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From: Jasper
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Category 3: Category 1
Date: 27 Feb 1999
Time: 07:53:14
Remote Name: dyn1-tnt12-76.detroit.mi.ameritech.net
Bob- You're quite an observer.
I saw SARGEANT RUTLEDGE and noted the same things you did for the same reasons. Because of Fuhrman's interest in Western history and military history, as well as his interest in the movies, I have little doubt that he saw it. I did not include it in the book because I couldn't figure out how to work it in without going off an another track.
All of the movies I made note of in the book and the ones I will be adding to the appendix on line as I discover them, have strong links not only to Mark Fuhrman's version of the Bundy murders, but to each other. SARGEANT RUTLEDGE is, first of all, an OJI version of the trial. It has something to do with the predictable "guilty reactions" of an innocent person caught up in impossible circumstance of presumed guilt (I covered that with Desdemona's predictable lie about the strawberry handkerchief). But it had more to do with the attitudes of people like Marcia Clark and Chris Darden than it did Mark Fuhrman. Remember the initials "C. H." in the coat "that didn't fit" the boy, and the real killer's attempt to divert attention from himself by blaming his own innocent son? The killer actually got Rutledge off before he confessed.
I found all kinds of similarities between the Bundy murders and classics by master movie makers like John Ford. You see them especially in Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, NOTORIOUS and SABOTEUR (Now there's one to take another look at for Murphy Ranch connections). All of which leads me to the Turner connection. Turner bought the rights to all of the classics and near classics he could find. He was therefore bound to have one or two of them ready to show when CNN (which he also controlled) covered any running news story with a similar theme.
That's why it wasn't enough for me that GUILTY CONCIENCE had a Blythe Danner connection to Future Word (which links both of them to MILLINIUM) or that she played a television reporter named Tracy (as in Tracy Savage) or that she was being used to manage the news. When I saw her make the slit throat gesture across her own throat and then show up later wearing a blood read choker (THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, THE NAKED GUN, BEETLEJUICE, THE ADDAMS FAMILY) I knew which movies guided the killers thoughts and actions at Bundy and Rockingham. I knew that Blythe Danner was the link between all of them.-Jasper