Alaina Kelley

It was true that every investigator on the case had signed a confidentiality agreement.

But?

But the young employees who'd been tasked with organizing the information for the investigators had not been required to sign anything.

When that young man, one young man... He who shall not be named.

He has remained anonymous.

Learned that the report and Skakel's confession to murder were being shelved and would not see the light of day.

He stole the report and sent it to Dominic Dunn.

Because he had seen Dominic Dunn talking about the case on the news and he was like, I think you should have this.

wow that's always like my favorite part of a story when one person is just like i think you should look at this i love when one person just is like dominic dunn had built a respectable career for himself as a writer covering crime but he also wasn't exactly an investigative journalist at the time like which he actually shifted a lot after the murder of his daughter which is what was required if the sutton report was going to be put to good use you need an investigative journalist of some sort

So rather than pursue the story himself, Dunn forwarded the report to former Los Angeles police detective turned author Mark Furman.

Dunn didn't know personally, but he respected the work he had done.

Now, although he would eventually make a name for himself as an author and journalist, Furman first became a household name.

Some people might be like, wait a minute.

He became a household name across America during the O.J.

Simpson trial in 1994.

He was an LAPD detective, and he investigated the murder of Simpson's wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, and was the investigator who found the notorious bloody glove.

Oh, shit.

During the trial, though, several witnesses for the defense testified that Furman had previously made racist statements in their presence, leading the defense to charge that Furman had tampered with evidence in order to obtain a conviction.

Despite there being no evidence to suggest the glove had been planted by anyone, the controversy and documentation of, you know, his past, essentially the remarks he had made,

It made him a pariah everywhere, like in law enforcement.