Fox's 'Judge Jeanine' Predicted Robert Durst's Arrest Before the End of 'Jinx' on HBO

Jeanine Pirro, the former Westchester District Attorney, predicted in a March 13 interview that the HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Bobby Durst,” was going to break open cold cases connected to eccentric millionaire Robert Durst.

She was right: On March 14, the day before the last episode ran, the Scarsdale native was arrested on a warrant from Los Angeles authorities.

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Pirro, who hosts a television show on the Fox News Channel, Justice with Judge Jeanine, has been intimately connected with Durst’s strange saga since 2000, when she began looking into the disappearance of his wife Kathie in 1982 from their weekend home in Bedford.

Pirro’s investigation was stymied by the mysterious death of a witness, Durst’s California friend who was found shot execution-style right before investigators from the Westchester DA’s office were scheduled to fly out and interview her.

Then a year later Pirro found herself the center of Durst’s defense when he was on trial for murdering and dismembering a neighbor. His lawyers argued that the death was an accident. They said Durst’s attempt to cover it up—in fact, the reason he was living in Texas under an assumed name and disguised as a woman—was due to his fear of Pirro for hounding him a la Inspector Javert from Les Miserables.

As the HBO documentary by directors Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling unfolded over the past six weeks, it seemed be pointing towards Durst’s involvement in the deaths of his friend.

Pirro talked about it with Lisa DePaulo of Bloomberg.com in an interview published March 13.

LDP: I’m guessing that the last episode is going to have some other shocker

JP: I don’t think there’s any question that the last episode is going to tie this thing in a package for California.

Pirro made another prediction during that interview:

LDP: Aren’t you worried that Durst is going to flee between now and the final episode on Sunday? I mean, he fled before. And it would be easy to go further than Allentown or Bethlehem.

JP: You know, I don’t know what is happening on Sunday, but what I can assume right now is that someone is watching him. There’s too much at stake. And I think, having been in law enforcement for 30 years, my instincts tell me that everybody realizes that there appears to be sufficient evidence to go before a grand jury in California, and Robert Durst knows it, and so his first instinct would be to run. I mean, the guy has been a deaf-mute woman! So I imagine he understands the idea of running and disguising himself. But my concerns are really allayed by the fact that I believe law enforcement recognizes the danger of him fleeing and are watching him very closely.

On Saturday, Durst left Texas and checked into a hotel in New Orleans under an assumed name.

He was arrested there by FBI agents, according to news reports.

Read the complete bloomberg.com piece: A Conversation With Jeanine Pirro, Dog on a Bone About the Bobby Durst Case

Pirro hosted a special edition of her Fox TV show last night about the Durst arrest.

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