Murder in Brentwood

Great book! This gives a great perspective on the entire case. When this all went down, the media made me believe that this guy was a complete arrogant, racist cop. Not so. Mark Fuhrman did his job and he did it incredibly well. It was not his job to prosecute O.J. Simpson--Darden and Clark messed that up. I find this whole case a travesty. There was a mountain of evidence and it all pointed to one man. I find it amazing how the prosecution could let this trial go so off rails like it did. Had they just stuck to the evidence there was no way O.J. would have walked. They were highly inexperienced and were fooled by the smoke & mirrors of "The Dream Team". Very sad that the two victims and their families never got justice and that Fuhrman's career and life were destroyed during this trial. I have a ton of respect for Fuhrman, the man did his job. Makes me want to read Murder in Greenwich now. I really liked how Fuhrman, after telling the reader of all the evidence and how it all came about being discovered, then tells you how he thinks the murders played out. Great insight into how a detective must think. I kept finding myself trying to piece it all together but could not come up with how the gauze pad was near the bloody glove on Rockingham. Once he reveals, it all makes PERFECT sense!

This book is a rebuttal of sorts as well as a step by step account of the O.J. case. I learned a lot about the case, lawyers, and especially Mark Furman. All that bad press he got was unfair, but then so much press coverage these days is unfair. Well written, and engrossing, I now want to read "Murder in Greenwich".

I'm not happy at all. I purchased this as a new book as a gift for my boyfriend and when I opened it up it was bent and already signed as a gift from someone else to a person dated 1997. It's hard to gift this to him now. Will be attempting to send it back. waited 5 days for nothingUpdate! The merchant made a fast and professional recovery of this situation which says a lot. This seemed to be an honest mistake so I'll be a returning customer for sure.

Fhurman was screwed by the system

This is my first book on the murder and I felt this was good, but not enough. Fuhrman gives a lot of good details of the murder but I wanted more details of how much evidence was collected and what the trial was like. For obvious reasons Fuhrman tells alot about himself and what happened to him as a result of the trial. He explains his past and it is easy to see that his admittedly dumb mistakes in the past tarnished his reputatation and prevented the prosecution from using him effectively. I get the impression that Fuhrman was a good investigator and blaming him for what went wrong with the verdict (Simpson is clearly the murderer) is wrong. I've started reading Bugliosi's book and between the two it is clear that Ito and the prosecution did a pretty good job of their own and should not be pointing the finger of blame at anyone else. I hope to find a book which simply describes the crime and the trial, not from the perspective of the defense or the prosecution. I hope Mark Fuhrman finds peace in his life.

Fuhrman's book amounts to a bunch of lies that continue to fail when thoroughly examined by independent investigators willing to put his allegations of discovery to the test. These investigators are not willing to grant Fuhrman the privilege of presumption relative to his assertions of evidence he found at Simpson's residence on June 13, 1994. If there is no glove found at OJ Simpson's property there is no case, and Fuhrman knows this; yet, he's willing to gamble that the public is going to accept the absurdity that Simpson carried a glove he wore in committing a murder back to his own residence and dropped it on his property. So now anything he says about the glove has to stand up; however, when thoroughly examined physically and mathematically, it does not. Fuhrman places the 8 drops of blood inside the Rockingham front gate leading up the driveway towards the front entrance which is about 80-100 feet away. However, he found the glove almost twice that distance, or at least 160 feet away, inside Simpson's property under the air condition adjacent to Kato's guesthouse and at least another 80-90 feet beyond the front entrance of Simpson's residence. Fuhrman says in his book that he found no blood leading away from the glove, either in the leaves or on the pathway that leads from Kato Kaelin's guesthouse back towards the front. Anyone with common sense has to ask, "how come?" The conclusion, appears to be whichever narrative that is used, Fuhrman's or the prosecutors, which the latter has Simpson walking along the fence line on his neighbor's property before climbing over to bang on Kato's wall. That distance is at least 160 feet from the front gate, then he would have had to return to the Rockingham gate 160 feet where the blood drops were found by Fuhrman and Roberts, and then return back about 100 feet to enter his front door. This amounts to one and a half NFL football playing fields, tell us who is going to believe that Simpson traveled that amount of distance before entering his front door. So in his rush to give editorial writers something to proclaim to support Simpson's guilt, neither he nor they bothered to examine the mechanics of what Fuhrman has alleged. Simpson admitted that he nicked his finger and may have bled some drops on his driveway, searching for his cell phone the night his wife was killed.However, the wound was examined by medical doctors and determined not to be a wound caused by a knife, considering that the woundwas ragged. The contradictions in his book, match the contradictions in his testimony of when he first saw the glove at Bundy, by claiminghe first saw the glove when he went outside Nicole's gate and around to the northside fence where Goldman's body was laying against. However, he seemed to get amnesia since officer Riske had already stated that he saw the glove lying near Goldman's foot around 12:30AM on 06/13/94 or about two hours before Fuhrman arrived and showed the glove and knit cap to Fuhrman. So, how many bites at the apple should Fuhrman be given in terms of being granted the privilege of presumption that he simply made a minor error versus telling a crucial lie. During his narcissistic testimony Fuhrman stated when asked where he saw the glove at Bundy, he replied during testimony that he saw "them" lying at Goldman's feet. Now that becomes a major question, were both gloves already at the murder site and Fuhrman simply carried one back to Simpson's Rockingham estate. Just how can you trust this man, since he lies in his book by stating he took the picture of the glove at the murder site when he got back after 7 AM, but testimony of the LAPD photographer Rokahr under cross examination proved that the glove was photographed an hour and a half before daylight at around 4:15 to 4:30 AM; sunrise on 06/13/94 was at 5:41 AM. So, again, are we to extend to Fuhrman the privilege of presumption and take for granted that his contradictions are simple faux pas. His book simply reads like a junior high kid's fantasy, glossing over potentially impeachable things while passing the blame for every aspect of malfeasance or irregularity that took place off on any and everyone else but himself. By the time you finish this book you can see that Fuhrman has a problem with telling the truth that reaches well beyond the needless lies he told about not uttering racial epitaphs over the previous ten year period. The lies about hateful racial utterances did not directly impact crucial evidence, but within Fuhrman's book the placement of the blood drops and the distant location of where Fuhrman allegedly found the bloody glove raise serious questions of his credibility. Unlike other journalists willing to lay down and grant Fuhrman forgiveness relative to these irregularities, we are not.

Very good read......but the copy must have been an old library book or something as it stunk to high heaven of smoke, to the extent that the previous owner must be dead from lung cancer or at the very least have a very bad case of Capstan full strength induced emphysema!

Excellent

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I read this book in a weekend... for the most part it was riveting and I could not put it down.I particularly liked how Furhrman called out all the self-serving characters and I think he was earnest for the most part. He brings to light a lot of the behind the scenes drama that illustrated the loopholes in the prosecution case.I believe OJ Simpson to be guilty, but thought there was reasonable doubt... What I was waiting for was his attacking each of the defense's key points, which he did not.He doesn't give a time at which the murder occurred, and if it were at 10:35pm as the defense said, did OJ Simpson have enough time to kill two people, dispose of the weapon, and get home in 5-10 minutes? Furhman does not opine on this key doubt.Also, there was no mention of EDHA on the socks, the way the socks had blood on them, and how the investigation handled OJ's blood sample (bindle not full, not initialed by Fung's assistant, etc.).Overall, a good read... but a clear example of "hindsight is 20/20".

It is an excellent read for the most part. It does get a little overwritten on Mark Fuhrman's part and I can only surmise that what he has in print is the way it was but as they say in court.........."it's hearsay". All in all it is an eye opener and hard to put down.