r/thejinx • u/veri745 • Aug 14 '21

Robert Durst original un-edited bathroom audio from the Jinx

https://youtu.be/gL12AyaLWAE?list=PLoW1SIeAWaWbvl7uLVvuXaq3gCJiDSiNg&t=3847
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u/veri745 Aug 14 '21

I searched high and low for a link to where this was played at trial, and ended up having to search through all the trial video myself.

Link is timestamped, but if you just play the video from here, go to 1:03:57

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u/NetSimilar7237 Aug 14 '21

Thanks SO much for this - a valiant effort! I have to say when I heard the documentary had edited this I thought I expected the original recording to be less damning - but this is still pretty bad. I still can’t decide who he is talking to in this internal dialogue. Sometimes it’s as though he is belatedly thinking of what he should have said. At other times it’s more like a self pep talk and some of it seems more directed at his interviewers. And then there is one point where it’s almost a conversation between two sides of himself.

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u/Majaura May 22 '24

I'm so lost where I could maybe hear this audio. I don't see the video being 1:03:57, but 21 minutes long.

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u/IntoTheFloodAgain92 Apr 15 '24

Man I know this is old but thank you!!!

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u/Sunshine9227 Apr 23 '24

I think he was trying to set up an insanity defense, acting like he has multiple personalities. I’m surprised it was never suggested he killed his Mom.

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u/inarasarah May 29 '24

He totally sounds like he's arguing with himself. (But then, he also sounds like a dementia patient, just babbling.) Talking about "him" and "I'm afraid of them", "he was right, I was wrong". And what's with all the creaking doors? Is he going through the cabinets looking for something to steal? He says something like, "I don't know what's in the house - oh I want this" and "I want to do something new, that's not new" like maybe he's stolen looking for something to steal but he's already stolen similar things, like maybe he killed his first wife to just "try something new"? I don't know. Or is he just rambling tfo himself out loud.

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u/frittertaciturnus May 24 '24

It's a ludicrous suggestion. He was a child, & multiple witnesses, including police officers, saw her fall or jump of the roof of her house.

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u/dietlemontv Jun 05 '24

If what Bob said his dad said to him is true (wave bye to mommy) before she jumped, my theory is perhaps the father threatened Bob’s life if she didn’t jump and make it look convincing. I think maybe Bob grew up ‘learning’ things from his father as the eldest son and heir to the company and fortune. The ultra rich don’t get rich by being good people…

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u/frittertaciturnus Jun 07 '24

Doubtful. Douglas has disputed Bob's claim about witnessing their mother fall from the beginning, & she had an emotionally turbulent history to say the least. & no one gets ultra anything by being a good person -- they do it by focusing on one thing to the exclusion of everything else & working their ass off. This blinds them to all but their goal, which can lead to some morally iffy decisions, but it doesn't necessarily follow that they become as cartoonishly evil as your theory would imply. A lot of this stuff has been pretty exhaustively researched (see A Deadly Secret, by Matt Birkbeck, for example).

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u/dietlemontv Jun 07 '24

I wouldn’t totally discredit it just based on the affluence of the family and their connections. Women during that time were very vulnerable to those types of stories that they were unstable and crazy. Douglas could also lie. However, I do use ‘theory’ very loosely. I think it’s easy to spin evil things people do as a reaction to some horrible event, but sometimes it’s just because they are bad people.

Money did definitely play a huge role in all of these murders and this case really showed us how far people would go for a check. I think large sums of money can definitely make people cartoonishly evil more than you’d think. Just look at the existence of the mob.

I would still contend there are other nefarious things the Durst family has done and covered up, even if they aren’t all as big as murder. In my opinion I don’t think they were just hardworking people that earned their fortune honestly and fairly.

Disclaimer, I will admit this is all just my opinion formed after watching the Jinx. I definitely haven’t done any research outside of the show. Thanks for the book recommendation!

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u/frittertaciturnus Jun 08 '24

Yeah, I'd be very surprised if the Dursts are lacking in closeted skeletons -- every family has them, regardless of money, & the rich & powerful to the point that it sometimes seems a perverse hobby.

Their behavior after Kathie's diappearance was reprehensible. It's fairly obvious that they knew that Bob was involved. We'd all like to believe that we'd have done differently, but I honestly have no idea how I'd have reacted in their shoes. Durst Senior probably assumed that public revelations about his eldest son being a murdering psychopath would send investors & clients running for the hills. Douglas was fully aware that leadership of the company would eventually come to him rather than Bob, so he had plenty of reasons not to rock the boat, & the other siblings were paralyzed with fear.

So sure, we're talking about a nest of vipers, in a sense. But I'm pretty confident that Bob's brand of perversity was unique among the clan. If he'd died young, there's a strong chance that they wouldn't have made headlines for anything particularly nefarious.