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Chapter 28

The Psychic’s Eye 

Whether or not you believe in psychic power, you have to take into account the affect it has on people who do.

A lonely, attractive woman sees a tall, handsome stranger with a star-spangled shirt in a supermarket. She will most likely look at him and keep shopping. If someone she believes has psychic powers tells her that she will meet a tall, handsome stranger with a star-spangled shirt in a supermarket who will sweep her off her feet, her actions will probably be different. She might flirt with him, approach him with a pickup line, bump into him or arrange for him to “accidentally” bump into her. If you are a friend of this woman and you discover that the “psychic” and the man in the star-spangled shirt are close associates, you will probably want to do some investigating.  You will probably seek out exploitations for the prediction and the meeting that don’t involve chance or ESP.  

If you believe in legitimate psychics like Elizabeth in Murders Vision (’91) or Tess Staton in The First Power and you are plotting to commit a high-profile murder you can “psychic-proof” yourself. All you have to do is scramble the already chaotic images that a psychic might get of you as the killer. Fuhrman psychic-proofed himself with the rumor he started about having an affair with Nicole Simpson and feeling responsible for her death because he didn’t protect her against O.J. O.J. said that he felt responsible for Nicole’s murder for not protecting her. People close to fatal heart attack victims feel the same way. Guilt is a common component of grief. How is a psychic supposed to tell the difference? 

Another complication for a psychic in seeing Fuhrman as the killer on the bloody murder scene and his hand in the killer’s glove is the photo he had taken of him on the bloody murder scene pointing to the glove. A psychic impression of the killer in O.J.’s bedroom gets you nowhere with Fuhrman as the killer because it was O.J.’s bedroom and Fuhrman was there as an investigator. At every turn, all the way down to the killer’s height, build, shoe size and relationship with Nicole, Fuhrman’s image is the same as O.J.’s. If Fuhrman masqueraded as O.J. and planted the idea that O.J. wore a mask, a psychic knowing that O.J. was an actor who played the part of an LAPD detective might see him as the killer.

The Fuhrman movie collection is bloated with psychics. With Fuhrman as the killer, that isn’t surprising. Fuhrman says in Murder in Brentwood (page 237). “Sensing Nicole’s fear and anguish, I asked her if she wanted to make a crime report against her husband… She said no… I wanted to make her realize her desperate situation, so I said, ‘It’s your life.’”  

Sounds prophetic, doesn’t it? Just look at what he said he witnessed and ask yourself: What crime? What fear? The couple had an argument. O.J. beat up his car. Nicole was not hurt. She did not try to run away. There was no indication that she was in danger and no record of O.J. hurting or threatening to hurt anyone. O.J.’s so-called “pattern of violence” against Nicole began with Mark Fuhrman in 1989. How, then, did he know in 1984 that O.J. posed a threat to her life? How did Fuhrman know she was in a desperate situation with O.J.? According to him, he sensed it. 

Coincidentally, Fuhrman’s vision of Nicole’s future came true. Coincidentally, he had a connection to every alleged incident of O.J. abusing Nicole, including the release of the 1993 911 tape kept in the city attorney’s office. Coincidentally, Fuhrman had a friend in the city attorney’s office and, coincidentally, Fuhrman was available to answer the call when Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered. Coincidentally, he had demonstrated ambitions dating back to 1976 “to make the big arrest” and ambitions dating back to 1985 to become a celebrity author like former NYPD detective Joseph Wambaugh. Could he have had a murders vision and helped to make his dreams come true by committing murder and framing O.J.?  

Real or fake, psychics say the same thing about their extrasensory impressions. Controlled experiments bear them out. They are random and often symbolic like the images in a dream. Psychics like Cayce Bridges in Fear (’89) might see aspects of the murder scene or the bodies that the police held back or reported incorrectly to weed out crackpots. Their descriptions of the killer sometimes match other people with an innocent or tangential part in the murders or someone other than the killer with similar traits. This is what happened to Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos in the Boston Strangler case. He got strong impressions of a man with violent fantasies and severe psychiatric problems who only watched the news reports on television.

Alley Sheedy as Casey Bridges is special with respect to Mark Fuhrman and the “Murder in” books that made him a famous non-fiction writer. Sheedy is Jessica in Maid to Order (’87) with Michael Ontkean who plays Sheriff Harry S. Truman in Twin Peaks (’90) with Ray Wise as Leland Palmer, a Washington State serial killer. Grace Zabriskie is Leland’s psychic wife Sarah. Kyle MacLachlan is a psychic detective. 

One Ally Sheedy biography lists her birthday as June 12. Another one lists it as June 13. Her Cayce character gained national attention as a student at Leland College South Carolina by leading police to a serial killer and writing a book about it. Four years later she appears on an L.A. television talk show, which begins with the host giving the time as “22 minutes past the hour.” Afterwards, in her dressing room, you see purple flowers when Loren Hutton as Cayce’s friend and agent Jessica talks her into writing one more psychic detective book. Her next subject that the police call The Shadow Man is also psyche. He smothers Jessica with a plastic bag he finds in her car. 

On June 13, 1994 Mark Fuhrman led his fellow detectives to all of the clues that connected O.J. Simpson to the murder of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson. He saw things, imagined things or otherwise associated himself with things in one place that he thought were significant and he or his partner discovered things in another place that proved he was right.

A photographer that Fuhrman knew from previous cases took the photo of him pointing to the glove on Bundy before he discovered the matching glove on Rockingham. His partner was unaccounted for at the time.  

Fuhrman guessed that Nicole’s dog bit the killer on Bundy. O.J. turned out to have a cut finger on Rockingham. Fuhrman saw a large plastic bag and a shovel in O.J.’s Bronco that suggested to him O.J.’s intention of wrapping the bodies in the plastic and burying them. When he found the glove he also found a small piece of plastic. He said that he first thought the Rockingham glove was a pile of dog poop.  

Chicago police later found an entrenching tool that was reported as the murder weapon. The plastic came as standard equipment with the Bronco. The shovel was a pooper-scooper for O.J.’s dog.

Sometimes psychics are ahead of the detectives as Cayce Bridges is on the “Shadow Man” case with Stan Shaw as Det. Webber. Psychics pick up a name or part of a name, as you see with Lee Horsley as the psychic in The Face of Fear (’90). In the end, so much of what a psychic perceives about a murder is useless. You can do better with conventional, phone-calling, door-knocking, record-checking investigation and analysis of the available evidence. In reality, as in the movies, psychics are used only when all conventional methods of investigation fail.  

In Cayce’s dressing room you see thee books stacked on a table next to a hairbrush, a pair of high-heal shoes a pencil and a hairbrush. You find out later that the killer sent her high heals identical to a pair she ruined in Huston. The top book is entitled Murder Driven. Jessica comes in to talk Cayce into doing another psychic detective book for publisher Raymond Tarr. Cayce doesn’t want to do it. The woman from South Carolina eventually gives in. A comparable Murder in Greenwich sequence includes the stack of three i Murder in Brentwood books. It has photos inside of a killer’s shoeprints and a special note about the heel. Mark and Caroline disagree about Mark doing another “Murder in” book and Caroline finally gives in. 

That Murder in Greenwich scene comes shortly after a friend of Martha discovers her body and you see Fuhrman reporting to his probation officer “22 years later.” He signs his name in red ink like the 19^th century serial killer Jack the Ripper. Then you see him in his kitchen discussing his next book with his wife Caroline. The following scene is where you see three copies of Murder in Brentwood stacked on a table next to two pencils and Caroline coming in to give Mark her blessings on his next book project. Those copies of the same book stand in nicely for Fuhrman’s three bestsellers, all published before he made his Murder in Greenwich movie. His third book, Murder in Spokane, is about a serial killer in Washington State that the police would have captured sooner if they had cooperated with him and followed his investigative techniques.  

This is just the sort of jumbled message a psychic might get and misinterpret as coming from another source if he or she didn’t see Fear. For anyone who did see Fear no paranormal explanation is necessary. The normal workings of the human mind explain everything.

The same thing happened with the makers of Fear. You have a character named Raymond, an actor named Shaw, and Cayce talking on a telephone to a character named Jessica about Raymond, Shaw and a killer. When the conversation ends you see Cayce looking through a picture window at a man alone piecing together a large jigsaw puzzle. Before the camera zooms in on the puzzle you might get the feeling that it is going to, and when it does you will see the queen of diamonds. You would get that feeling if you saw The Manchurian Candidate and Murder, She Wrote. When the camera does zero in on the puzzle you see that it is the queen of diamonds. You did not have a psychic experience. 

The people responsible for putting that puzzle on the table could have done it as an inside joke, as homage to The Manchurian Candidate or just because someone had the puzzle and it somehow looked right for the scene. Some of that sequence is deliberate. Some is coincidence. Some is free association. None of it is psychic. Cayce wrote books about her involvement in real murder investigations. In The Manchurian Candidate the killer’s name is Raymond Shaw. His mother turns him into a killer with a phone call, a game of Solitaire and the queen of diamonds. Angela Lansbury, the actress playing Ramon Shaw’s mother, is Jessica in Murder, She Wrote. She is also a writer in Death on the Nile with Lois Chiles (Coma/Diary of a Hitman) and Mia Farrow (MF) 

I saw this deliberate, coincidental and fee association pattern in the photo of Mark Fuhrman pointing to the glove with the constellation of other clues no more than an 8” radius away from his hand. He reproduced the photo in his Murder in Brentwood book. I compared it to a still shot of the items found at the feet of murder victim Annie Chapman in Jack the Ripper (’88) with Michael Caine. When I saw that each “clue” left by the killer in Fuhrman’s pointing finger photo matched up place-for-place and item-for-item in the Jack the Ripper shot, I knew that O.J. didn’t commit the murders. I knew that the killer framed him. And I knew that all of the clues left by the killer and all of the notes, observations and discoveries made by Mark Fuhrman came from the movies.  

The ESP experiments carried out by J. B. Rhine and Carl Zener at Duke University in North Carolina used 25 cards designed by Zener. The Zener cards consisted of 5 circles, squares, stars, plus signs and wavy lines. The probability of a test subject guessing the randomly selected card a researcher is looking at outside of the subject’s view is therefore one in five. If you consistently score two in five you are exceptional.  

The Bundy killer scored five out of five with respect to Jack the Ripper (’88) but you’d never see it without the photo of Mark Fuhrman pointing to the glove. From Hell (’01) gives you a closer representation of the items left by the historical Jack the Ripper. They have no relationship to the items and the arrangement of them in Jack the Ripper (’88). However, Jack the Ripper (’88) features a psychic who sees the murders and the killer symbolically. In From Hell, the detective is psychic. 

A modification of the Zener card test uses drawings of physical objects in place of abstract symbols. You can use anything as a target from an albatross pendent to a Zippo cigarette lighter. The odds against getting one or more defining characteristics of the target objects by chance are so extreme that even a wing or a cameo for the albatross and a zipper or house on fire for the Zippo would count as hits. The odds against scoring five hits on five objects in the same place under similar circumstances are astronomical. That’s why fake psychics make “insignificant errors.” The have to make them to hide their knowledge of more than they could know by normal or paranormal means. 

No real person has ever consistently scored three out of five. That’s why “real” psychics like Elizabeth in Murderous Vision make errors, especially interpretation errors. It’s the nature of he beast. Like dreams, they are always incomplete, usually symbolic and sometimes fuzzy or scrambled. With her psychic eye Elizabeth sees her missing friend Ellen alive, holding a rose, and looking up at the sky. With her physical eyes, she sees a figure at a distance about Ellen’s height in Ellen’s clothes with Ellen’s long, blonde hair. She gets a glimpse of Ellen’s face as the figure hurries away. But as the blonde in Ellen’s clothes spins around pointing a gun at her head, Elizabeth sees that the killer, Claude Stim, is wearing Ellen’s face as a mask. 

Detective Kyle Robashaw and his partner Bo have discovered that Ellen’s faceless corpse is holding a rose and looking up at the sky from a shallow grave. Robashaw uncovers her body when he sees a rose sticking out of freshly dug earth and pulls on the stem. Ellen’s hand clutching the stem in a death grip comes up with it. The next thing that happens might give you flashes of Christopher Meloni as Mark Fuhrman if you know that actress Glenn Close was born in Greenwich Connecticut and Amanda Plummer father is Christopher Plummer… Glen Plummer as Bo squats down and covers Ellen’s body with his leather jacket.  

You will see something similar with Mark Fuhrman in his leather jacket squatting down on Martha Moxley’s murder site imagining that he has time traveled 22 years to 1975 with her body on the ground in front of him. This Murder in Greenwich scene has much in common with the photo you see of Fuhrman squatting down next to Nicole’s body pointing at the leather glove. Fuhrman was an avid hunter. He killed and skinned animals for sport. When reporters tried to get him on the phone before his perjury conviction they got his voice on his answering machine saying that he went bear hunting.  

When you skin a bear, the body looks so much like a man that some experienced hunters who never skinned a bear before never do it again. Leather is animal skin. Humans are animals. The leather mask that Hannibal Lector wears in Silence of the Lambs (February ’91) to keep him from biting people is his inspiration for making his prison escape. He skins the face of a guard and wears it as a mask. You don’t have to ask what Hannibal Lector has to do with Claude Stim in Murderous Vision (March ’91) or what a leather jacket has to do with a leather glove. In Jack the Ripper (’88) a brown leather change purse sits where the brown leather glove sits in the Fuhrman pointing finger photo. 

Fuhrman’s last Bundy crime scene note combines the mask and the leather. It says, “Ski mask, one glove by feet of male victim.” The glove was leather. The “ski mask” was a blue knit cap. In Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman notes, “Twelve hairs matching O.J. Simpson’s“ inside the cap. He does not mention a blonde hair inside the cap. He does not mention his “insignificant” error of calling the blue cap a mask. Instead, while detailing the hair and fiber evidence found on it, he makes another “insignificant” error. He calls it a black knit cap.

Murderous Vision’s Elizabeth fits the classic profile of a psychic. Moreover you can see that psychic visions represent another value of x when she tells Det. Robashaw her visions of Ellen Green. The x is in the design of the wallpaper behind her and so is a field of purple flowers where her vision tells her the police can find her missing friend. She “sees” a view of a lake through a jumbled mist, a girl on a bicycle with the initials AHS on her schoolbag, a huge pendulum swinging back and fourth and the image shattering. She sees a terrifying little man in a dark place behind a red door and somehow she knows that Robashaw’s young friend, a rookie cop named Martha Ryan was killed the day before.  

All of these visions prove to be connected to the murder of Martha and the disappearance of Ellen. The girl on the bicycle was the victim of a hit and run driver. Stim was driving with Ellen tied and gagged beside him. The license plate of the car matched Ellen Green’s. The letters on the school bag stand for the high school the girl attended. The girl died.  

Think about that for a minute…  Elizabeth. A dead high school girl. A bicycle. A hit and run “driver.” Look closely at the picture of Christopher Meloni as Mark Fuhrman in his vision of being on the Martha Elizabeth Moxley murder scene. What do you see? 

If Elizabeth had seen a bicycle, a dead high school girl and someone hit the girl with a golf club and run away she would have been closer to describing what happened to the girl that Stim killed with Ellen’s car.  A driver is a golf club and Elizabeth didn’t see a driver of any kind. She didn’t see that the girl was a high school student and she didn’t see that she was killed.  As it is, she is closer to describing Fuhrman’s vision of Martha Elizabeth Moxley’s death than she is to describing the fatal hit and run. And remember that Elizabeth Kemp is Ellen Green.  

You see Elizabeth’s vision of a lake through a mist in Murder in Greenwich just before Carroll drives Fuhrman to the place where Martha’s body was found. Carroll checks into the property with a former partner named Joe. Ellen Green is divorced. Her “ex-partner” is Joe. 

Stim takes Ellen to her apartment figuring that her two young children are with their father and the police would not look for him and Ellen there. Ellen’s daughter Clara has a Teddy Bear named Oliver. Clara left Oliver in her mother’s apartment. Stim cuts Oliver’s face off with a big, sharp knife. He loads his gun and puts the knife down where Ellen is in the kitchen cooking eggs. He leaves to make a phone call to a dead man on a severed phone line. Ellen knows she is dealing with a madman so she seizes on her only opportunity for survival by picking up the knife. 

Joe Green chooses this time to bring Clara back for Oliver. Her key in the lock alerts Stim. He sees Ellen creeping up on him and wrestles the knife away. Ellen screams for her daughter to get out. Stim drags Ellen down the fire escape. Ellen leaves a high-healed shoe behind. Robeshaw and Bo are not supposed to be looking for Martha’s killer. An obnoxious detective named Martin has that job. Robeshaw doesn’t know the cases are connected until Stim takes Ellen to room 22 of the Lake View Motel, scalps her, cuts her face off and leaves her blood and strands of her hair behind. Even then it’s only a probable homicide because Stem moved the body. Robeshaw is supposed to turn his case over to Martin but his boss tells him he will “turn a blind eye.”  

Elizabeth’s “view of a lake” was the Lake View Motel. Her “jumbled mist was Stim’s name in a newspaper Jumble puzzle. The Jumble puzzle word was STIM. The solution was MIST. The pendulum was a blue wrecking ball that crashes into the wall of Claude Stim’s abandoned apartment building, taking out the window and a large section of yellow bricks. The field of purple flowers was the floral wallpaper exposed to view when the wrecking ball crashed through the bricks. Elizabeth’s psychic view of her blonde friend in the field of purple flowers is the same as Dorothy Moxley in Murder in Greenwich looking at the photo of her daughter Martha in a field of purple flowers.

The pendulum in Murder in Greenwich is a teenage girl in long blue pants on a swing. You see her swinging following the croquet scene with Fuhrman and Hildy, which follows the scene with Dorothy looking at the photo album with Martha in a field of purple flowers. In the croquet scene you see behind Fuhrman a yellow brick wall identical to the one knocked out by the wrecking ball in Murderous Vision. In other words, the events in Elizabeth’s vision follow the same sequence in reverse order of the events in Murder in Greenwich – Mark Fuhrman’s vision of Martha Elizabeth Moxley’s murder.

The girl on the swing is with a group of teenagers, including Martha sitting on a porch with a fire burning behind her. A young couple close by are leaning against a tree trunk in a standing embrace kissing. You see these combined elements in a 1989 TV-movie with a psychic theme call When Dreams Come True. When you see that sequence you will know where the girl on the swing sequence in Murder in Greenwich comes from and how Elizabeth Kemp as Ellen Green in Murderous Vision fits into Fuhrman’s TV movie vision.  

“Mean Joe Green” was a black football superstar. He was featured in a famous TV commercial with a young boy offering him a Coke after a bad game and “Mean Joe” tossing the boy his jersey. Looking at Fuhrman’s involvement in high profile murder cases through the psychic’s eye, the name Joe Green gives you a black football player standing outside of a murder victim’s apartment. It has a blonde, female victim in her kitchen with a big sharp knife preparing to defend herself. This is Fuhrman’s story of the butcher knife he found on Nicole Brown Simpson’s kitchen counter. In his story, the black football player standing outside was O.J. The knife showed up when Fuhrman did. 

The last time you see Ellen’s face her killer is wearing it as a mask. By then Robashaw and his partner have gone into the killer’s closet and found the faces of many missing people surgically removed and preserved in jars. One of those faces sits on the floor where Stim threw the jar to the ground. It’s the face of a plastic surgeon who gave a woman a boob job and disappeared when she did. Her skinned face is still in a jar on a shelf in Stim’s closet. The doctor’s face on the floor looks like a rubber mask. It is, of course, a rubber mask in reality, but this is fiction.

The news report that police found a bloody ski mask in O.J.’s closet was fiction. In Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman says that he and his partner searched O.J.’s bedroom and saw the socks on his floor rug that were later reported to have Nicole’s blood on them. He says nothing about O.J.’s closet. Another detective found a single leather glove. The bloody mask in the closet story had to have come from Fuhrman. A leather glove was missing from the closet in the bedroom he searched. Fuhrman identified the cap on Bundy as a ski mask in his June 13, 1994 notes. No one in the LAPD or the DA’s office read the notes until 1995.  

The hair in the cap is why I looked for combs, hair blushes, wigs, and key characters named Elizabeth in the Fuhrman movie collection. I was looking for hair that comes off. Martha is the only Murder in Greenwich character who runs a brush through her hair. My clue came from the Jack the Ripper (’88) murder victim Elizabeth Stride and a bald doctor named Llewellyn, the first Jack the Ripper suspect, who takes his hat off on a murder scene. I didn’t expect to see to see the names Martha and Elizabeth as murder victims in Murderous Vision. I didn’t expect so many movies with psychics to have Fuhrman links to each other. 

Cindy William is the woman plotting with her lover to kill her husband in The Conversation, which the surveillance expert got ass-backwards because he didn’t hear the whole conversation. As Susan Matthews in When Dreams Come True (’85) she gets her psychic vision of a killer and a victim ass-backwards because her vision is incomplete. Susan is not a professional psychic. She doesn’t even know that she is having psychic dreams until she literally meets the man of her dreams – who turns out to be the serial killer in the case her police detective boyfriend is working on. Lee Horsley, the psychic magazine publisher in The Face of Fear (’90) is her boyfriend Alex. Stan Shaw is his partner Harry. John Llewellyn Moxy is the director. The name of the assistant property manager might also interest you. His name is Moxley.

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