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The Jinx- The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst -... -

Essential viewing. 10/10. But be warned—you will never look at a bowl of chicken wings or a burping sound the same way again.

In the pantheon of true crime documentaries, few have achieved the cultural impact, narrative tension, or real-world legal consequence of Andrew Jarecki’s 2015 HBO series, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst . It sits alongside Making a Murderer and The Staircase as a landmark of the genre, but with one crucial distinction: unlike those series, The Jinx captured its subject—billionaire real estate heir Robert Durst— confessing to murder on a live microphone during the final interview. The Jinx- The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst -...

Durst’s legal team tried everything—including arguing that the HBO microphone recording was illegal under wiretapping laws. The judge disagreed. Essential viewing

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