On Sunday, March 15, hours before the series finale of HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, police in New Orleans apprehended Robert Durst and charged him with first-degree murder. When he was found, Durst was staying in a hotel room he’d paid for in cash, under a fake name. Sources told the New York Times they considered Durst a flight risk. Durst was represented by legal counsel during the filming of The Jinx; his lawyer Chip Lewis even appears on camera in some of the episodes. After the finale, Lewis spoke to a triumphant Jeanine Pirro on Fox News and claimed to be “underwhelmed” by Durst’s muttered bathroom confession. Durst himself seems to understand the trouble he is in. He has again retained high-priced Texas attorney Dick DeGuerin, the man who managed to get Durst acquitted of murder under sensational circumstances once before. DeGuerin
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