Fuhrman Blasts O.J. Prosecutors

Former Detective Mark Fuhrman claims in an upcoming book that prosecutors ignored potentially important evidence he says he found, including a bloody fingerprint at the crime scene and a knife box at O.J. Simpson’s house, Vanity Fair magazine reported in its February issue.

The magazine acquired a synopsis of Fuhrman’s book, “Murder in Brentwood,” due out this month. Here’s what else Fuhrman had to say in the book and in an interview with the magazine:

On prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden.

“I kind of figure Marcia and Chris owe me 10 percent of whatever they make on their books,” Fuhrman said.

“Did anybody ever, like, clue in and figure out that they wouldn’t have had a lot of their evidence had it not been for Mark Fuhrman? … The glove never would have been found. The sprinklers would have come on and all the blood on the driveway would have been gone.”

According to the book, Clark is “a victim of celebrity who allowed her personal life to interfere with her work” and Darden is “a brooding, self-absorbed young man who had no business prosecuting a major murder case.”

On the detectives.

Lead detectives Philip Vannatter and Tom Lange are cops who “destroyed the case through inattention, laziness and critical mistakes.”

On his new life in Sandpoint.

“Mark Fuhrman’s dead. I can’t be me anymore. No matter how right or how wrong I am, it doesn’t make any difference. … I can’t be what I was. What I was is dead. I’m starting over.”