HBO will revisit Robert Durst with The Jinx—Part Two

True crime content continues to be extremely popular, but the genre may have peaked back in 2015 when Robert Durst went to the bathroom unknowingly wearing a microphone and muttered to himself that he’d “killed them all, of course.” The finale of HBO’s The Jinx capped off a sensational series that had unprecedented access to Durst and ended up being instrumental in his arrest and ultimate conviction for the murder of his best friend, Susan Berman. And now there’s going to be more, as today the network announced The Jinx—Part Two.

According to a press release from HBO, after Durst was arrested, “The filmmakers continued their investigation for the next eight years, uncovering hidden material, Durst’s prison calls, and interviews with people who had never before come forward.” The six-episode season is currently in production and doesn’t yet have a release date, though it is slated to premiere in 2024.

The original Jinx came about after Durst reached out to Andrew Jarecki, who directed the film All Good Things, a fictionalized version of Durst’s life starring Ryan Gosling and Kristen Dunst. Professing himself to be a fan of the film, Durst agreed to be interviewed by Jarecki for a documentary. The docuseries explored Durst’s life growing up as the son of wealthy real estate magnate Seymour Durst and the disappearance of his wife Kathleen McCormack. Durst maintained his innocence in McCormack’s death (and wasn’t charged in connection with her disappearance until 2021). He did confess to the gruesome dismemberment of a neighbor in Texas, though he claimed it was done in self-defense.

It was Berman’s death that eventually saw Durst sentenced to life in prison, in large part due to evidence uncovered by The Jinx. It wasn’t the muttered confession of “killed them all,” but an anonymous note sent to police to help them find Berman’s body after her murder in 2000 that renewed the investigation in 2015. The Jinx filmmakers found another sample of Durst’s writing that not only matched the “cadaver note,” but also showed the same misspelling of Beverly Hills (written “Beverely”).

Durst was subsequently arrested—the same day The Jinx finale aired—and eventually convicted of Berman’s murder before his death in 2022. Who knows what else Jarecki and his team may have uncovered in the years since that blockbuster finale aired?