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From: Jasper
Date: 4/10/02
Time: 12:03:37 PM
Charlie,
"An element of fantasy" is the perfect phrase for summing up Fuhrman's stories. I think that this is one of the things Jean picked up when she was telling us how dangerous she thought the guy really was.
On one level, Fuhrman doesn't seem to know the difference between the world outside of his head -- the world of physics, biology, real people and real social limits to behavior -- and the word inside where anything goes. In his stories, he freely crosses lines that nobody with a good grounding in acceptable social behavior would ever cross. He habitually describes actions that defy the laws of physics and probability and somehow produces evidence to match (or is it the evidence he produces and then finds a story to match). The stick on O.J.'s parkway and Fuhrman's story of O.J. going into the maid's quarters after dropping the glove behind the guest house then coming back out to make sure that Park saw him going into the front of his house, is only one example.
Objects, like the unnamed weapon that Fuhrman says O.J. used to land "a crushing blow," to Nicole's head instantly appear out of nowhere (no problem) and instantly vanish into the nowhere from whence they came just a easily. He goes into great detail about two pizza menus, a shovel, a scrap of blue plastic and wad of bubble gum. But he doesn't even attempt to explain how O.J. and Nicole could be facing each other when O.J. loses his temper and renders Nicole unconscious with the "crushing blow" to the back of her head.
We're talking here about a blow so vicious that Nicole would have suffered brain damage if her throat hadn't been cut. We're talking about a blow from an object with the blunt force characteristics of a small hammer like the butt of a hunting knife (or a German Stiletto) with a heavy handle designed for pounding. And we're talking about a fantasy scenario, which could easily be brought into the realm of the real world simply by having the killer holding the knife (it doesn't even have to be open or out of his pocket) and having Nicole turn around before she is hit.
Because that's what the killer really did, and Fuhrman wanted to stay as far away as possible from showing "guilty knowledge" of the crime. --Jasper