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From: Jasper
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Category 3: Category 1
Date: 04 Mar 1999
Time: 23:59:09
Remote Name: dyn1-tnt7-65.detroit.mi.ameritech.net
Gary and Kari
Did you read what Bob said about the melted "ice cream?" He's right.
What Riske said about it threw me, too, until Kathleen Sullivan explained during a break in the criminal case on E! that she had done her own test on the Ben & Jerry's yogurt Riske mistook for ice cream. She even bought the same flavor (I think it was Rocky Road) and tried to simulate the same temperature conditions. It never did melt to a point that could be definitively compared to what Riske reported. His was "partially" melted; so was hers. But what does "partially" mean?
Then there were all of those conflicting estimates of time and the Bundy crime scene evidence and autopsy reports that clearly indicated the killer's lack of concern about time. He took at least five minutes to torture a man before he killed him. He made two trips to the back of the condo, and he walked slowly both times (see Chapter 30: Blood Trails).
This was another of the things that convinced me of Fuhrman's guilt when added to everything else. When I said something to my brother, the homicide cop, about fixing the start time of the murder within a minute or two, he laughed and said pretty much what Fuhrman did in his book. He said, with the voice of experience, that people were so bad at giving estimates of time that anything within an hour or two was about as close as you could expect to come. That is undoubtedly true in most cases but there are enough time checks on this one that you can get it to within a minute if you give it enough time.
The question then becomes, why are there so many false indications of an earlier start time? The answer to that question also tells us why the killer was in no hurry. The false start time would have assured that O.J. would have no alibi and given him time to do all of the things he couldn't have done with a short timeline. The killer, if he knew that he would be the first homicide detective on the scene, would have no need to rush. Even if the bodies were found as soon as he left, he would have been home by the time he got the call. Even if he wasn't in bed, he could always say he was.
Jasper