Is True Crime Jinxed?

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🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We revisit Bob's conversation with filmmaker Joe Berlinger, about the ethics of HBO's "The Jinx."

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0:00.0	In 2015, we saw the bombshell finale of the HBO documentary series The Jinks,
0:07.5	director Andrew Jurecki's inquiry, into three murders and their squirrelly suspect, Robert Durst.
0:13.8	It was the climax to end all climaxes, the film's subject in a bathroom unaware he's being recorded apparently
0:23.3	confessing what the hell that I do you kill them all of course what the hell did I do?
0:38.4	Dirst muttered.
0:39.3	Killed them all, of course.
0:42.1	It was a stunning denouement to six episodes of some truly gripping television,
0:47.3	what one commentator called the True Crime Series we've all been waiting for.
0:52.1	And it was edited by...
0:55.0	Definitely not Brooke.
0:57.1	The jinxes filmmakers moved tape around to erase ambiguity and suggest outright confession
1:04.3	where maybe there was none.
1:06.6	What Durst had said in that moment in full was this,
1:13.5	I don't know what you expected to get.
1:18.8	I don't know what's in the house. Oh, I want this. Killed them all, of course.
1:24.6	I want to do something new. There's nothing new about that. He was right. I was wrong.
1:30.3	The burping. I'm having difficulty with the question. What the hell did I do?
1:36.9	Which doesn't sound quite as confessiony. Dirst will stand trial in a few months for the murder of his friend Susan Berman, but the jinx will face judgment too. Durst's lawyers, who last week
1:43.3	released the transcript of the unedited
1:45.7	bathroom mutterings, planned to accuse Jarecki of manipulation and what they say was in an unholy
1:52.1	collaboration between filmmakers and the police. The compromises made by filmmakers to maximize drama
1:58.6	do make for a compelling issue, but not a new one.
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