A badly damaged human describes Mark nicely. Clearly, he wants more than anything to rise above his O.J. trial persona. Unlikely he ever will though.

I don't have a problem with his quasi-criminalist posture as he describes assorted, well publicised cases. And what the hell, nobody is going to bother to read about Tootsie Guthrie when they can read about JonBenet. And he does write surprisingly well. He creates an intersting story.

However, a whistle-blower is never a very attractive character. And Mark's view of his given profession is indeed, not pretty. Plus, I've never been convinced Mark's motivation in his upwardly mobile LA police career didn't open the door to a bit of evidence tampering. And I'm not sure how he would convince me otherwise.

Mark Fuhman; was an asshole then, and he's an asshole now; for real!

The review here sums up a lot of the actual facts. Fuhrman as a "badly damaged human" hits home. Thank goodness he is no longer hiding behind a police badge and would therefor be dangerous too.
Is it not ironic to him that he writes about the very same cases he claims are exploited by media? Has he looked up the word "media"? He fits right in there with the "Fox" propaganda.
The book, (suggest borrowing it from a library) is $28 dollars for barely a day's read and is so transparently full of narcissistic and delusional thinking that I couldn't decide between complete aggravation and pity.
It is clear the intent of the book is to (once again) try to change people's thinking about his part in setting Simpson free of a double murder--and to rail against specifically women in the television media world. His strangely narrow thinking of Nancy Grace is easily seen as a jealous rival's stance of him being tarnished and on the "other" network. He allows for Ms. Grace's previous 100% success rate as a former prosecutor but then dismisses that credit by nonsensically stating she no longer is and is just "acting" like one on television. (Is he is no longer a cop but acting like one on television?)
He claims that the real problem is that these media women don't know how to interrogate and investigate like cops do (like that has any relevance) then contradicts his own words in the book when he says that should be left up to police. Make up your mind Fuhrman on just how, in your mind, these women are wrong. He literally writes out how an interview should go without one moment's thought how people/suspects don't sit through interrogations voluntarily--particularly on national television! He goes as far as to say that Diane Sawyer blew the interview with Scott Peterson but doesn't realize how it revealed how Peterson was lying. If not for the transparent interviews of Peterson the public would not be so convinced of his guilt.
Further into the book he arrogantly claims that citizens live in a "fantasy" of a safe world while the cops (he) are protecting them. Right, we all are as stupid as that. It's a wonder we bother to lock our doors since the police are doing such a precise job of protecting us innocents.
Simply, Fuhrman made himself into a man that nobody can trust. Even though some of his book is written well and has some interesting theory how can we trust a word out of his mouth? He is still claiming that his multiple use of the "N" word was for a play.
I'm always interested in perspectives of certain crimes, but Fuhrman can't seem to help himself and subjects readers to his tirades and self-serving attempts.

Pete Kotz said:

Very thoughtful take, F. Thanks for writing.

Get over this Fuhrman racist business and look at the facts. This guy is a great detective. He solved the Michael Skakel murder when we have police on the take. If it wasn't for Fuhrman that SOB would still be drinking it up and having fun as he would continue to boast how he got a way with killing a 15 year old girl. People should be pissed at the Boulder DA's office as they were on the take as well. Facts don't lie and Patsy Ramsey killed JonBenet and yet Boulder's DA office ran the most incompetent investigation in history because John Ramsey was powerful and rich...Wake up folks and stop blaming Fuhrman...

The most shameless network of all???

Mark fuhrman is a smart good guy. People should not use the n word but I hear black adults and black children use it constantly at school. Their use of that word around young white children only causes little white kids who don't know the meaning of the word to use it too. We discipline the little white kids. But the black kids get away with using that word when they are fighting each other on the school playground. Black people argue that its ok for only black people to use that word. Black kids and black adults use that word in anger mostly. No one should use that word period. Mark made a mistake so move on. God wants us to forgive. The media is unforging and they invade peoples lives who are having family problems. They tell things that they know are not true and they make mountains out of molehills. Cnn is only democratic so don't knock fox. Cnn are a bunch of liberals with no godgiven morals or compassion for anyone. Compassion and empathy are qualities that noisey media people do not possess. They invade our lives with negative junk everyday. I turn off the news and I rarely read a newspaper. This is my first blog. May you all get some empathy and compassion in your lives soon. When you report positive news you and other people will have a better day. I don't need to know about Tiger Woods and neither does anyone else. All the media does is disrupt peoples lives. Mark should be used more often to solve murder cases. May God change all your hearts. Give Mark a break. Forgiveness makes us feel worderful. Caring grudges causes serious health problems.

Mark Furhman's analyses of the Moxley murder and of Jon Benet is as believeable as anything I've read.
Those who disagree probably maintain that OJ surely didn't slit anybody's throat.

Outstanding investigators solve murders and crimes, can you name one that Fuhrman has solved?

He didn't solve the Moxley case, it was given to him by Dominick Dunn from a report that Rushton Skakel made of his two sons to find out for himself. Dunn didn't have the time to write a book about it because of his daughters murder trial and most likely depression, so he gave the report to Fuhrman. The report spelled out the most guilty Skakel son and it was Michael.

The only thing I admire in Fuhrman is he somehow got his face back on television.....again.

Did you know the Simpson case was his first homicide case? Can you name one murder case that he has actually solved? There are none, that is why it's hard for me to read his murder books.

Ann Rule writes about murder but she doesn't own the "Homicide Detective" thing either, especially when you have only been one for less than 6 months before being forced to retire because you weren't honest on the stand.

I'm not saying he's a liar, he's good at not telling the truth. I met the guy in Chicago and the one impression I got from the man was... p#ss! He's not what he's cracked up to be, or pretends to be. More power to him, he's pulled it off for years, although his books are not best sellers anymore. But then again we have Perez Hilton on TV.