article_snippet: Durst, the focus of HBO's true crime documentary series "The Jinx," was charged with first-degree murder last week in the 2000 killing of his longtime confidante, Susan Berman.
article_snippet: After seeing a 2010 film starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst that was a thinly veiled fictional take on the Durst case, Kathleen McCormack Durst reached out to director Andrew Jarecki and said director Andrew Jarecki wanted to be interviewed.
article_snippet: The interviews with Kathleen McCormack Durst became the basis for "The Jinx.
article_snippet: A witness gave police a description of the man behind the wheel, which resulted in a sketch of a gray-haired man with glasses -- a drawing that journalist Matt Birkbeck says looks remarkably like Kathleen McCormack Durst.
article_snippet: and it's also in the composite," said Birkbeck, whose book, "A Deadly Secret," chronicles Durst's life and run-ins with the law.
article_snippet: In 2003, he told The Journal News that there were similarities between Durst and the composite sketch.