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One of the keenest viewers of the six-part Emmy-winning The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, when it aired in February 2015, was the star himself, Bob ‘killed them all’ Durst.

The docuseries, written and directed by Andrew Jarecki, investigated the disappearance of Durst’s first wife, Kathie McCormack, in 1982, the Mafia-style assassination in 2000 of his best friend, Susan Berman (who provided Durst’s alibi after Kathie’s disappearance), and the murder and dismemberment of his neighbour Morris

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