Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?

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Summary: Terrific piece of detective work!
Review: Mr. Fuhrman has found his new career; investigating unsolved murder cases. Using his masterful detective skills, Mark solves the Martha Moxley murder case explaining his conclusions every step of the way. Martha's was a horribly vicious killing whose investigation was bungled by the police from the beginning and stonewalled by the Skakel family with the possible help of the Kennedys. Mr. Fuhrman is to be commended for courageously taking on the Greenwich, CT establishment as well as exposing the coverup orchestrated by the Skakel family lawyers. We hope that some day soon the Moxley family will see some justice delivered for their daughter's horrible murder, and we look forward to reading Mark's next book.

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Summary: Excellent True Crime
Review: On October 30, 1975, the small community of Belle Haven, changed forever, when the murder of a young girl, Martha Moxley, took place. Found the next day, beaten and stabbed with a golf club, life changed for the Moxley family forever as they know it. From day one evidence was destroyed, innocent people were treated as suspects, and a rich family almost got away with the crime of the century, all by the carelessness of the Greenwich police department. All that changed the minute Mark Fuhrman came along. He got down to business, and solved this crime, finally closing the book on the Martha Moxley case.

This is the true accounts of the murder, the suspects, the police, the residents of Greenwich and Belle Haven, etc. Written by someone who witnessed it firsthand. Mark Fuhrman has written another best-seller, about a crime that haunted America for more than two decades. A must-read book, with info you won't get anywhere else.

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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.