov in the flesh.

It defies logic that anyone, upon discovering a dead body — not freshly dead, but cold — would not call the police immediately. Even if only for self protection. Why take the time to write a note to the police, when you could phone in an anonymous tip? There is no way Durst’s crazy story would convince anyone, much less a jury. I often wonder how defense attorneys, working for clients like Durst, live with themselves.

Not to worry, #45 will pardon him the day the trial begins.

The New York real estate business produces the most peculiar people.

"Asked about...statements by his client, Mr DeGuerin replied, "He said a lot of things that I don't think are correct". Yeah, I bet you wish you could get him to shut his mouth!!