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The Jinx Part Two (Sky Documentaries)
Here's a useful life tip. If you are hoping to get away with multiple murders, don't go on television and accidentally confess. It really won't end well.
U.S. property mogul Robert Durst killed his wife Kathie in 1982. He murdered his best friend Susan Berman in 2000, and dismembered elderly neighbour Morris Black the following year.
And he might have eluded justice entirely if not for the 2015 miniseries The Jinx.
It was The Jinx that uncovered a link between Durst and a letter — marked 'Cadaver' — revealing the location of Berman's body. And it was in the final episode of the six-part series that Durst confessed.
The original series is credited with inspiring the current fashion for real-life crime TV, and this sequel is just as gripping as the original
Filmmakers resume the investigation into Robert Durst's life and death in this continuation of the Emmy-winning documentary
Interviewed by director Andrew Jarecki, Durst broke off to visit the bathroom. Still wearing a microphone, he muttered to himself: 'There it is. You're caught. Killed 'em all, of course.'
The Jinx Part Two is the story of how The Jinx felt Durst's collar. As New York journalist Charles Bagli noted in yesterday's opening
