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Date: 9/20/2005
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From: Jasper
Date: 1/29/03
Time: 7:52:24 PM
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Rose,

Several things did pop out at me in Kennedy’s article. One of them was the importance of Julia Skakel’s friend Andrea Shakespeare and the fact that Fuhrman dropped her from the movie although he did mention her in his book. The closest he comes to her in the movie is character called Hildy Southerlyn who appears to be a composite character with a pinch of this and a dash of that thrown in from characters in various movies.

In Kennedy’s article he quotes Frank Garr, of the Greenwich Police Department and the Connecticut Attorney General’s office as dismissing Fuhrman’s book as “a cut and paste rewrite of old newspaper stories and police files…” This is what I’ve been saying all along that he did with the evidence in the Bundy murders, only he did it with bits and pieces of the movies. The fictional Hildy Southerlyn is a case in point.

Southerlyn character sent me on a movie link trip from Silver Streak, to The Rosary Murders, The Big Sleep (’46 and ’78), Cat’s Eye, Angel Heart, Witch Hunt, Elvira, Eureka, Eyes of Lara Mars, The Face of Fear, When Dreams Come True and Twin Peaks. Those links culminated in an episode of Moonlighting with a line from William Shakespeare’s Othello. The line was Iago’s “…beast with two backs.”

Kennedy does not seem to me to lean on the Skakel’s gardener Franz Wittine (Alex Grafton in the movie) as the killer and seems a bit uncertain why some of the other Skakels consider him the prime suspect. He noted that the blood trail that Martha’s body was dragged along did not follow a straight line. It zigzagged. That indicated to Kennedy that the killer did not know the land well enough to know where he was going. The point he seems to be making is that the case against Wittine is so much stronger than the case against Michael that it made no sense to prosecute Michael. The case he makes against, Littleton (Morris Banks in the movie), which includes a witness, is even stronger.

The only definite villains I saw in his article were Dunne, Fuhrman, and Benedict for prosecuting the case in a way that could have gotten any of four other suspects convicted (high tech summation, evidence withheld, and taken out of context, etc.).

Even the people who lied about Michael saying incriminating things came off as weak, rather than evil. Most of them got caught up in “innocent” lies to impress friends when the friend took it seriously and went to the cops. Others were reported to have said something but denied it. One of those people, the owner of the “Snake Pit” rehab facility where Michael was incarcerated dropped dead just before Michael’s trial. Another, Greg Coleman (the “Maryland Man in the movie) also died before the trial. His testimony from the one-man Grand Jury (Judge Thim) got read into evidence anyway.

In Fuhrman’s movie Coleman suggests that Michael confessed to the killing by saying he was in the facility because he did “a bad thing in the mid ’70s. The bad thing he did was getting drunk, putting on his dead mother’s dress and falling asleep. His father caught him and freaked. A scene in Fuhrman’s Murder in Greenwich hints at this incident but without Kennedy’s article neither you nor I could have made the connection. –Jasper


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