Within the Jinx sequel, Galveston trial pass judgement on Susan Criss sounds off at the strangeness of the status.
“Chris Lovell was one of the jurors in the Galveston case who immediately befriended Bob as soon as the trial was over,” says Criss. “I think he was enamored with Bob because Bob is incredibly wealthy. He was hoping that would provide some financial rewards. I’ve never seen or heard of a juror forming a relationship with a defendant after trial. But then most defendants aren’t extremely wealthy with sort of a celebrity status.”
Regarding the Houston condo cleanup, she provides, “It is astounding that 12 years after a murder trial, one of the jurors is helping Bob make his getaway.”
Lovell stated to Jarecki for the primary Jinx. “I didn’t set out to be Robert Durst’s friend,” he stated. “I just set out to get some questions answered in my mind, but it has developed into a friendship, and I don’t have a problem with him at all.”
Doug Oliver
Lewin dubbed Doug Oliver “the rudest witness I’ve ever encountered in my career.” Vulture known as him “a real estate developer who seems awful even by the low standards of real estate developers.” And Robert Durst referred to him as a faithful buddy.
Consistent with Charles Bagli of The Unutilized York Instances, Durst earned Oliver’s allegiance via being beneficiant with him firstly of his actual property building profession. As Bagli recounts in The Jinx, Durst, who was once the scion of a prestigious Long island actual property folk, fronted the cash for a tenement construction Oliver sought after to shop for. Once they bought the construction, Durst lightly fracture the income with Oliver, launching a lifelong friendship.
“Doug Oliver was [Durst’s] bad-boy, knocking-around friend,” stated Jarecki. “They went to St. Tropez and brought girls…. He was like the bad angel on Bob’s shoulder, or vice versa. They were off doing mischief. And he loved that about Bob.”
Oliver was once an individual significance wondering, in step with Lewin, as a result of “he was extremely close to Bob. He was talking to Bob in 1982, the week Kathie disappeared.”
But if Lewin to start with hooked up with Oliver via telephone, Oliver refused to cooperate with the deputy district lawyer. That contentious telephone name, which will get performed within the form, ends with Oliver telling Lewin that he’d instead travel to prison than get on a business aviation to Los Angeles. Oliver additionally tells Lewin he’ll desire a subpoena and a private-jet price range to get him to take part.
Finally, Oliver did bend to the legislation and testify—regardless that he was once admittedly uncooperative, bristling at questions and alleging he may no longer recall a lot that prosecutors requested him about (till prosecutors referred him to his earlier statements).
Then listening to Oliver’s nasty sound with the deputy district lawyer, it’s eerie to listen to him ooze sweetness in a decision with Durst, featured in a brandnew episode: “Whatever I can do for you, Bobby. It’d be my pleasure.”
Nick Chavin
Nick Chavin is every other actual property buddy whose commitment Durst earned via leveraging his monetary property. Then Chavin gave up his profession fronting the X-rated nation employment Chinga Chavin—you learn that as it should be—he was once offered to Durst via their mutual buddy Susan Berman.
