Murder in Brentwood - Hardcover

Fuhrman, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895264218 ISBN 13: 9780895264213

Publisher: Gateway Books, 1997

Synopsis

Recounts the first twenty-four hours of the investigation into the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, describing evidence that was not used in the trial and sharing the author's impressions of the case and why it failed to bring about a conviction.

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Review

This book yields two surprises that have nothing to do with what made its author so notorious, but which have plenty to do with how public bureaucracies fail. First, it includes Furhman's contemporaneous crime scene notes (with observations as meticulous as any TV sleuth's), which make mention of a "visible fingerprint" Furhman saw on the Bundy back gate (and discussed with his partner at the time). Second, it reveals that Lange and Vannatter, the detectives from "downtown" who took over the case from Furhman, didn't check out the print that night or subsequently, and indeed never read Fuhrman's notes at all. That's why you didn't hear about the fingerprint during the criminal trial. (When authorities returned to sample blood from the back gate two weeks later, the print was gone.) In short, the main lesson of this book is an organizational one worth remembering: it doesn't matter if the grunts do a good job, if the big-shots don't follow up.

From the Inside Flap

For O.J. Simpson to get away with murder, an innocent cop—a brilliant detective—had to be destroyed. That was the cynical strategy of the Simpson “Dream Team,” and it worked.

Now the former LAPD detective tells his side of the story in a damning exposé that reveals why and how Simpson’s interrogation and prosecution were bungled.

Mark Fuhrman’s own hand-drawn maps of the crime scene and his reconstruction of the murders leave no doubt about what really happened on June 12, 1994.

Murder in Brentwood sets the record straight.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gateway Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895264218
• ISBN 13: 9780895264213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392