risk. which big risk? you re writing a note to the police, that only the killer could have written. and that all led to this climatic moment, probably the most stunning in true crime documentary history where durst stepped off camera and miniminiature muttered to himself on a live microphone. if you ve never seen this before, you have to watch. killed them all, of course. just stunning. robert durst was literally arrested the weekend of the premiere of the finale, where america heard durst utter those words. and joining me now is andrew directy, the hdirector and producer of the hbo film the jinx. that s exactly what the jury concluded, that durst killed them all. what is your reaction to this verdict? robert durst, guilty of
and i think he doesn t feel entirely happy unless he s putting himself at risk. and i think he s shown time and time again that he plays with the rules and puts himself in situations that could put himself or other people in jeopardy. so i think it was exciting for bob. i think he comes from this incredibly wealthy family and has spent his life in the shadow of a very powerful father, a successful brother, and i think this was an opportunity for him to say, hey, i ve probably done something better than all of you have done. i ve committed three murders over 30 years and gotten away with it. so i do think that people have a compulsion to confess. i think that you carry that around inside of you. and i think that s what bob was expressing when he agreed to sit down with me. in fact, volunteered to sit down with me. it s like the words wanted to come out. that was my sense of it when we finally saw that aha moment. and when you started making jinx, was any part of your motivation to h
millionaire real estate mogul robert durst, the subject of the hit hbo crime documentary, the jinx, is now a convicted killer. a los angeles jury found him guilty of first-degree murder for killing his best friend, susan berman, over 20 years ago. hours before she was set to talk to investigators about the mysterious disappearance of durst s first wife, kathy. cnn s jean casarez has the details. this was a highly unusual verdict, because robert durst was not in the courtroom he is in isolation because he s been exposed to covid. the person that drives him to court has contracted covid-19 and so because of that, he couldn t be in the courtroom. now, there was a big issue, because a defendant has a right to be in the courtroom when the verdict is read in his criminal trial. and so they looked at california case law and the judge determined that there are exceptions to that. and there was one here, he said,
of the doubt and i have to let him express himself. and for sure in this film, we let him talk tremendous amount from his perspective about what he remembers about his life. so he certainly had a chance to express all of that and perhaps express even more than what he or his lawyer would have liked. was there ever a moment where you were scared to be with robert durst? i mean, just scared that he knew who you were? well, with you know, bob is a very like a lot of people who commit complex and hard-to-solve crimes. he s extremely charming. when you re with bob, you feel like you re with a bright, engaging, funny, rwry, clever person, who s certainly well bred who has had a tremendous amount of life experience. you never feel that way in the moment. but after i showed that evidence, which was deep into
barren came from something gilberti found in 1982. every sunday night for about six months i collected bob durst s garbage from the south salem home and photographed and cataloged everything i found and i got a slip of paper. a slip of paper with a strange list. back in 2002, the first thing john did was to show it to tom brown. well, he looked at it and says i know where we re going. we are talking about the list they found was robert s handwriting and says shovel bridge. bridge. and that brought you here? yep. that is it. tell us why. show me. where s the bridge? it s actually about a mile and a half down this way. this is the bridge to nowhere. it was a bridge built to an island where housing would be constructed although no construction ever materialized, report durst would have been familiar with the bridge.