Durst allegedly confessed to being a serial killer on a hot mic to documentary filmmakers while he was going to the washroom.
When life spoils art: The Jinx, Robert Durst and the small problem of confessing to multiple killings
That interview never happened, however, because someone shot her at her Los Angeles home, showing no forced entry. This is the crime for which Durst is now being tried. The jury selection is due to start May 17. No one has ever been charged in Kathleen’s disappearance.Article content Now at least a person of interest, if not the prime suspect, Durst bolted to Texas, posing as a mute woman named Dorothy Ciner in order to keep his identity secret, but still rent a room. He reportedly kept that going until he once accidentally set his wig on fire while lighting a cigarette in a bar.
But Durst’s lawyer managed to convince a jury otherwise. The defence story was that Durst’s undiagnosed autism caused him to act like an automaton after the accidental shooting. When it came out in 2015, the documentary The Jinx came with an incredible backstory, putting it in a league with Tiger King as an improbable story of a possible murder, but the real climax was at the end.The filmmakers had shown Durst the “cadaver” note and compared it to a sample of his own handwriting. He acknowledged similarities. Even Beverly Hills was misspelled in the same way.