Andrew Jarecki

And even if I don't believe in the way that we incarcerate people,

It's clear that there's a role for prison and there's clearly a guy like Bob Durst who keeps killing people needs to be taken out of society.

What kind of prison is he in?

Well, he died now and he was locked up in a facility in Northern California.

it was sort of a facility for senior citizens who had medical problems.

So, you know, a lot of really rich people, as you could tell from, you know, there've been a bunch of cases on this, really rich people hire consultants to help them navigate what prison they're going to end up going to.

They can negotiate for better conditions.

And so you end up, you know, with that sort of situation where a guy who maybe has stolen a hundred million dollars in

not paid his taxes or taken money from his workers or committed some horrible act of fraud, ends up in a prison farm, ends up in a pretty nice facility where he has access to lots of things.

And then you have poor people that are locked up in places that have rats in their cells and vermin.

But, yeah, I was always sort of amazed that Robert Durst was able to get away with what he got away with for so long.

Well, I knew a lot because I had made a film, a narrative film called All Good Things about sort of Robert Durst's origin story, his relationship with his beautiful wife when they were both young, before all the bad stuff started happening and he became the guy that he became.

There was this kind of strange love story between this kind of difficult man and this very lovely girl, Kathleen McCormick.

And I made this film.

Ryan Gosling played the Bob Durst character and Kirsten Dunst played his wife and really investigated that story so that we could tell the tale of what had happened to them in an accurate way.

And while I was doing that, we reached out to Robert Durst, to the real Robert Durst.

And I said, you know, we're making this film about I guess we spoke to his lawyer.

So we're making this film about you, about your client.

And we'd like to talk to him to get his input, make sure that we're trying to tell the story.

What was the premise of the film?