In exchange, he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter.. Yes, he killed her, but he was also a model inmate and had not once received any disciplinary incidents. But before long, Mark Putnam started to look more and more like a potential suspect, according to Monsters & Critics. Mark Putnams guilty plea on June 12, 1990, was unlike any an American courtroom had seen before. The FBI arrested Cat Eyes Lockhart in December 1987. Putnam had become involved in a risque sexual affair with Susan Daniels Smith, who by all accounts was from the rough side of town. An affair that eventually ended when Putnam strangled Smith. I cant believe they bought into Johnny C.s phrase about the glove, If it doesnt fit, you must acquit. Simpson is concerned, as sure as I am black and youre white, OJ is guilty.. Afterfailing, he confessed to Smith's murder on June 4, 1990, and told police where to find her body. Now Putnam had a dead body on his hands. After failing a polygraph examination, Putnam confessed and led authorities to where hed dumped Susans body. Huggins was hired as a technical advisor for Above Suspicion, the feature film based on the non-fiction book of the same name that depicts the tragic saga of Mark Putnam . However, the history is too long of black men being wrongfully treated by the justice system. Cat Eyes chief virtues were gregariousness, loquaciousness and generosity, wrote Joe Sharkey in his book Above Suspicion. Qualities admirable in law-abiding citizens, but problematic in bank robbers.. He disposed of the body after the killing . Furthermore, this has nothing to do with OJ getting under anyones skin or the color of ones skin. As an informant, Susan, who was 25 at the time, relayed the shotgun she'd seen with Lockhart that hinted at the possibility of another grand bank . Im sorry but theres something terribly wrong with that picture. While Mark Putnam always wanted to be an FBI agent, Carl Edwards "Cats Eyes" Lockhart said that he wanted to be a bank robber ever since he was a child, Joe Sharkey writes in "Above Suspicion." [7], Mark Steven Putnam (born July 4, 1959) is a criminologist and former FBI agent (1987-1990).
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