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“The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park"

Are you watching “The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park”? Let’s chat. If not, skip this and go make a rental! * The thing that gets me is the fictional sex diary.  The defense wanted to make the victim look shady, so they claimed she’d kept a “sex diary,” a salacious account of her many conquests. This diary didn’t exist, though it would be so fascinating if it did (and also its existence would have nothing to do with the murder case, regardless of defense claims). It’s like the defense attorneys--grown men, professional men!--were dreaming up their own Upper East Side fan fiction, their own version of “Gossip Girl." In the days of Marie Antoinette, didn’t people sometimes invent false journals and attribute these writings to prominent national figures? Some things never change. * There’s more to say about the Catholic Church.  Linda Fairstein claims she has no reason to believe ex-Cardinal McCarrick raped Robert Chambers--but I see more than one reason to belie...