Murder in Greenwich (film)

Murder in Greenwich is a 2002 American television film directed by Tom McLoughlin. The teleplay by Dave Erickson is based on the 1998 book of the same title by Mark Fuhrman.

The film is narrated by Martha Moxley Maggie Grace, whose brutal murder sometime betweenp.m. on Octoberand the early morning hours of October 31, 1975 remains unsolved in 1997. Mark Fuhrman, a former Los Angeles Police Department detective who gained notoriety during the O.J. Simpsons murder trial, is intrigued by the case and travels to Greenwich, Connecticut to conduct an investigation of his own. Local authorities resent an outsider, especially one with a reputation as tarnished as Fuhrmans, invading their turf. They do everything they can to block Fuhrmans access to official reports. The film alternates between flashbacks of the events leading up to the murder and scenes set in the present day, which chronicle Fuhrmans frustration and interactions with Steve Carroll, the original investigator who grudgingly assists him. Their efforts ultimately bring Kennedy relative and former Moxley neighbor Michael Skakel to justice.Michael Speier of Variety said, Investigative techniques give way to genre cliches in USAs exaggerated Murder in Greenwich. Falling into the telepic trap of sensationalism without savvy, it delves into the shallow end of the Martha MoxleyMichael Skakel case, which has plenty more politics, intrigue and confounding history than this execution suggests . . . As Fuhrman, Meloni is macho almost to the point of bogus whether hes playing the disgraced cop as he really is or how he thinks America sees him is hard to discern. ........

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