Criticisms
In June through September 2012 the legal blog "Trials & Tribulations", which reports on Californian trials and legal affairs, ran a five part series titled "Fact Checking Mark Bowden's Curious Vanity Fair Article on Stephanie Lazarus". The blog series disputed facts in Bowden's July 2012 Vanity Fair article, "A Case So Cold It Was Blue", suggested that quotes and states of mind of key persons in the narrative had been made up by Bowden to fit his story, and questioned whether Bowden had done any relevant interviews or had attended a single day of the murder trial of former LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus, whose case was the centerpiece of his story. In Part VI, published on T&T in October 2012, Bowden's editor at Vanity Fair, Cullen Murphy, declined to comment on the record about the errors in Bowden's article.
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