My new book Speaking of Murder: Media Autopsies of Famous Crime Cases launches today. I dissect three famous crime cases in terms of whether the media brought justice to the accused, the victims and the community. Fatty Arbuckle, whose career was destroyed when the press convicted him of murder but three juries wouldn’t. Kitty Genovese who was stabbed to death while 38 neighbors did nothing to help. And Truman Capote turned the Clutter murders in Kansas into art, perhaps destroying himself in the process.
