The story of a convicted murderer Robert Durst returns to television.
HBO announced this on Wednesday The Jinx – Part Two will premiere on Sunday, April 21 and continues the groundbreaking investigative journalism that led to Durst’s Arrest and conviction in the original series 2015, The Jinx: The Life and Death of Robert Durst.
“The series brings to light material including interviews with Durst associates who had never come forward before, phone calls Durst made from prison to his friends, family and lawyers, and video footage from the interrogation room where prosecutors followed him before his arrest,” reads the network’s official synopsis for the upcoming six-part follow-up series. “The series also includes candid interviews with prosecution and defense attorneys, as well as interviews with jurors and the trial judge.”
A new trailer was also released on Wednesday in which Durst’s employees talk about how he reacted to the first series and wanted to flee the country before his arrest:
Director Andrew Jarecki returns to direct the new episodes, which follow the events that unfolded from Durst’s 2015 arrest in the 2000 murder of Susan Berman until his death in prison in January 2022.
The first Hex The series ended with a shocking final episode in which Durst was filmed on the microphone uttering the phrase “Killed ’em all, of course” after being arrested by police in New Orleans. The quote likely referred to Berman, a longtime friend, as well as the unsolved disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack, in 1982 and the murder of his neighbor Morris Black in 2001.
Durst was acquitted of Black’s murder in 2003, although he admitted dismembering him. Following the finale of the original six-parter Hex In the series, he was arrested for Berman’s murder.
During the Berman trial, McCormack’s disappearance was officially ruled a murder and Durst was formally charged with the crime on October 22, 2021.
He was found guilty of Berman’s murder in September 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, he only served a few months of his sentence before he died in custody as a result of cardiac arrest on January 10, 2022.
Durst took the stand during the Berman trial and addressed his own now famous comments At the end of Hex Series.
“What I didn’t say out loud, or maybe I said it very quietly, is, ‘Of course they’re all going to think I killed them all,'” Durst tried to clarify during his testimony, he also said that participating in the Project played a role “Very, very, very big mistake.”
The curse was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards, winning in the categories of Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Imaging for Nonfiction Programming.
The Jinx – Part Two Premieres Sunday, April 21 at 10pm PT/ET on HBO and streaming on Max. New episodes will follow on subsequent Sundays.
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