Robert Durst - Serial Killer or Victim?

[Palehorse]

I'm sure you guys have seen the stories within the media today, and perhaps some of you viewed HBO's "documentary" - "The Jinx"?

I shunned the damned documentary series until yesterday evening. With little to nothing to watch on pay TV, I settled on the damn thing last evening; using it as background while I surfed the net for awhile. But I began watching it as the series outlined the individuals he was suspected of killing, and interviewed him.

At first, he comes off intelligent and well spoken; but his eccentricities creep out from time-to-time. And then came a part wherein the interviewer asked him what he would say to his "missing and presumed dead" wife's mother if he could face her. "I am complicit in her disappearance".

Humm. . . I wondered. Was this a confession or was it him stating he felt he pushed his wife too far, and she either left him or ran into danger while in the process of leaving him?

I went to bed before the rest of the series, which HBO was running prior to the finale last evening, ran. But it was no surprise to see his face plastered on the front pages of almost every single media web-page this morning.

The guy is off kilter, that much is certain. He has never wanted for anything in his life, never had a job, in the sense that most of you reading this would consider the term anyway. His father, and now family, owns a whole bunch of high profile real estate in New York, Manhattan specifically and including the new World Trade building. He is a 71 year old multi-millionaire who once shot and killed his neighbor in Galveston TX, and dismembered him and threw him into Galveston Bay. And after spending 1.8 million on the 2 best attorneys in Texas, he was acquitted by a jury.

And a number of other individuals in his life have turned up dead, including the woman he is now being charged with executing in Cali.

I heard his "live microphone" mutterings to himself when he was in the head and thought he was alone. (Or did he?) And it could go either way in my opinion. He strikes me as a person that doesn't think like 80% of the rest of the population, and only partially like the other 20%. He seems to obtain amusement from the legal persecution he continues to undergo; once stealing a sub sandwich from a store, on camera, while he knew damn well he was being sought by law enforcement for questioning in a murder. . .

He has dressed like a woman, assumed a woman's identity, carried fake ID's, and even opened credit accounts under those assumed ID's. (All paid). When he was arrested for lifting the sandwich, he had 5k in his pockets, and another 37k in the car, along with a plethora of false Identification and clothing.

Now he is incarcerated and going to be charged with murder again. And I predict he will once again spend millions to defend himself and likely get off unscathed either because the authorities are going off half-cocked, or because he is capable of presenting a convincing case surrounding being persecuted by the law, or both. (Remember, the infamous L.A. prosecutors are going to handle the case, and we saw how well that went with OJ now didn't we?)

So, your thoughts? Is this guy a millionaire serial killer or is he a victim himself?

[Exterminator]

Serial killer.

I've always wondered how he got away with the murder in Texas.  Even if it was self-defense, as he claims, isn't dismembering a body and throwing it in the bay illegal?

[The Troll]

  It's the ability to buy justice in TEXAS.     

[Palehorse]

Serial killer.

I've always wondered how he got away with the murder in Texas.  Even if it was self-defense, as he claims, isn't dismembering a body and throwing it in the bay illegal?

Yes, desecration of a corpse at a bare minimum, along with obstruction of justice via the hiding of a corpse. 

  It's the ability to buy justice in TEXAS.     

Not just Texas. . . 


I'm of the opinion, after watching the series and doing a bit of research on the guy, that he is indeed a serial killer that has been successful in buying his way out of his crimes for several decades now.

Even his own siblings think he is guilty of everything he has been charged with, and after a lengthy law-suit they bought out his interest in 10 of those Manhattan skyscrapers for 65 million dollars. (But I believe he still is paid from the family trust fund).

[Y]

To me, he appears to be the worst...a psychopath/sociopath with tons of money.

[Palehorse]

And the verdict says he is indeed a killer! 

[Purplelady1040]

And the verdict says he is indeed a killer! 

He was nuts from the first time I saw him on TV.