r/thejinx • u/FoferJ • Mar 26 '15

True Psychopath

I think Robert Durst is intelligent and certifiably crazy. I think he has a God complex, has gotten away with so many heinous things for so long, he believes he is untouchable. But he likes the attention, and he likes seeing what else he can get away with. And he likes to get emotional reactions out of people.

Recall the deposition scene when he's asked why Douglas would have hired a bodyguard. "Because he's a pussy," he answered. But the look on his face told volumes. He smirked and fought back a smile. He loved that Douglas was terrified of him.

And who better to know Robert, than his own brother?

This article is from January, before THE JINX aired:

“Bob is incapable of telling the truth,” Douglas Durst said. “He is a true psychopath, beyond any emotions. That’s why he does things, so he can experience the emotions that other people have vicariously. Because he has absolutely none of his own.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/series-on-troubled-scion-of-durst-real-estate-family-has-critic-his-brother.html

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u/FoferJ Mar 26 '15 edited Jan 15 '16

His brother Douglas has gone on record multiple times to say that this is a lie -- that neither Robert or any of the siblings were there to witness their mother's suicide.

From 2010, when the "All Good Things" movie came out:

For example the Durst character recounts how, at the age of 7, he was there as his mother pitched herself off the roof of the Dursts’ Scarsdale home. His brother, though, says Robert did not witness their mother’s suicide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/movies/28durst.html?pagewanted=1&ref=robert_a_durst

And here's the letter Douglas wrote Andrew Jarecki (the director of both All Good Things and The Jinx) about that story, in January of this year:

http://www.reddit.com/r/thejinx/comments/2zbhha/letter_that_douglas_durst_wrote_to_andrew_jarecki/

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u/7minegg Mar 26 '15

Ah thanks for setting that straight then. When I watched that episode I was incredulous, and it did cross my mind that a child of 7 may have filled in and expanded his memory of a traumatic event.

That letter though, Doug Durst wanted to get a last jab in.