The Jinx
The State of Texas vs. Robert Durst
TV Flash files “The State of Texas vs. Robert Durst” as a desk essential hour — The Jinx (2015) on HBO, season 1, episode 4, aired 2015-03-01, 51 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 12 in the The Jinx guide, hour 4 of 6 in season 1. It aired 2015-03-01 (51 min). The listed hour before it is “The Gangster's Daughter” (S01E03). Next is “Family Values” (S01E05).
Essential hour: “The State of Texas vs. Robert Durst”. The State of Texas vs. Robert Durst is the docket as thriller: true crime as court title, access still the engine.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
2003. With Robert Durst on trial in Galveston, TX for the 2001 murder of Morris Black, many of those involved in earlier investigations – including Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro and Kathie Durst friends Gilberta Najamy and Eleanore Schwank – are convinced that a conviction is all but assured. Instead, Durst's attorneys, led by ace lead counsel Dick DeGuerin, surprises the court with an unlikely first witness and a brilliant self-defense strategy. Dramatic footage from the trial, combined with revealing recent interviews with Robert Durst, punctuate the courtroom drama that led to a starting verdict.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The State of Texas vs. Robert Durst sit in the The Jinx guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 12 — hour 4 of 6 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did The Jinx S01E04 air?
The State of Texas vs. Robert Durst aired 2015-03-01 and is listed at 51 minutes.
Is the hot-mic ending real?
The finale's bathroom-audio moment became a defining TV event and legal-news rupture. Access is the plot; the series does not play it as a scripted twist show.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Andrew Jarecki's Robert Durst docuseries made access the plot: real-estate heir, missing women, then a hot-mic bathroom murmur that detonated mid-air. Prestige true crime as lightning — finale timing that altered legal news and launched a boom, for better and worse, of documentary as event television.
So about the bathroom audio: the group chat treated a hot-mic murmur like a season finale, then the news cycle jumped the fence. (I said spoiler-free. The ending is the cultural fact.) Andrew Jarecki's HBO docuseries premiered February **2015**: real-estate heir Robert Durst as himself, Jarecki as interviewer-director, missing women, access becoming the plot, then a hot-mic bathroom murmur that detonated mid-air. Finale timing as cultural lightning — a defining TV event of the decade that altered legal news while…
Filed against
- Robert Durst as Self
Robert Durst occupies The Jinx as himself — Andrew Jarecki's docuseries making access the plot, real-estate heir, missing women, then a hot-mic bathroom murmur that detonated mid-air. Prestige true crime as lightning. TV Flash files him…
- Andrew Jarecki as Interviewer/Director
Andrew Jarecki made The Jinx’s access the plot — Robert Durst, missing women, a hot-mic bathroom murmur that detonated mid-air. Prestige true crime as lightning, finale timing that altered legal news and launched a documentary boom for…