The Jinx director hired security detail because he feared Robert Durst: He was angry at me [Video]

The Jinx director Andrew Jarecki was walking home from a restaurant one night in 2015 when he saw Robert Durst’s unmistakeable yellow Smart car parked outside his New York apartment building.

“I really freaked out,” Jarecki told The Independent. At the time, episode five of his bombshell documentary had just aired on HBO. The series investigated the three murder investigations facing multimillionaire real estate heir Durst and would eventually lead to the subject’s lifetime prison sentence.

Durst was first suspected of killing his wife, Kathleen Durst, after her mysterious disappearance in 1982; her body has never been found. In 2001, he was arrested for the murder of his neighbour Morris Black – only to be acquitted of all charges after claiming he acted in self-defence.

The Jinx’s penultimate episode revealed new …