Timothy Dumas
Autor(a) de Greentown: Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Community
Obras por Timothy Dumas
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (no mapa)
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Ocupações
- Journalist
editor
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 103
- Popularidade
- #185,855
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 5
Author Timothy Dumas grew up in Greenwich, and has written extensively on the Moxley murder case for newspapers and magazines. In Greentown, he traces events preceding and following the murder in the context of the wealthy community in which they took place. We see Bell Haven as a community with dysfunctional families, rampant alcoholism, irresponsible parents, and spoiled children who grow to become dysfunctional adults. The local police force has had no experience with murder, and are diverted into following blind leads and unlikely suspects. Further, the Skakels close ranks behind their attorneys, and the two boys (Tommy and Michael) are sent off to private schools, out of the reach of the police investigators. Nevertheless, a persistent police investigator (Frank Garr) and a dogged local newspaper reporter (Ken Leavitt) are among those who keep the case alive. Indeed, Dumas uses information brought to light by Garr and Leavitt to suggest probable involvement of Tommy and/ or Michael Skakel.
By the time Dumas wrote this book (1998), the investigation had been re-opened and a grand jury had been convened. Further, the case had attracted attention of former police detective Mark Fuhrman who began writing his own book on the case. With no person having been indicted, Dumas’s book is a report on a case in progress. However, within two years, Michael Skakel was indicted for the murder, and in 2002, he was convicted; he is now serving a prison sentence of 20 years to life.
Despite Michael Skakel’s conviction, many questions remain about the Moxley murder. Among them is the question of how a wealthy upscale community can give rise to the social pathologies that spawned the murder. Tim Dumas’ book helps to answer that question, with the helpful perspective of one who knows Greenwich from the inside. Readers interested in other details of the case will want to read both Len Levitt’s Conviction and Mark Fuhrman’s Murder in Greenwich.… (mais)