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Summary: a good book
Review: A great account of a dirty secret. Mark Furhman did a great job of detecting and writing. Besides, he didn't kill two people in Bel Air.
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Summary: This book was gripping-surely an indictment will follow!
Review: I grew up near Greenwich, CT, and new some of the "players" in this book. There is no doubt in my mind that Mark Fuhrman willl redeem himself after the OJ scandal when this crime is solved within the legal system. I can't imagine the authorities NOT acting on his findings. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in true, unsolved crime.
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Summary: Another Greenwich resident responds:
Review: Any book that forces the public to re-examine the facts of the Martha Moxley murder in Greenwich, Ct. is worth any amount of controversy the author may generate. The Greenwich police's handling of Moxley's murder 25 years ago was was disgraceful, and their recent treatment of Furhman by the Greenwich police bordered on obstruction of justice. The Greenwich community still doesn't want it's "dirty little secret" published about it's behavior at the time of the murder, but thanks to Mark Furhman (and Tim Dumas, author of "Greentown"), maybe justice will finally, though belatedly, be served.
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Summary: Greenwich embarassed by Fuhrman's detective skills
Review: Don't trust anyone who lives in Greenwich. They are all a bunch of liars and cowards. Everyone knows that the Skakel boys were involved in the murder, and yet they kept silent because they didn't want the ugly truth about their town to be revealed. Tim Dumas' book Greentown is worthwhile if you are interested in Viking lore and other trivia.
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Summary: Look at the facts
Review: There is one thing, all the people, who condemn Mark Fuhrman for his role in the O.J.case have overseen: that he is simply a good detective, who found all the crucial pieces of evidence, that schould have led to O.J's. conviction, if the jury had really looked at the facts. The same thing here. The book was condemned in advance, because it was written by the "notorious" Mark Fuhrman. But when you read it, you will find out, that he has a clear look at the facts once again. He shows us, how members of a well protected and connected family manage to get away with murder. Only this time all the characters are white. What will his critics say now?
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Summary: Justice, if you can afford it you will get it.
Review: This book reads easily and is another winner by Mark Fuhrman. He showed America that Justice comes in a shopping cart, if you can afford it, you get it. The book reveals the sloppy work done by the police or the cover up due to political powers in the community of Greenwich. I hope to see the case re-opened in this case and a future book by Fuhrman on the trial and conviction of members of the Kennedy family.
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Summary: The truth
Review: The fact that Mark is not from Greenwich is a good thing. His whole point is that the murder was unsolved because of the barrier of power and family name. His investigative reporting relies on many more facts than Greenwich police had or chose to ignore. Read the book and look at facts.
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Summary: What was he thinking?
Review: How dare Mark Fuhrman write this book? This man knows absolutely nothing about Greenwich or the Martha Moxley murder. If you are interested in true facts from someone who knows the people, the town and teh story, read Greenstown. That book is actually worth it. A Greenwich Resident Rosalind Haviland
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Summary: A Killer (And Others) Exposed
Review: The main body of this story is a fresh look at the (previously) unsolved 1975 murder of fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut, and the disastrous and failed investigation and aftermath of the crime. It's a tragic story about murder and the privileges of wealth and power. At the head and tail of the story are a pair of sequences that give retired detective Mark Fuhrman's examination of this cold case a larger perspective.After recounting the basic facts of the case, Fuhrman explains how he became interested in the Moxley murder (through author Dominick Dunne and an explosive leaked document), and the hostility and obstruction he met in Greenwich, from police and residents, when he arrived there to begin his research. At the end of his story he hands an incredibly scathing indictment to Greenwich's police department and civic leaders and the residents of Belle Haven. This isn't mere payback, either. By the time he delivers his kick to their collective pants he's spent the better part of four hundred pages bending them over with well-researched facts and intelligence, and by shining a harsh light on their character and actions. He even demonstrates that the Greenwich Police Department failed to learn from the mistakes of the Moxley debacle and repeated all of these mistakes in a homicide investigation several years later. In examining the failures of a police department and the community that should have supported it, Fuhrman offers these stirring words: "Corruption comes in many forms. Sometimes it is a payoff. Other times it is simply fear, laziness, selfishness. Everybody has his reasons for not solving the Moxley case, or not helping those who could have. There are always reasons not to do something, and cowards will turn these reasons into excuses. One of the worst forms of cowardice is silence." Fuhrman identifies his suspect and lays out his case. A month after this book was published (there's a new afterword by Fuhrman) the wheels finally began to turn in Connecticut, leading to the conviction of Martha Moxley's killer a quarter of a century after the last blow was landed. A great read, but much more than simply that. Well done, Mr. Fuhrman, and may all of the Moxleys- especially Martha- finally find peace.
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Summary: Oh, he did it.
Review: Mark Fuhrman: He actually said the "N" word on some tapes for a manuscript for a fictional play, so that makes him as bad as the double murderer O.J. Simpson, and the murderer Michael Skakel. Give me a break! Remember the old adage, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Okay, I'm white and I wouldn't like to be called that word if I were black. But you know what? Knives and golf irons really DO hurt you, whether you are white, black or in between. This book is telling it like it happened, come on, Michael was masturbating out on a tree limb, that's why his semen was on the body of Martha Moxley, a privileged young girl who thought she had the world by the tail. After all, she was playing and flirting with the nephews of JFK and Bobby Kennedy!. 1975. Well, she was playing a dangerous game that night before Halloween. She was playing one brother against another. Or was she? She and Michael were both only 15 years old at the time. This was a game that got out of hand, but when the girl's body is found almost in her backyard, clubbed to death with the five iron inscribed with the name of the deceased mother of the Skakel brothers, what else the hell do you think happened? Michael, now 44, is in prison finally after confessing during a rehab term, is finally serving justice, but the clout of the Kennedy's is still alive and well, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he is back to freedom. Oh, as an afterthought, If Martha was still alive, she would also be 44.
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