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The Jinx Recap: The Verdict
The verdict is in, but not before Robert Durst makes an embarrassing spectacle of himself on the stand.
In the Susan Berman case, Durst admitted to writing a note to the “Beverley Hills” police to inform them of where they could find a cadaver, which did the additional work of putting him in Los Angeles at the time of the murder (which he’d denied) and, of course, in the house peering over her dead body. (In one of my favorite moments from the first season of The Jinx, Chris Lovell, the juror who’d immediately befriend Durst after the trial, talks about convincing the last holdout that the whole dismemberment thing wasn’t worth puzzling over.) Then another, when DeGuerin evokes the sad childhood of a man who watched his beloved mother die at age seven and had distant or antagonistic relationships with his father and brother, likens him to a little kid and says, “Something about him just makes you want to help him.” These jurors obviously came to the right conclusion, but it’s disturbing proof that these tactics can sway a jury.
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