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From: Jasper
Date: 4/5/02
Time: 11:37:49 PM
Kari,
This is very close to what I say in Iago but the real deal is a tad more complicated.
I thought that Fuhrman was full of crap with his claim that "the" murder weapon was a Swiss Army knife and not a Stiletto. Even with his "soft tissue compression" explanation for some of the deeper wounds, it did not account for the crushing blow on the back of Nicole's head and the stab wounds through Goldman's neck that lined up with a cut on his ear.
I thought that "the" weapon was the German Stiletto. But if my theory of a military-trained killer was correct, there should have been bruises from the free hand on the body. The most effective weapon that a military-trained knife-fighter has is his free hand. He can switch the knife from hand to hand to create confusion and false hope that it might be lost in the transfer. The knife is such a threat that the attacker can feint with it and use his free hand to strike crippling or even killing blows at will.
I studied the autopsy report backward and forward looking for the kind of bruises that might have been made with the killer's free hand. I was ready to strike Fuhrman from my suspect list a second time until it hit me that there would not be hand-inflicted bruises on Goldman's sides if the killer didn't have a free hand. The wounds in Goldman's body indicates that he was assaulted from the left and the right with two different knives, a long-bladed knife held in the right hand and a short-bladed knife held in the left hand. An ambidextrous killer could have held a knife in each hand.
This is the point where Dr. Johnson and I ran into a logjam that we couldn't unblock. He was convinced that the two knives and the direction of the thrusts into Ron's body must have meant that he was attacked by two different men, a left-hander with the short blade and a right-hander with the long blade. My contention was that one man holding a knife in each hand fit ALL of the evidence much better (the confined area, the blunt force wounds on the back of Ron and Nicole's head, the upward orientation of the blade, etc.).
You would almost certainly have to have military training to know when and why the butt of a knife like the German Stiletto would make a better weapon than the blade and to use the blade with the sharp edge facing up. The thrust to Ron's thigh so close to the femoral artery was anther tip-off of a military hit. So was the killing thrust to Ron's abdominal aorta (right hand) and Nicole's throat (left hand).
Two knives. One killer. --Jasper