Codes and Decoders

 

The Swiss Army watch code I stumbled on in Blackenstein when I saw the significance of March in the murder investigation of retired Air Force sergeant major Robert C. Hurd Jr. came from Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone. It started with Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood omission of the victim’s name and his false identification of him as a retired Army master sergeant coupled with the argument he made about the Swiss Army knife. He made those arguments in words, shaded mechanical drawings with precise dimensions and photos that hid the hammer-like quality of the German Stiletto heel but showed the Swiss Army logo. The key elements here were Army, sergeant, logo, major, hammer and the brand name of the watch that Nicole Simpson was wearing when she was killed.

 

Keep in mind that Rod Serling was a U.S. Army paratrooper (airborne) in World War Two and that the logo on the Swiss Army watch is located in the 12 o’clock position.

 

The movie Twelve O’clock High with Gregory Peck and Dean Jagger has a birthday link to Mark Fuhrman and a “costume” link to Fuhrman’s aviator jacket. It has a military school connection between Mark Fuhrman and Gregory Peck – who has a logo link to Kevin McCarthy and a character called The Major (a retired Army Major) in Mirage.  

 

The Hurd name led to Blackenstein and the 7 26 birthday link to the U.S. Air Force as well as to Jack Webb’s 714 and Fuhrman’s 214 badge numbers. The Twilight Zone’s “Dead Man’s Shoes” had multiple actor links to Rawhide with Clint Eastwood as cattle drover Rowdy Yates. Fuhrman identified himself with Eastwood in another role but the Rawhide connection came first and Rawhide is where the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade got its nickname, the Herd. In Peacemaker ('90) Robert Forster is Yates, a space alien who kidnaps an earth woman. Robert Davi is Sergeant Ramos, an LAPD detective. Forster is Steve Carroll in Murder in Greenwich (2002) with Christopher Meloni as retired LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman.

 

During the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, most Americans mispronounced the brand name of the Italian shoes commonly associated with the killer. That’s because most Americans first heard the Italian name “Magli” pronounced the way it looks according to English Language rules. Seeing the name didn’t help for the same reason. English speakers in general don’t know enough Italian spelling and pronunciation rules to know what sound to give to the “a” in Magli and to ignore the “g.”  We do know enough to treat the “i” on the end like the last letter in Charley or Charlie. If we had seen “Molly” in parentheses after Magli, we would know exactly how to pronounce it.

 

In the Bruno Magli example, Magli is the code and Molly is the decoder. We don’t normally think of words like these as codes and decoders – but they are.

 

Cipher means “code.” All words, numbers or other symbols that are intended to be decipherable only to the people who use it to communicate with each other covertly are codes. Sometimes the spelling is the key to the message. Sometimes it’s the sequence of symbols, the sound or the context. In any event, every code has a decoder, a master reference tool to translate it into an intelligible and accurate form. Find the translator and you can read the code if you have enough of the symbols to works with. You don’t need all of them. It is as Christopher Meloni as Mark Fuhrman tells his writing partner in Murder in Greenwich, “We just fill in the blanks. It’s algebraic. Find the value of x.”  

 

“To Serve Man”

 

The value of “x” in the Bundy murders is a book called Murder in Brentwood. It tells you why so many aspects of the case against O.J. Simpson look like they came from movie and television scenes. It tells you that they did come from movie and television scenes. Fuhrman groups “his” ideas in that book so tightly and so frequently around specific screenplay and teleplay elements that you can often go straight to the source. Moreover, you can pick up everyone and everything from those sources in a 5 % fraction or less of consecutive Murder in Brentwood pages that fill in the blanks.

 

In four months in 1994, Mark Fuhrman was the lead investigator in four Twilight Zone-related murders; one in March, one in April and two in June.

 

June is implicit in the calendar day on Nicole Simpson’s Swiss Army watch for the June murders. The 3 position on the watch is March. In the first paragraph of chapter 1, Fuhrman gives the October 2, 1996 calendar date of his court appearance for perjury and works in a reference to “waiting in the cafeteria.” Nicole’s 9-1-1 call was recorded on October 25, 1993. 2 (February) 5, 52 is Mark Fuhrman’s birthday. On the Swiss Army watch, 10 (for October) is equivalent to 22. In the first paragraph of chapter 2 Fuhrman gives the 1:05 time when his phone rings. He puts himself in the kitchen to answer it. 1 is January. 5 equals 17. January 17 is the date of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

 

O.J. defense attorney F. Lee Bailey posed the question much criticized at the time that ultimately resulted in Mark Fuhrman’s perjury conviction. Long before the O.J. criminal trial, Bailey was well known as a criminal trial lawyer and a polygraph expert. In 1982 he hosted a television program called Lie Detector. On page 244 of Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman writes after quoting a statement by F. Lee Bailey, “Bailey had a better chance of being abducted by aliens at lunch than proving I planted any evidence.” That sentence, all by itself, gives you everything to take you to the Swiss Army watch code in Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man,” which was first aired on March 2, 1962.

 

If you question the personal meaning of all these names, numbers and descriptions to Mark Fuhrman, ask yourself what personal meaning all of them have to anyone else you know.

 

Mark Fuhrman’s friend Kevin DeVries was also a polygraph expert. I didn’t know that when I wrote chapter 8 of The Smoking Gun in 1998, titled it “Twenty Two” and inserted an introductory picture block and caption featuring Kevin McCarthy. I had other reasons for doing that. http://www.smartfellowspress.com/smokinggun/Twenty.html#twenty-two. I expected readers to note for themselves that McCarthy’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers appearances came 22 years apart with a detour through The Twilight Zone. I don' t think they did.

 

Now consider the role polygraphs played in the O.J. Simpson case with O.J. who failed, Fuhrman who passed three years later, and in movies released prior to the Bundy murders where Earthlings were kidnapped by aliens:

 

Fire in the Sky (’93) is based on a true story. In 1975, Travis Walton said he was kidnapped by aliens while logging in the White Mountains of Arizona. The twist on this story is that he was in a seven man crew when he disappeared and every man in the crew passed a polygraph test that corroborated his story.

 

A rare grasp on how polygraph machines work can help some people beat the machine. It also takes a rare psychological profile that allows them to lie without fear of detection like the fictional character Katherine Tramell in Basic Instinct. In other words, the polygraph machine is not a lie detector. It’s a fear detector. It measures physiological responses to the test subject’s fear that the machine will register a given response as a lie. For all seven of the White Mountain loggers to possess this knowledge and to demonstrate this ability is at least as unlikely as one of them being kidnapped by aliens.

 

Mark Fuhrman said he was a LAPD union delegate on the night of the murders and left the seminar before a barbeque started. We’re talking about a proven liar who passed a polygraph test after writing a book that sometimes points to a specific screenplay or teleplay with key elements that appeared as key elements in that book. We’re talking about a book with hidden meanings and a lawyer “abducted by aliens at lunch.”

 

For most people lunchtime is around 12:00 noon, a fact that wasn’t lost on Rod Serling in his March 2, 1962 Twilight Zone teleplay “To Serve Man” starring Lloyd Bochner.

 

To put this in perspective you need to know that in the 1993 made-for-television movie Morning Glory, Lloyd Bockner is a defense attorney in a murder trial. Christopher Reeve (the alien from Krypton in Superman with Gene Hackman) is the defendant. In Murder in Brentwood (p. 292) Fuhrman ends his Taking the Fifth chapter in Ukiah with his friend Kevin DeVries and these words about having been caught in a lie by his own words on screenwriter Laura Hart’s audiotapes: “The trial of O.J. Simpson was over. It was now the trial of Mark Fuhrman.” Lloyd Bochner’s son is actor Hart Bochner. 

 

 “To Serve Man” begins with Canadian actor Lloyd Bochner as Michal Chambers, an alien kidnap victim, lying on a bunk smoking a cigarette onboard the alien’s spaceship. The first voice you hear comes through a speaker above the door that looks like a flashing coil in a clear glass dome. It says, “Mr. Chambers, Mr. Chambers. It is the mealtime. Kindly state your preference.”

 

Joseph Ruskin  is the voice of all the aliens. The thing to remember about him, although you never see him in the screenplay is that he has a pockmarked face.

 

Chambers swivels out of his bunk, stands, throws the cigarette butt on the floor and crushes it out with his shoe. He invites the voice to “take a flying leap at the moon.”

 

He pushes a button on the wall that opens a panel with a mirror. He pushes it again and gets a sink with a water tap. He splashes water on his face and ignores the voice telling him to conserve water. Then he goes back to his bunk and asks the voice what time it is. After some sparring about the relative meaning of time, the voice tells him that it’s 12 noon.

 

Chambers lies back on his bunk and lights cigarette with a match. As he exhales he mutters, “Twelve noon. Twelve noon.” Then you hear him thinking, “This is the way nightmares begin or, perhaps, end. Very simple, direct, unadorned. Incredible, yet so terribly real that even while they’re happening we live with them and digest them and assimilate them. And if it’s 12 o’clock noon, that’s what you preoccupy yourself with. You don’t think about 12 o’clock noon the next day or the day after that. But that’s what we should have been thinking about; tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. We were preoccupied with the hands on a clock when we should have been checking off a calendar.”

 

There it is.

 

Twelve noon is the Swiss Army logo. The hour gives you everything associated with Fuhrman in the 1949 Army Air Force movie Twelve O’clock High. The hands on Nicole Simpson’s Swiss Army watch represent civilian time as well as military time (the same as LAPD time). But if you look at the numbers on the clock as calendar dates instead of the hands on the clock as hours and minutes, you get everything in the Blackenstein Background Notes about the code. If you test the code against the 1:05 time that Ron Phillips called Fuhrman to tell him about the murders in Brentwood, you get the date of the 1994 Northridge earthquake and more. You get a map linking polygraph expert Kevin DeVries (lived in Northridge before he moved to Ukiah) Phillips, and the Robbery/Homicide detectives who would be taking the case from West L.A.

 

The 3 o’clock position on the Swiss Army watch gives you the month of March and a 1987 movie called Three O’clock High with Philip Baker Hall, John P. Ryan (appeared with O.J. in A Killing Affair), Jeffrey Tambor and Mitch Pileggi. There are few aspects of Fuhrman’s association with the O.J. case that don’t have links those three actors to. And they all funnel into The Twilight Zone by way of Jeffrey Tambor’s role in “Dead Woman’s Shoes” with Helen Mirren and Nana Visitor (both born on July 26). In Europe and the military that date would be written 26 7 for the day followed by the month.

 

Mark Fuhrman investigated the murder of Dawn Gamez on April 6, 1994. He zeroed in on her husband Harold Gould as the killer almost immediately, rejecting Gould’s story that he struggled with an intruder who had a pockmarked face and a goatee. The trouble with Fuhrman’s rejection of Gould’s story is that it has salient features of one of his.

 

Chambers tells his story in flashback of how he came to be on the ship beginning with 12 noon on the day in April when spaceships landed on Earth. The signs in the picture of people, tucks and cars on the busy cobblestone backstreet tell you what they mean to Mark Fuhrman. Windsor is the town closest to the Santa Rosa Airport where Fuhrman flew to meet his polygraph expert buddy Kevin Devries after the Laura Hart tapes exposed him as a liar. The “..PER & SON GOLD” sign on the right needs no explanation. Neither does the “Florist” sign partially obscured by the “WINDSOR CAFETERIA” sign. You know what the thick + sign means in Murder in Brentwood and you know that Fuhrman erroneously called the surface of the murder scene walkway “cobblestone” (page 12).

 

 

The cafeteria sign is a typical Rod Serling clue about what is in store for the people in the picture. It’s a code. If you decipher the code you know what’s going to happen to them. Serling drops another clue about what is going to happen when Chambers says, "...we milled around like frightened farm animals looking for formulas and father images."

 

As word of the space ship landings spread The United Nations meets in an emergency session. The secretary general tells delegates and reporters the little he knows. There have been other landings in the United States, Europe and South America. The aliens call themselves Kanamits. They have made no hostile moves.

 

A formally attired man in a hat carrying s briefcase and walking with a stiff, brisk stride walks into the room and gives the secretary general the latest news. A spaces ship has landed a few blocks away. Seconds later a towering shadow crosses over the delegates. They look up in amazement at the 9’ tall humanoid in a long white gown – a Kanamit carrying a book. He seems to refer to the book occasionally as he addresses the delegates.

 

Richard Kiel is the Kanamit ambassador. He does not move his lips as he speaks because Kanamits do not communicate verbally. His voice (Joseph Ruskin, the actor with the pockmarked face) is mechanical. His huge head is necessary to house his huge brain. Kanamits are far more advanced than humans. The Kanamit assures the humans that their only motive is to give the people of Earth the peace and prosperity that Kanamits enjoy. He offers the human’s fantastic devices that will end natural and manmade catastrophes like famine and war and urges them to test the noble intentions of his people by simply testing the devices. He places the book on a table and leaves.

 

The Kanamits make good on their promises big time. Barron soil becomes fertile. Force fields around cities make war on earth obsolete. Chambers calls the Kanamits “Santa Clause” without white whiskers – although the Kanamit ambassador to the U.N. did sport a light-colored goatee.  Rod Serling, in his introduction to the teleplay, calls them “Christopher Columbus.”

 

Some military men are not convinced that the Kanamit intentions are benign. Two Army Signal Corps colonels (Bartlett Robinson and Carleton Young – the Army prosecutor in Sergeant Rutledge) believe that they can find the answer if they can decode the Kanamit book. They want Chambers, the top decoding specialist for the U.S. government, to tell them “exactly” what the book says. They already have a big clue in the number of letters and the sound of the first two syllables in “Kanamit” but nobody sees it. If the Kanamits where human they might have seen it. They aren’t. They are merely humanoid.  

 

Chambers and his team do their best. Chambers explains as he stands before a wall map showing part of Earth, “We tried pretty much of everything; single transposition, double transposition. We’ve tried every know method of cryptology there is…standard, direct, reversed, systematically mixed, keyword mix, random mix, reciprocal, conjugate – every nature of sequence there is.” However, Cambers does not share the colonels’ concern. He was impressed by the wonderful things the Kanamits promised and delivered on in just eight hours. The evidence of their good intentions are obvious and his gut feeling is that they are “looking a gift horse in the mouth.” A colonel asks him if that's his professional judgment or just "Kentucky windage."

 

Chambers' decrypting associate Patty hurries into the room with news that they have deciphered the title of the book, “To Serve Man.” She puts the handwritten not on the table in front of chambers. Sounds good to Chambers. Patty and the colonels want to believe that the title is as altruistic as it sounds but they aren’t sure what to make of it.

 

In the coming weeks the Kanamits pile on a mountain of evidence that they really are the good guys they claim to be. Their U.N. ambassador even agrees to submit to a polygraph test administered, of course, by an expert and recorded on film.

 

The expert first explains to the full assembly of U.N. delegates on a large screen how the polygraph works with the Kanamit hooked up to the machine. The test is simultaneously shown on television around the world.

 

The expert explains that because the Kanamit physiology is unknown, he must first determine whether their responses to the machine are the same as humans. To do this he asks the Kanamit to answer a question with an obvious lie. He does. The graph needles on the polygraph go wild, showing that he is lying. The expert asks him to answer the same question again. The obvious truth shows up on the machine as a steady beat. The expert does this twice on film and tells the audience that similar tests were performed repeatedly to show that the space alien’s physiological responses to the machine were, indeed, the same as humans.

 

Now comes the big question. “What is the motive of the Kanamit people in offering such great gifts to the people of the Earth?”

 

The Kanamit replies, “I hope that the people of Earth will understand and believe when I tell you that our mission on this planet is simply this: to bring to you the peace and plenty, which we ourselves enjoy, and which we have in the past brought to other races throughout the galaxy. When your world has no more hunger, no more war, no more needless suffering – that will be our reward.”

 

Chambers tells us, “And the machine showed no deviation. According to it, the Kanamit was telling the truth.”

 

Actually the Kanamit was telling the truth. He did hope that the people of Earth would “understand” and believe his bullshit.

 

And they did.

 

Everything they saw, heard and experience for themselves told them how beneficent the space aliens were. Hunger? Gone. Disease? Gone. War? A thing of the past. The Kanamits set up embassies in every country and arranged tours for earth people to visit their planet. There were now a few thousand Kanamits on earth and for every one of them who came here a thousand humans went to their planet. It was a no-brainer. The Kanamits had demonstrated their altruistic intentions on Earth and the evidence that their home planet was like a combination of Disneyland and the Garden of Eden was convincing. Earth people who went there aboard the alien spaceships raved about the place in letters to friends and relatives.

 

You get a good feel for the spirit of the times with people lining up to board a spaceship on flight 267 (as in 26 7 or 26 July). They pack little or no luggage as they tell each other about what they heard they would experience when they got there. A woman heard from her sister that she would go on a shopping spree where clothes were spun of gold and she could get all she wanted. A man is beside himself with the prospect going to another planet that has a game similar to baseball, with leagues and everything. No one questions why they weigh in on a scale before they go aboard or why the friendly Kanamit who weighs the smiles so broadly when a man weighs in considerably heaver than most.

 

With no more wars and no more need for secret messages, Michael Chambers and his staff of decoders have noting to do. He and Patty are on a long waiting list to go to the Kanamit home planet. Months have passed and they have gotten no farther in cracking the Kanamit book code than the title, “To Serve Man.” Chambers has given up on it. Patty is sill plugging away just for the hell of it. She thinks she’s close.

 

Finally Michael Chambers’ name comes up on the waiting list and he happily begins mounting the stairs to the spaceship. He hears Patty’s voice calling to him and stops to wave at her. But he sees a moment later that she didn’t push ahead of the line to wish him bon voyage. She says, “Don’t get on that ship. The rest of the book…It’s a cookbook!

 http://www.tvacres.com/cooks_kanamits.htm

Recognition of what she’s saying begins to break across his face. Full recognition that he is being abducted by beings who regard humans the way humans regard cattle turns to panic. A Kanamit raises the stairs as Chambers fights to get off. Too late. The stairs retract to become a closed door. The ship zooms up and away. Michael Chambers is the first of humanity to leave the planet kicking and screaming. The rest were taken the alien slaughterhouse by guile.  

 

 

 

 

The spaceship is the one used in the 1956 sci-fi classic, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Space aliens kidnapped humans in that movie, too. However, they weren’t the extraterrestrial equivalent of cattle drovers and “lunch” had nothing to do with it. It had nothing to do with a liar passing a lie detector test and it didn’t have Lloyd Bochner

 

For anyone who thinks the extraterrestrial "cattle drover" link between Bockner in "To Serve Man" and to Mark Fuhrman in Murder in Brentwood is a weak one, consider this:

 

In Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman associated a phone number (his own) with a kitchen when he wrote that he answered the "1:05" phone call from Phillips in his kitchen. In his 5th Bundy crime scene note (page 20) he writes, "Handwritten note on upstairs coffee table, 'Cara 575-5713 Cal Pizza Kitchen.' Pizza menu by female victim's left leg."  One is equal to 13 on the Swiss Army watch. 5 is equal to 17. 1 (the hour of Phillips' call), 5 (the minutes), 7 and 3 are the only digits in the number. 173 is the Herd. On page 207 he writes, "Nicole Brown Simpson is sitting in the upstairs living room of her townhome. A telephone and two take-out menus are nearby. Perhaps she is on the phone, or she is planning to order some food for her friend who is coming over." Three paragraphs later on page 208 he has her passing through her kitchen.

 

Now consider this:

 

The Kanamit brought his cookbook into a room where a man in a suit and tie behind him was taking handwritten notes and he left his book on a table. Cookbooks are normally kept in a kitchen. Do you suppose sharp knives and human blood have anything to do with the preparation? What do you suppose the Kanamit cookbook suggested for pizza toppings? If you think that pizza is a stretch, it could be because I left out a few things. One of the things I left out was what Chambers said when he saw the translation of the book title. He said, "Well, that makes the cheese a little more binding, wouldn't you say, colonel?" You'll see just how significant that is when you see another screenshot I left out, the one that came just before the shot of the street with the signs that said, "Gold," "Florist," and "Windsor."

 

 

All you need to see here is the Pepsi sign on the far right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo click on the link and scroll down about halfway to "Former brands." They include Kentucky Fried Chicken (remember Colonel Sanders?), Pizza Hut and California Pizza Kitchen (from 1992 to 1997). One of the Signal Corps Colonels is leaning over the desk with his hands on each side of a telephone when Patty brings in the handwritten note about the book title.

 

The significance of the cookbook is not that humans are ingredients in the recipes; it's that recipes are formulas and the formulas for the Bundy murders, preceded by the Gamez murder and the Hurd murder where formulas taken from movies and put into Fuhrman's first book. 

 

Here is what Michal Chambers says about menus as he finishes his story and his hunger is about to get the better of him even though he knows he's being fattened up for slaughter:

 

"How about you? Are you still on earth or on the ship with me? It doesn't make much difference because sooner or later we'll all of us be on the menu -- all of us."  

   

 

Fuhrman’s Fifth

 

There is another way to check the validity of the proposition that Fuhrman’s “abducted by aliens at lunch” line came from the “To Serve Man” episode of The Twilight Zone.

 

Playing the Scrabble game with one line in Fuhrman’s 5th Bundy note gives you Kanamit

 

Cal Pizza Kitchen Pizza menu

 

Cal Pizza itchen Pizza menu

 

K

Cl Pizza itchen Pizza menu

 

Ka

 

Cl Pizza itche Pizza menu

 

Kan

 

Cl Pizz itche Pizza menu

 

Kana

 

Cl Pizz itche Pizza enu

 

Kanam

 

Cl Pizz tche Pizza enu

 

Kanami

 

Cl Pizz che Pizza enu

 

Kanamit

 

Mark Fuhrman “took The Fifth” for telling a “stupid” lie under oath. It was anything but stupid if he was planning to write a book based on a formula for selling himself as the author of a surefire bestseller. If he was planning to write such a book,  when did he decide to do it?

 

Look at what you get with all of the letters in Mark Fuhrman’s 5th note used as Scrabble letters to choose from:

 

Handwritten note on upstairs coffee table, “Cara 575-5713 Cal Pizza Kitchen.” Pizza menu by female victim’s left leg.

 

Handr note n upstars coffee table, “Cara 575-5713 Cal Piza Kitcen.” Pizza menu by femae victim’s left le.

Twilight Zone –

 

 

Handr note n upstars coffee table, Cara 575-5713 Cal Piza Kitcen. Pizza menu by femae victim’s left le.

 

Hd n n upstar coffee table, Cara 575-5713 Cal Piza Kitcen. Pizza menu by femae icti’s left l.

Twilight Zone – to serve man

 

 

Hd n n upstar coffee table, Cara 575-5713 Cal Piza Kitcen. Pizza menu by femae icti’s left l.

Twilight Zone – to serve man

 

Hd n upstar ofe table, Car 575-5713 C Piz Ktc. Pizza menu by femae icti’s left l.

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face –

 

 

Hd n upstar ofe table, Car 575-5713 C Piz Ktc. Pizza menu by femae icti’s left l.

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face –

 

d n upst of table, Car 575-5713 Piz Ktc. Pizza menu y feae icti’ left l.

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers

 

 

 

d n upst of table, Car 575-5713 Piz Ktc. Pizza menu y feae icti’ left l.

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers

 

d pst of table, Car 575-5713 Piz Ktc Pizza menu y feae icti’ left l

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N.

 

 

d pst of table, Car 575-5713 Piz Ktc Pizza menu y feae icti’ left l

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N.

 

d pst of table, Car 575-5713 Piz Ktc Pizza menu y fea cti’ left

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N. – lie

 

In “To Serve Man” the humans bought a lie that made them think they were boarding a space ship to Eden while they were being herded aboard a cattle car on its way to a slaughterhouse. From here you can go in that direction with the letters you have left to spell “cattle car” and “Yates” (Clint Eastwood’s cattle drover character in Rawhide) while leaving the “Pizza menu” intact.

 

d pst of table, Car 575-5713 Piz Ktc Pizza menu y fea cti’ left

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N. – lie –

 

d pt of bl, 575-5713 Piz Ktc Pizza menu fe i’ f

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N. – lie – cattle car – Yates

 

Fuhrman’s choice of words in his fifth Bundy note also allows you to go another way after you extract the lie. Instead of cattle car and Yates you can get these incredible phrases:

 

 

d pst of table, Car 575-5713 Piz Ktc Pizza menu y fea ctileft

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N. – lie

 

p f bl, a 575-5713 P z c Pizza u y f c’ f

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N. – lie – Kanamit lie detector test

 

And…

 

p f bl, a 575-5713 P z c Pizza u y f c’ f

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N. – lie – Kanamit lie detector test

 

b, a 575-5713 P z c Pizza f c’ f

Twilight Zone – to serve man – an alien face – Chambers – U.N. – lie – Kanamit lie detector test – fly up – ABC

 

How is that for flexibility and detail? Those happen to be Mark Fuhrman’s watchwords. Look at the flexibility you get with “Chambers.” It is the face of an alien – not a Kanamit – an alien (Canadian) actor (Lloyd Bochner) who plays Chambers – and the base name to get CBS. “To Serve Man” was first broadcast on CBS. When CBS canceled the series in 1964 ABC offered to pick it up under a different name. Rod Serling refused the offer.

 

Any of these “To Serve Man” interpretations of Fuhrman’s fifth note gives you most of his handwritten characters, including the parentheses and the periods (Patty, a blonde woman, gave Chambers the decoded Kanamit cookbook title on a handwritten note). The phone number and a pizza stay intact with their own coded messages. A telephone number is a code. It represents a name on a telephone bill. In this case, it also represents a fax number closely linked to Fuhrman’s investigation of a murder victim in Nevada name Hurd.

 

No matter how you look at it, Fuhrman’s fifth note is a coded message (or two) with a telephone number untouched and a teleplay as the master decoder. This is Fuhrman in the early hours of June 13, 1994 telling Ron Phillips what we know he did in the following months leading to his testimony in the O.J. case, in writing his book and in promoting it.

 

Fuhrman met with Laura Hart McKinny (Lloyd Bochner’s son is Hart Bockner) for lunch at Alice’s Restaurant with a representative of Fred Dryer’s production company to pitch a screenplay. Fuhrman writes in his book that he believes O.J.’s defense learned about the tapes that exposed his lie in court at that lunch. Between his testimony in the preliminary trial and the criminal trial he flew up to the Santa Rosa Airport in Windsor to meet his friend Kevin DeVries, the polygraph expert. In the criminal trial he told a provable lie under oath about a derogatory word, of all things, that ultimately worked to his advantage. He said that he used it as a fictional character in a screenplay project.  

 

The controversy and drama set up by the revelation that Fuhrman did lie under oath, for whatever reason, was not an incidental part of his book-writing success. It was a key ingredient in a formula that assured the book’s success before he wrote it as the controversial first lead detective in one of the biggest murder trials of the 20th century and a star witness. On March 17, 1997, Fuhrman took a custom-designed polygraph test in private sponsored by his publisher. According to that polygraph expert, he passed. The results of the test were broadcast on ABC on March 19, 1997.  

 

Fuhrman’s fifth Bundy crime scene note is a precursor to this entire string of events.

 

One more thing (thanks to Rovaan)...

 

The five letters and the apostrophe left over from the Scrabble game with "To Serve Man," (P, Z, C, F, F) are not throwaways. When Chambers in space asks the Kanamit what time it is on Earth, the only time applicable to the entire planet is Z (Zulu -- military and aviation) time. Z stands for Greenwich Mean Time. From there the world is divided into time zones from A to Y with the exception of "J" -- 25 in all. This is another example of time relating to a map as you see with the Swiss Army watch and the time Ron Phillips called Mark Fuhrman to tell him about the Bundy murders.

 

P (Poppa) is the time zone that includes Argentina. The first U.N. delegate to pose a question to the Kanamit was from Argentina... "Why did you choose this planet to visit?"  C (Charlie) is the time zone that includes Russia. The last U.N. delegate to pose a question to the Kanamit ("What are your motives for coming here, quite uninvited?") was the delegate from the Soviet Union. F (Foxtrot) is a time zone occupied by one small group of islands south of Sumatra and northeast of Australia (a.k.a. Oz). You can't see that group of islans over Chambers' left shoulder on the world map as he explains different decoding methods, but that's where it is. Off the coast of Costa Rica is a single island called Cocos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocos_Island, the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island. "Cocos Island is located on almost the exact opposite side of the globe as a group of islands with the same name, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands south of Sumatra"

 

Costa Rica is represented early in "To Serve Man" by a U.N. worker setting identification placards in slots in front of empty delegate seats at noon just before the Kanamit ship lands nearby. Columbia is the "C" in CBS, which stands for Columbian Broadcasting Network, the network with one eye for its logo. The screenshots on this page came from a CBS video

 

 

 

On the page after Fuhrman's notes in Murder in Brentwood (page 22, paragraph 1) Fuhrman writes: "By now it was about 3:00 A.M. Brad [Roberts] and I were talking about being relieved from the scene and eating breakfast before beginning our normal shifts. Ron [Phillips] was standing nearby, and we asked him, half-jokingly, to take us to breakfast at Coco's restaurant, one of our favorite early morning eating spots."

 

That leaves only one "f.." You don't suppose it has anything to do with the name Fuhrman put at the top of his notes in the book? It's not "Foxtrot" but it has the same number of letters. --Jasper