Pickman’s Model http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0660827/
Familiarity with some Fuhrman/Roberts’ bell-ringers makes it easy to spot movies and TV shows that are likely to map out distinct aspects of Marcia Clark’s case against O.J. Simpson for the gruesome double homicide of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. H.P. Lovecraft is one of them. Someone or something with wings is another. The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery creator and host Rod Serling, a World War II combat veteran who served in the Pacific as a paratrooper, qualifies as someone with wings. Add an artist (Fuhrman), the name Bradford (Brad Roberts) plus one eye and you’ve got enough ingredients to expect a significant tie-in to the Bundy murders according to Mark Fuhrman and Marcia Clark.
You get all of those ingredients in the introduction to a Night Gallery episode starring Bradford Dillman called Pickman’s Model from an H.P. Lovecraft story.
According to Fuhrman and Marcia, O.J. Simpson hid the fact that he was a monster behind a deceptively attractive human exterior. O.J., the monster, went to Nicole’s condo wearing leather gloves and a cap. He killed Ron Goldman who arrived at her condo unexpectedly in a desperate struggle when Ron came to her rescue. He lost his cap and one glove in the fight.
In Pickman’s Model, a turn-of-the-20th century painter named Richard Upton Pickman (Bradford Dillman) hides the fact that he is a monster behind a deceptively attractive human exterior – and leather gloves he always wears in public. He tells his wealthy, female art students that he paints what he sees but all of his paintings show monsters. An example of his work that he shows his class is a painting he calls “Ghoul About To Die.” It’s the painting that Rod Serling uses to introduce the H.P. Lovecraft story.
As the story unfolds, the audience is told of folklore about ancient subterranean monsters who take human females “for the purpose of procreation.” This is the first clue that Richard Upton Pickman is not what he appears to be. We find out exactly what he is when we see his bare hand, the hand of a monster, shortly after Mavis Goldsmith, one of his female art students, arrives unexpectedly at his apartment.
First, we see him wearing both gloves and a cap. Then the “ghoul” in his painting (Pickman’s model) shows up. A desperate struggle between Pickman and the monster ensues. When the monster attacks the woman, Pickman comes to her rescue. We see that he has lost his cap and one glove in the fight. Pickman is killed. The monster escapes.
In the Bundy murders there were, of course, other details that had to be taken into account to explain how the killer, if it wasn’t O.J., got past the Akita and why the dog’s missing I.D. tags were never found. A pepper spray called OC is one way the Akita could have been controlled. Getting the dog’s I.D. tag would have been trickier, but essential to keep him from leading whoever found him to the closed gate (the gate had to have been opened later).
Other features of the Bundy crime scene as presented in Marcia Clark’s case and in Fuhrman’s account of his investigation with Brad Roberts and Ron Phillips show up in a Jumble puzzle taken from Pickman’s Model. Using the title and paintings as a word in the opening credits plus the actors and their characters in the fight scene, you get this:
NIGHT GALLERY PAINTINGS PICKMAN’S MODEL
BRADFORD DILLMAN RICHARD UPTON PICKMAN
LOUISE SOREL MAVIS GOLDSMITH
ROBERT PROHASKA GHOUL
A Jumble Puzzle Solution
BRAD ROBERTS RON PHILLIPS MARK FUHRMAN
RON GOLDMAN SHIPP
NICOLE ORENTHAL SIMPSON
MARCIA
GLOVES GUM TD
OC
UGLY KILL
HIDE AKITA’S ID TAG
D
The gloves and the “ugly kill” need no explanation.
The gum is uniquely associated with Mark Fuhrman. In Murder in Brentwood, He claimed to have found a wad of bubblegum on Bundy with the impression of “adult molars” and criticized the Robbery-Homicide detectives for not taking it into evidence.
TD has a two-fold meaning...
In the HBO series 1st and Ten, Orenthal James Simpson is the owner of a professional football team called the Bulls. His character is a former football star (sound familiar?) called T.D. Parker. The T.D. stands for “touchdown.” The 1 and the ten are also significant in terms of the controversial evidence photographed on Nicole’s driveway – a penny and a dime.
"D" is a basketball term for "defense." To carry out the attack on Ron and Nicole, the killer had to do it in a way that they could not defend themselves -- ideally, using a close quarters military ambush method called "the stun technique." This method of attack gets its name from the way it is initiated, using the heel of a knife like a hammer. The heel of a German Stiletto is ideal for this purpose.
D
could also symbolize a dark blue cap worn by a Navy SEAL (O.
Louise Sorel, the actress who plays Mavis Goldsmith in Pickman's Model, appears with Tom Selleck in a 1982 Magnum, P.I. episode called One More Summer. –Jasper
Another Solution (courtesy of Rovaan)
BRAD ROBERTS RON PHILLIPS MARK FUHRMAN
RON GOLDMAN SHIPP
SIMPSON NICOLE ORENTHAL
GUM AKITA’S ID TAG MUDDY GLOVES OC HAT RAGE KILL LIC ID
The Akita was missing two tags but only one was an ID tag and only that one mattered.
The Akita's belly was muddy.
A hat without a rim is a cap.
"Rage kill" speaks for itself.
LIC ID is the abbreviated form of "license" identification.
This is a definite Jumble puzzle because everything ties into the "fight with the monster" theme and nothing is left over. --Jasper
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