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1. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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Great book!
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I had read Jon Ronson's excellent book "The Psychopath Test" months prior to seeing "The Jinx." Durst would have to score very high on the test.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychopath-Test-Journey-Industry/dp/1594485755
I went and looked for The Staircase given your comment. It looks like there's a film from 2011, and a TV series from 2013. Both directed by the same guy.
Which one is the one I should watch? Or are they the same?
Saw someone mention it on an IMDB message board. Then looked on Amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/All-Good-Things-Ryan-Gosling/dp/B004H83IG4/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1426884450&sr=1-2&keywords=all+good+things
Edit: It shows it on the desk top version, not on mobile
I actually think the blinking was just his standard behavior, and not a demonstration of deception. The reason is that he was doing it so much. One effective method when you want to detect deception in people is that you must first do what's called "baselining." You baseline a person by watching how they normally behave - their standard idiosyncrasies and typical behaviors - before you can determine what's strange or off.
Because I haven't observed Durst in his normal state, I can't baseline him. Therefore I can't say that his twitching is strange behavior, and I assume it's typical because he does it all the time - it's just an idiosyncrasy he has.
One other thing I thought was interesting was that he stole the sandwich. His reasoning was "maybe I wanted to see if I could get away with it." I wonder if perhaps he had that impulse after the murder (assuming he did it...which I do) because he was starting to get cocky (which he is) and thought he could swindle everyone even for something so ridiculous as a chicken salad sandwich.
There's also something called "micro-expressions" which has to do with movements of the face that happen in fractions of a second. A man named Dr. Paul Eckman pioneered the research into micro-expressions. But there's a LOT of research to suggest that A) you need a camera placed on the suspect and you must slow it down to accurately see the micro-expressions, and B) there's actually no hard evidence to suggest micro-expressions are in fact a demonstration of deception. So I don't put much stock in micro-expressions. That being said, I thought I might have noticed some expressions in Durst's face that looked like "micro-ish" expressions. I saw what I would deem anger, surprise, and disgust. Mostly I saw anger. But I'm not going to bet any money on his facial expressions as demonstrations of deception.
If you want to learn about detecting deception, there's actually a book that I think gives a good 101 lesson on the subject. It's called What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro - an ex-FBI interrogator. He makes a good case for some aspects of detecting deception, but I'm not certain all the methods in the book are scientific. He's been at it a long time, however, so he must know better than me!