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Murder in Greenwich Barroom Code
Once I saw the Jumble Puzzle codes based on U.S. Presidents in Fuhrman’s Bundy notes, it seemed to me that he would not be able to resist putting an anagram code of some kind into his movie. My every attempt to find one failed because I didn’t have the decoder to do it
Breaking any code requires a reference source of known value that matches the code, like "house and you" in English match "casa y tu " in another language. It works with Spanish. It doesn't work with Chinese. With that bit of information you can zero in on Latin based languages to decode a sentence containing casa, y, and tu. If you find a word unique to Spanish, you've got your decoder and you can decode the entire sentence.
The movie decoder I needed for Fuhrman's notes in a barroom scene in Murder in Greenwich was A Night to Remember. The breakthrough clue was a turtle called Old Hickory who lived in a courtyard where the murder mystery writer Jeff Troy found a horseshoe and made a joke about the horse that he associated with it. When they met the manager a few minutes earlier he turned to Jeff's wife and said, "Mrs. Troy, isn't it?" She replied, "Yes. And this is my husband Mr. Troy. As the manager leads them down to their basement apartment he says, "Mr. Troy, your wife tells me you're a novelist....What kind of books do you write?" Mrs. Troy says, "So far nothing but murder mysteries...His next book is going to be about Greenwich Village."
In Fuhrman’s movie, the man he calls “Batman” (Greg Coleman) in his book to mask his
identity, scopes him out in the bar while Christopher Meloni as Fuhrman goes over his notes.
The camera zooms in on his Maryland license plate. Later on, while Fuhrman is in his motel room talking to his wife on the phone, he looks down from his window and sees the man again sitting in his car. Fuhrman slips on a pair of Nikes and runs down the stairs to talk to him. He drives away again. The only other time you see Fuhrman in Nikes is when Batman invites him into his car and tells his coke-alcohol -Maryland-detox clinic-Michael Skakel confession story.
GREENWICH BARROOM NOTES: TOMMY SKAKEL – ALONE WITH COPS ??? ROBERT MATHERS MORRIS BANKS
JUMBLE PUZZLE CODE: BATMAN MASK NIKES MR. TROY HORSESHOE BALTIMORE COLTS – WKRP ??? (...)
The period after Mr comes from the
circled dot under the first handwritten question mark.
WKRP stands apart as a Burt Reynolds code within the Batman code. Burt Reynolds was drafted by the Baltimore Colts and married to WKRP in Cincinnati star Loni Anderson. Her character's name on that show was Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe A link to "Reynolds" is a link to Edgar Allan Poe on his deathbed in Baltimore. An Edgar Allan Poe bar scene code in another movie is what brought me to the bar scene code in Murder in Greenwich.
The 1966 TV pilot of Batman features Frank Gorshin as The Riddler, an arch villian in green tights. He wears a question mark on his chest and taunts the police with clues to his next crime in the form of riddles (codes). The episode ends with Burt Ward as Robin in deep trouble and three questions written across the screen. The first question is punctuated by three question marks. It's a old-fashioned cliff-hanger like the 1940's Batman movie serial. You have to watch the next episode to see what happens...
On the other hand, any episode of 1st & 10 will give you another answer to the question marks that can't be ignored.
In a courtyard outside of death row a prison guard tells police Det. John Hobbs that he’s
The Reese riddle sounds ridiculous to Hobbs until a day after Reese literally dances to the gas chamber singing Time is On My Side. That’s when Hobbs gets an anonymous phone call in his office giving him only a street address and an apartment number. The caller tells him, “It’s a clue, Magoo.” Mr. Magoo is an extremely nearsighted cartoon character. The phone call itself is a clue. Reese told Hobbs that he should know the answer to his riddle. He told him that he should open his eyes and look around. Hobbs and his partner Jonesy go to the address and discover a dead man in a bathtub. They find several odd clues in the dead man’s apartment but things get really weird when Jonesy sees a message on the wall consisting of the name Lyons on top, three question marks in the middle and Spakowsky on the bottom. For Hobbs it’s a stunning connection to Reese. He tells Jonesy, “It’s a riddle,” and gives him the incredible source.
Back at the office, Hobbs asks a detective who is writing something on a sheet of paper, “You like riddles? You know, puzzles and shit? Brainteasers? ...Why is there a space between Lyons and Spakowsky?” The answer comes from a detective named Lou sitting behind Hobbs. Lou: We had a Spakowsky in my rookie year... Not your Spakowsky. This guy’s a cop. Hobbs: Keep talking Lou. You will have no trouble getting "Alone with cops" in a Scrabble game puzzle from "Spakowsky" to "Lou" in that exchange. You might want to note that Lou is sitting down having a meal. The guy behind him with a Coke can on his desk, is checking him out as he tells Hobbs where Spakowsky's name can be found. Don’t forget the reason for this exercise. It began with the realization that Fuhrman’s barroom notes in his Murder in Greenwich movie was a Jumble Puzzle. It was related in part to a composite character made up of two informants. One of them was an anonymous caller to a radio station. Fuhrman called him “Lou Phillips” in is Murder in Greenwich book. Fuhrman gave the name “Batman” to the other informant, the one who appears in the move as the driver of a Mercedes Benz with a Maryland license plate. In Fuhrman movie suspect list the three question marks appear between two names, Tommy Skakel and Robert Mathers. Fuhrman scratches out the name Robert Mathers. In Fallen, the space between the two names on an old “Officer of the Year” plaque in storage is there because the name of a cop has been taken out. The name is Robert Milano. He’s the detective of whom Reese said, “You remind me of somebody, Hobbs.” Keeping Murder in Greenwich in mind, who does Reese remind you of?” —Jasper
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He’s trying to work up his nerve to approach Fuhrman but chickens out when Fuhrman confronts him,
leaves the bare and drives off in his
Mercedes-Benz. 
"Handwritten" is the operative
word. It means that the dots under the question mark curls are written separately. And that means you can throw away the curls and the remaining two dots because they are not letters or
punctuation marks. It also means that you have the flexibility to use the three dots (...) for punctuation (
“Wanted in the dance hall.” The man who asked for him is serial killer Edgar Reese. Inside the building, Hobbs sees that a
documentary crew is recording Reese’s words and actions in his final moments of life. Reese tells Hobbs, “It’s the brilliant detective who sealed my brutish fate.” Much more is going on
than meets the eye as Reese give Hobbs a strange handshake with a torrent of words that sound like gibberish to an unschooled ear, then engages him is a strange conversation that ends
