ROBERT DURST -- JINXED?

[HairOfTheDog]

I watched the final episode this morning. It was interesting. I'd like to go back and watch the first five to get a better picture. The end was pretty crazy though. Either he's laying the ground work for an insanity defense or he's like crew it. I'm old and dying anyway.

Sometimes I wonder whether Durst is just an incredible actor.

IMO, one thing that has helped him skate all these years (aside from being worth literally billions) is his "eccentric" personality.

A couple of things that weren't covered in the documentary:
- Durst was immediately suspected in the death of Morris Black when a receipt found in one of the bags containing Black's body parts and a bloody trail led straight to Durst. Durst quickly posted bail and went on the lam. He was arrested soon after in a Pennsylvania grocery store. What got him busted? He was caught shoplifting a chicken sandwich and a Band-Aid, despite having $500 in his pocket. He also had a gun, marijuana and $37,000 in cash in his rental car.

-Last year Durst was arrested for exposing himself and urinating on the cash register and candy display at a Houston CVS store. He was fined $500.

So, is he really eccentric or does he just do such things periodically to cultivate that perception because it works in his favor in a sort of cat and mouse game with authorities?

I can easily see Durst's excellent attorneys claiming that his statements to himself in the bathroom about "killing them all" and "I'm caught" -- after being thrown off guard with the handwriting evidence and going into a burping fit -- were really just Durst rehearsing something in his head again. I don't think it will be a slam dunk prosecution, unless Durst really does wanna finally just openly confess.

Here's the handwriting evidence to which Duchess and I have been referring.
The first is the envelope from a long-overlooked note to his friend Susan Berman before her murder. The second is the envelope and note left for the police immediately after Susan's murder.




I think the handwriting and the misspellings being the same on both notes will be harder for Durst to wiggle outta than the seemingly incriminating words he mumbled to himself. Durst admitted writing the first note to Susan when she was alive, and only the killer knew that Susan was dead when the second note was sent to Beverly Hills PD.