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Peter Manso becomes the star of the Christa Worthington scandal

Author takes center stage in Worthington case
Work for defense draws criticism


Author Peter Manso arrives at the Worthington hearing and creates an interesting intersection of key players; him because he's writing a book about the case and is facing possible charges relating to his sloppily stored firearms and District Attorney Michael O'Keefe, his nemesis, whose own guns were stolen a year ago from his home in a gated golf community known as the Ridge Club in Sandwich, a theft that was very little reported by its victim.  Peter Robbins photoTRURO - He wrote a sprawling biography of Norman Mailer, but years later the two became such bitter enemies that Mailer described him as a "poison-drip." He infuriated many in Provincetown with a gossipy book lamenting that the resort town has become a place where moneyed gays and lesbians talk mostly about real estate and remodeling...  Peter Manso, viewed by some as a self-promoting gadfly and others as a fearless truth-seeker, seems genetically predisposed to controversy. And now the 67-year-old Truro author, a bantam-sized and gravel-voiced Zelig of causes célèbres, is in the thick of another in his own backyard.

He has spent nearly three years working on a book for Simon & Schuster about the murder of Christa Worthington, the white fashion writer who was raped and stabbed to death in her house in a notorious 2002 slaying...

"The Cape is a suburb of redneck Mississippi"
Manso declined to discuss the episode on the advice of counsel. But given his strident criticism of the Worthington investigation - he told the Globe that police misconduct is so egregious that it makes him think "the Cape is a suburb of redneck Mississippi" - some relish his travails.  "The justice in all this is simply divine," wrote Peter Kenney, a Yarmouth blogger for CapeCodToday.com. "Now Manso will experience firsthand the effectiveness of all those same law enforcement officers he so arrogantly dismissed as fools and incompetents."..  Globe. 
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Read the previous reports on this famous Cape author below;

• McCowen’s Bid for Retrial Gets Major Boost
• Further allegations of juror bias surface in McCowen murder case
• Manso-so
• Explosive Charges on Tap in McCowen Retrial Attempt
• Charades played while McCowen fate weighed
• Boston Magazine's Explosive Story of Worthington Trial
• McCowen trial compared with Simpson's
• Is Manso sitting on a bombshell?
• Pistol-packin’ Peter hoisted by his own petard