“The Jinx”: Robert Durst’s Confession
This is quite the fascinating clip of Robert Durst (no longer available) talking to himself after taping The Jinx. He forgets to take off his microphone when he goes to the bathroom. Can you imagine the faces of the producers when they go to edit the recording and find this? How I would have loved to been a fly on the wall! To say they were stunned would be an understatement!
This is a golden piece because its almost never that we get to hear a suspected murderer debrief with himself and let out his real thoughts after an interview! And that is exactly what we are hearing. His mind is running through everything that happened and he is having a “wholly shit” moment!
It would be hilarious, if three people hadn’t ended up dead!
Clearly Durst enjoys the cat and mouse game, and outsmarting other people, or he never would have done this interview!
I wish I had HBO so I could have seen this. Unfortunately, I don’t and didn’t see any of this show.
I find the very beginning of this clip the most revealing and damaging when Durst says, “There it is. You’re caught. You are right of course, but you can’t imagine.”
Ouch. I think that speaks volumes of his guilt and involvement.
But in the end when he says, “What the hell did I do?” and he replies, “Killed them all, of course.” Was he flippant or serious? The tone of his voice intrigues me here. Did he kill two out of three? Was someone else involved and hence he doesn’t feel responsible? I found that statement completely intriguing!
I’d like to watch more of him to see his behaviors to see if I can understand the meaning of that last statement better!
ROBERT DURST’S BLINKING: IS IT A TELL?
Robert Durst blinks a lot in the interviews and some have pointed out that its a sign of his lying. It’s a tell. But is it really?
The only way to know is to watch Durst talk–when we know he is telling the truth. When he tells the truth, he shouldn’t do it.
Does he pass this test? My answer to that question is no.
In this clip of him which is full of him squinting/blinking/shoulder shrugging, Durst says, “I did make mistakes.” That would be a true statement, correct?
When he says that, watch him. He does the tic. Again. So it doesn’t seem to support this is a tell. It supports that it is a behavioral tic.
I have only seen one person who had this tell in well over a decade of watching people, so be very cautious when you think a behavior like this is a tell. It probably is not. Blinking occurs for several reasons and you must rule out other reasons before you could ever say this is a clue to deception.