Sorry, but why would it not be necessary to teach anyone self-defense? What world do you live in where being taught to defend yourself in case of an attack is a bad idea? No, sadly, it is not the cure-all for bad things, but it’s certainly not a bad idea, either.

Also great to watch, but only if you have a safe place to watch, your own computer, and/or you remember to delete your history:

Also helpful, but only if you can watch safely, without your abuser knowing:

Also, if it’s safe to have a copy, or you have a place to hide it, I highly recommend this book. It helped me more to see my reality than just about anything else did, at least as I as getting ready to leave:

Please do get the best help you can from friends, family, any professionals you can afford. It is hard, but worth it. I completely understand your fears, and do know you have to listen to yourself. You know better than anyone just how much more stress/fear/focused threats you can handle. It is not an easy choice, ever.

“ what percentage of men do you think are capable of such a heinous crime?”

I’ve heard him refer to himself in the third person before, and he does it in the book, too. You’re right about the script. He doesn’t seem to realise just how transparent he is, either. It’s so easy to check most of what he says online and see how much he’s lying with a lot of things, too. But he just keeps on lying.…

You can see how willing he is to lie here, too. At one point, he claims not to see bruises on photos of Nicole. A little later, he says that it’s just make-up, for a movie they were doing. He’ll say anything.

Paula Barbieri was with Michael Bolton at the Mirage in Vegas on the night of the murder.

I haven’t seen it yet. His sense of entitlement doesn’t surprise me. He even says several times, in If I Did It, that everything was Nicole’s fault, and that she even told him as much. He basically blames everything on her and feels very, very sorry only for himself. It’s appalling.

I posted this somewhere else, and I felt a lot better about buying it, because I agree with Fred Goldman about what it really is:

I like how you say that as if it’s a rat or possum loose in the attic.

I refused to read the book until a few days ago, after I found out the Goldman’s owned the rights. It is exactly the kind of self-serving bunch of lies you’d expect from a serial abuser/partner killer. Just massive lies. It’s amazing how he seems to have no clue how easy it is to refute most of what he says. Duane’s…

A good link from your Wikipedia one had this:

That’s the way sane, reasonable non-narcissists would look at it, but I don’t think that is the way he looked at it at all. He’s a typical abuser. He probably thinks he’s done nothing wrong, not that he got away with murder and should behave from now on.

Sick joke is the way I remember so much of it, at least as reported at the time. I was in a bar, at a going-away lunch with friends when the low-speed highway chase came on TV. It was surreal. First there was stunned silence, then the bartender turned the volume up, at the crowd’s insistence, and then we all started…

All the recent articles about this series made me look it up, too. I hadn’t thought or read about any of this in years. It’s still all very horrible, even worse than I remembered, really. That’s not what I would have imagined I’d have thought, since it was all sickening enough when it first happened.

I only knew about the afterward because I looked that book up a few days ago. Dunno did write some great articles about the case for Vanity Fair, and he’s definitely the writer I think of when I remember this case, too.

Sadly, Dominick Dunne didn’t co-write it. It would have been a much better book with Dunne writing. He just wrote the afterward. The ghostwriter was Pablo F. Fenjves.

It’s still available on Amazon.