In Greek Mythology the entrance to the land of Hades (an inaccurate euphemism for hell) is guarded by a dog named Cerberus, with three heads and the tail of a dragon. The only way the living could enter the gate guarded by Cerberus into the land of the dead and get out alive was to know the secret of getting past the dog. When you knew the secret it was easy. In other words, the breed of Nicole's dog is not significant; the name is.

Kato the Akita dog was named after O.J.'s houseguest Kato Kaelin who led Fuhrman to the bloody glove near the gate closest to the wall where Kato reported hearing three thumps. Kato Kaelin got the name from martial arts legend Bruce Lee who started his Hollywood career as "Kato" the limo driver/martial artist sidekick of the title character in the TV series The Green Hornet. Bruce Lee became an interracial movie star as the title character in the breakthrough marshal arts film Enter the Dragon. The high-kicking Bruce Lee was the "dragon." The position of the Karate fighter's hand with the fingers fully extended for the attack is called the "knife hand." As "Kato" and "The Dragon," Bruce Lee used two knife hands as well as his feet. A popular jacket sold to American servicemen in Vietnam featured a large silk dragon on the back.

Cerberus was a "composite" creature that matches the 3-divison structure of the Marine Corps (three headed dog) that Fuhrman was part of as an MP aboard ship in Vietnam. The dragon tail matches Fuhrman the martial artists (he told Laura Hart that he practiced his kicks on the way to work). Fuhrman tied the coins on Bundy near the rear gate to the killer by theorizing that the killer reached into his pocket for his keys and accidentally pulled out the coins. When photos of the coins were taken before Det. Tom Lange arrived, there were only two, a dime and a penny. Lange, formerly of the 9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam (nicknamed "the walking dead"), noted 22 cents, two dimes and two pennies. Two sides of a coin are, of course, heads and tails. Only with four coins can you get three heads and a tail.

This is what Fuhrman says on the McKinny tapes about 3 plus 1. "Go to Wilshire Division. Wilshire Division is all niggers. All niggers, nigger training officers, niggers ...with three years on the job. Think of that 3 plus 1."  Three white guys plus one "nigger" gives you Fuhrman, Roberts, Phillips and Shipp. Ron Shipp had been a training officer (like a drill instructor) at the Marine Cops-structured LAPD Academy. He ran a security company, practiced martial arts and could also represent the tail of the dog by the gate of Hades.

Fuhrman's "imagination" secret is that he imagines very little and borrows massively from various sources. He redefines numbers and their meanings. He superimposes elements from different screenplays on top of each other to get what he needs from them into each of his scenes.   He uses the same key elements in scenes he "creates" from cinematic sources and shifts them around.  He transposes victims and victimizers, males and females, blacks and whites and literal and metaphorical meanings. He merges real people and characters, sometimes attributing their defining characteristics to himself and sometimes his to them.

This is what Fuhrman says about composite characters on page 240 of Murder in Brentwood to explain the racist character he said he invented for himself on the McKinny tapes: "...Characters were developed from composts of many people...When I was making up dialogue, I spoke in the first person. But these weren't my own words, my own experiences, or my own sentiments, They were the words of fictional characters I created based on my imagination and experience..."

From Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood (page 21) Fuhrman’s 13th Bundy note: "AT REAR GATE ON N/S OF RESID – TWO BLOOD SPOTS AT BOTTOM INSIDE OF GATE. THIS AREA MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHERE THE DOG WAS KEPT. SUSP RAN THOUGH THIS AREA. SUSP POSSIBLY BITEN BY DOG?" ……… I don’t know why it took so long for me to see the dragon-tailed, three-headed dog connection here to Fuhrman and the Smokey the Bear hat. The USMC is a military triad (a union of three) composed of thee combat divisions (three heads of the same “devil dog”) and the 3rd Division which Fuhrman served with aboard ship as an M.P. was called the Triad Davison.  You might note the similarity between the Triad and the symbol for the Mercedes Benz, which Fuhrman noted in his "baseball bat incident" letter to the city attorney in 1989.

Wherever "Devil Dog" associations to O.J. and Nicole appear, so does Mark Fuhrman. The more specific they get to Cerberus, the more specific they get to Fuhrman. The same is true for bears and someone or something with wings. Page 110 of Murder in Brentwood:: "Brad won the job of driving me home to await my evening flight to Santa Rosa and then on to Ukiah... Normally I enjoy airports. especially LAX. I liked getting there an hour before the flight, or ever earlier, so I could drink a cup of coffee and watch people. I analyzed their dress, walk, grooming..."  

In the 1978 made for television movie Devil Dog, The Hound of Hell, Kim Richards, the sister of Kathy Hilton, appears with a one-time actress in a bit part named Karpf. Faye Resnick is the godmother of Kim Richard's niece Nicky Hilton.  Only Faye Resnick identified Nicole's missing keys found in O.J.'s traveling bag as having a bear on the key ring. Nicole Simpson's next door neighbor Lewis Karpf was the last person to see her dog before it was found by Steven Schwab. There were three dogs on Bundy within the timeframe that Karpf saw Nicole's Akita. Karpf saw a man walking another dog and Schwab's dog was with Schwab.

Recurring themes with ex-Marine and retired LAPD Detective II Mark James Fuhrman include:

1) Someone or something with wings - In Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman made an issue of naming his top three athletes. First was heavyweight boxing champion George Forman who made TV ads for Nike and KFC http://www.smartfellowspress.com/smokinggun/Creating-1html.htm (search "chicken"). Second and third were Michael Jordan (played college basketball with the North Carolina Tarheels) and Larry Bird. Nike named a line of shoes after Jordan called "Air Jordans." Fuhrman's character in Murder in Greenwich wears Nikes. A slang term for feet is "dogs." Fuhrman constantly referred to the bloody shoeprints on Bundy as "footprints." He made an issue of the heel print with the heart shaped pool of blood on it. Blood, like tar, is both slick and sticky until it dries. North Carolina has a Marine training base (Smoky the Bear hats) next to Fort Bragg, home of the Army's Special Forces and 82nd Airborne Division. The first parachute badge that everyone, including Recon  Marines, earn at the Army jump school in Georgia is called "blood wings." http://www.bragg.army.mil/AbnRecruiting/history.htm.

2) Bears -- Before Fuhrman's testimony in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial he left a message on his answering machine that said he was going bear hunting.

3) Keys -- Found a key to a room in O.J.'s house where he watched his partner Brad Roberts take O.J.'s traveling bag while a uniformed cop put him in handcuffs. Keys on a Smokey the Bear key ring were later found in that bag.

4) Satanism  -- Numerous Satanic references including his metaphor of the killer signing his name in blood with the blood on the back gate where he speculated in his 13th Bundy note that the dog was kept and the killer was bitten by the dog. "Biten" is the only word in his notes that Fuhrman misspells. The sharp wooden stick that Fuhrman said he and Roberts traced to its source has a Dracula connection, which also has a Devil connection. Like the Devil, Dracula could transform himself into bats (the shape of the stain above the heart on the heel print --Lucifer is often depicted with batwings) and dogs. In popular movies 13 is represented as an evil number with witches and their demonic companions, who are usually cats but sometimes dogs. In a Tarot card deck XIII is the Death card.

4) Caps -- Photo on Bundy with the dark blue knit cap near the front gate -- Fuhrman made an issue of Christopher Darden's baseball cap. CAP is the acronym for Civil Air Patrol, which Lee Harvey Oswald belonged to before he joined the Marine Corps.

5) Diamonds -- The shape of the walkway tiles on Bundy in their Fuhrman pointing finger photo orientation -- His McKinny tape reference to assaulting a suspect on a baseball diamond. The 1989 New Years Day incident that gave O.J. his record as a spouse abuser on the strength of Fuhrman letter to the city attorney, began with an argument over a pair of diamond earrings.

6. Gold -- The Marine Corps' colors are red and gold. In the U.S. Armed Forces silver (the silver dimes found with the copper pennies) outranks gold because the silver was originally real and "gold" referred only to the color of brass. Brass is an alloy composed of copper and tin. Fuhrman claimed that he saw a bloody fingerprint (red) on the "brass" (gold) lock of Nicole's back gate. The name of one victim in the Bundy murders was Goldman. Nicole was wearing gold earrings. Many links to Fuhrman and the murders go back to the San Francisco Bay Area and highway 101, which crosses the Golden Gate Bridge. 

7) Crucifix (Ankh) -- Nicole was photographed with O.J. wearing a large crucifix. She was not wearing one when she died. However, Ron Goldman was wearing an Ankh, an ancient Egyptian symbol for eternal life that meshes with the Christian concept of eternal life though Christ, one aspect of the Christian Trinity (the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost). The number 666 distinctly identifiably in the way Fuhrman wrote the last two digits of his LAPD service number in his first book, represents the three aspects of Satan. The Devil is also represented in an inverted crucifix. The upper portion of the Marine Corps anchor is the same as the upper portion of the Ankh.   

8) English --British and Canadian Royalty (the airport he flew into to get the Ukiah, CA was in Windsor, CA), Greenwich, Sherlock Holms, Jack the Ripper. Collection of English WW I and II military daggers.

9) German -- Folklore (Faust making a deal with the Devil by signing his name in blood) -- Nazi symbolism, the German Stiletto and private collection of military daggers from WW I and II.

10) French -- Fuhrman's French connection begin on the McKinney tapes with a sexual reference Fuhrman makes that is usually reserved as an epithet only for male homosexuals and prostitutes. It also has a Greenwich connection to a suspect that Fuhrman clears in his Murder in Greenwich book and movie. It is a link to Jackie Kennedy's blood gloves (her heritage was French and she spoke the language fluently). In the movie A Bridge Too Far, elements of the 101 and 82nd Airborne Division are prominently featured in capturing bridges along a highway through Belgium from France.

Look in The Smoking Gun Picture Gallery for more pictures related to some of these themes. --Jasper