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From: Jasper
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Category 3: Category 1
Date: 05 Mar 1999
Time: 15:02:34
Remote Name: dyn1-tnt5-66.detroit.mi.ameritech.net
Kari
Gary and I were involved in the Court-TV discussion group back in 1996 where we got a chance to examine a wide variety of ideas about the who's, what's, when's where's, why's and how's of this case. Obviously, we couldn't always be sure of our facts and sometimes when we were sure we'd find out later that we were wrong. It was a big advantage to us in sorting out the truth from the mere appearance of truth on any given point. Your approach to the timeline is a good one. No legitimate evidence can exist outside of its place in time. But there are some assumptions you made about the accuracy of some testimony vs. others that don't fit all of the facts-facts that could be verified by phone company records and independent eye and ear witness testimony.
Justin may have fallen asleep quickly but Sydney was awake until 10:40, at least, when she hard the same men's voices that Robert Heidstra heard. If she heard that, she also heard the dogs barking for at least 20 minutes. It's not likely that she fell asleep before 11:00.
The man Tom Lange saw embracing Nicole around the time shown on Nicole's broken Swiss Army watch (10:03) had to have been Marcus Allen. Remember that witnesses also saw a white Bronco (like Allen's) in front of the condo at that time and a black man they couldn't identify driving away in it shortly afterward. It would have helped to have a record of Faye Resnick's call to Nicole, but the only dispute about it is whether it was full of talk about a happy future, as Faye described it, or one that made Nicole cry as Sydney described it. Fay's insistence that she called at 10:45 before she realized the implications of what she said sounds to me like a Freudian slip. 10:45 was the time the limo driver was expected to let O.J. know he was there. It was the time Kato heard the three thumps on his wall, and the time Robert Heidstra estimated that he saw the light-colored SUV heading south on Bundy.
Like you, I thought that Nicole would not have had time to do all of the things we know she did after leaving Mezzaluna until I read how John Pavlic made the mistake of thinking that Rosa Lopez saw O.J.'s Bronco at 10:15 instead of 10:02. She told him all of the things she did after checking the clock that he figured must have taken 15 minutes before he took the dog outside where she saw the Bronco. Pat McKenna actually watched what she did and timed the entire routine at 2 minutes. Then I took another look at how little time it would have taken Nicole to do the things she did if she set several things in motion in quick success the way Rosa Lopez did. With candles set up where she wanted them in advance around her bath, she had just enough time to do it all.
That was one of the things that led me to take a closer look at evidence that Ron's appearance was a surprise to the killer. It exists entirely of the "chance" loss of Juditha Brown's glasses at Mezzaluna, Ron volunteering to take them to Nicole's place and Stewart Tanner's testimony about meeting Ron at a Mexican bar south of Bundy later that night. With that information and the envelope that the glasses came in featured so prominently in the Rokahr photo of Fuhrman pointing to the glove, most people assumed that Ron was the one who said IN A CLEAR VOICE, "Hey! Hey! Hey!" Well, not five minutes into the attack he didn't. Not any time after he'd been bashed in the head.
The reason a trained soldier or marine hits people in the back of the head the way Ron and Nicole were hit is to silence them. Nicole's lipstick was on Ron's cheek, fibers from this shirt were on the front of her dress and hair from her head was all over his clothes. There is no question that Nicole came out of the house to open the gate for Ron, embraced him, and kissed him on the cheek before they were both attacked at the same time. Faye Resnick told Cora Fischman a week earlier that she and Nicole had planned a 3-way with him for the 12th. The maid was off, the kids were put to bed early, Resnick had called to talk about something and the scented bath water had been run. The car Ron borrowed, supposedly to meet Tanner was parked on Dorothy and pointed west toward the alley that led to his apartment north east of Nicole's condo, in the opposite direction of the Mexican bar. He had to turn the car around to do that.
The bottom line is this: I didn't disregard any evidence or any testimony until I had done a ton of work to see if and where it fit in time. I'm glad to see that you don't, either.
Jasper