I did not kill my best friend, I did not kill my best friend, I did not kill my best friend,
I did not kill my best friend, I did not kill my best friend, I did not kill my best friend,
What's your first memory of that night that your mother died?
My father came and got me and he said, come on over here, why don't you see mommy.
And we looked out a whole window out onto the roof and there was mommy.
It was a long, long fall.
I never forgot it, I mean it happened, I was there, I saw it, whatever I saw, it never left me.
There were so many little pitfalls in places that he didn't want to go and yet he wanted to make it appear that he had no secrets.
And so that was the challenge of it, was trying to ask the right questions in the right order and we spent a lot of time debating what that order ought to be
and trying to second guess where he was going to go and then organize the questions in such a way that we would get what we needed.
What do you see as the downside to sitting down and doing an interview and what do you see as the upside?
The downside of giving an interview is that the interviewer will take what I've said to make me look as bad as possible.
The upside is that there will be something out there from me.
I will be able to tell it my way and if somebody is reasonably open to a different story or a different situation
than what has been put in the media, then they'll have an opportunity to believe it.
He's enormously charming and that's something that you don't necessarily anticipate when you just hear that somebody is a triple homicide suspect.
And he's funny, he's very clever, he knows where you're going many steps before you get there.
The minute you mention a piece of evidence, he's already thought it through and figured out how he's going to try to counteract that piece of evidence by the time you get to question number five.
So that's challenging and what makes it most compelling, I think.
Certainly this had real consequences in the world.
It really changed things, I think, for television as well as obviously for Robert Durst and the families of the people that were left in his wake.
