Murder in Brentwood

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 1997. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 24 cm. xxii, 392, [2] pages. Illustrations (mostly color). Appendices. Index. Foreword by Vincent Bugliosi. Signed by the author. Fuhrman's account of what happened to Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, and the O J. Simpson trial. Mark Fuhrman (born February 5, 1952) is a former detective of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He is primarily known for his part in the investigation of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in the O. J. Simpson murder case. In 1995, Fuhrman was called to testify regarding his discovery of evidence in the Simpson case, including a bloody glove recovered at Simpson's estate. During the trial, claims were made that Fuhrman frequently used a racist epithet toward African Americans during the 1980s, which Fuhrman denied. In response, Simpson's defense team produced recorded interviews with Fuhrman and witnesses showing that he had repeatedly used racist language during this period. As a result, the defense claimed that Fuhrman had committed perjury and was not a credible witness. The credibility of the prosecution has been cited as one reason Simpson was acquitted. Fuhrman retired from the LAPD in 1995. Fuhrman believes that Simpson is guilty of the murders and places blame for his acquittal on the lead detectives' failure to enter evidence into the chain of custody and the prosecution's failure to adequately argue their case. Since his retirement from the LAPD, Fuhrman has written true crime books and hosted talk radio. He was the first investigator on the bloody scene. He was the first guy to take the fall. Now, he is the first to tell the whole truth-and nothing but the truth. For O. J. Simpson to get away with murder, an innocent cop had to be destroyed-that was the strategy of the Simpson defense. But as certainty about Simpson's guilt grew, so did outrage about the scapegoating of Detective Mark Fuhrman. Fuhrman knew how the police mishandled and overlooked key evidence. He knew where the prosecutors went wrong. Now the former LAPD detective tells his side of the story in this damning exposé. In this blockbuster book, Fuhrman takes listeners on a detective's journey through the crucial first twenty-four hours of the investigation. We uncover not only the bloody glove but explosive new evidence recorded by Fuhrman and his partner at the scene but astonishingly never presented at the trial. Fuhrman's own hand-drawn maps of the crime scene and his reconstruction of the murders leave no doubt about what really happened at South Bundy Drive on June 12, 1994. These new revelations about the incompetence and corruption that pervaded the "trial of the century" set the record straight.