Murder in Brentwood

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.

But as certainty about Simpson's guilt grows, so does outrage about the scapegoating of mark Fuhrman. Now the former LAPD detective tells his side of the story in a damning exposé.

Beginning with the 1:05 A.M. phone call summoning him to the scene of the double homicide, Fuhrman takes the reader on a detective's journey through the crucial first 24 hours of the investigation. We comb the crime scenes with Fuhrman. We uncover not only the bloody glove, but also explosive, never-used evidence recorded by Fuhrman and his partner at the scene, but astonishingly never presented at the trial. A crucial clue found in Simpson's own bathroom may hold the secret of the murder weapon. Most shocking of all, the murderer left behind a bloody fingerprint. Why was this critical evidence never used? Fuhrman explains.

The veteran detective gives the inside story of why and how Simpson's interrogation was bungled; how police criminalists made previously unrevealed errors that torpedoed the prosecution's case; why Marcia Clark foolishly suppressed evidence of an affair between Ron and Nicole; and why Clark refused to call a key police witness who could have corroborated Fuhrman's testimony and blown away the defense team's claim of planted evidence. Fuhrman reveals such fascinating eyewitness details as his own role as one of the "shooters."