Mar 22, 2000 - Greenwich police mucked up the crime scene. They hadn't investigated a murder in 45 years and never got a warrant to search the house

Although Dominick Dunne may be the world's foremost chronicler of the rich and famous, he hardly avoids the seamier side of life in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, Newport, Palm Beach and other fashionable locales he knows like the proverbial back of his hand.

Crime in high places is his specialty, and much of Mr. Dunne's fiction has a common theme: rich people, aided by expensive defense lawyers, getting away with murder. A subject that gnaws at him, it has been his crusade ever since the killer ex-boyfriend of his 22-year-old daughter, Dominique, was released after serving 2 1/2 years of a 6 1/2-year year manslaughter sentence.

From: Dunne uses printed word to see justice done.

Filed Under: Murder