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From: Jasper
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Category 3: Category 1
Date: 02 Aug 1999
Time: 11:06:50
Remote Name: ncache1.ford.com
Kari,
I think your approach to the media is the only way to go. There are, however, ways of getting around the lies, as you have demonstrated right here many times. I, too, am distrustful of the media, as every one of my books should prove beyond any doubt. But at some point, you have to assume that someone is telling some portion of the truth just to see if that part of what they're saying is compatable with other things you know. The reason I've accepted the idea that Faye did talk to Nicole and that Nicole was extremely upset by what she said is because it does mesh with other things I know. In other words, I tested it against established facts and it passed. That is not to say I had all of the facts I needed to make the right call or that I put them together the right way. It's just that if I left out something I needed to make the right call (i.e. Faye called Nicole within an hour before she was killed--if she didn't she couldn't have set up Ron Goldman)I don't know what it is.
One of the things that has been killing me with O.J. and his most trusted and influential supporters is their reliance on WORDS and on unsubstantiated interpritations of evidence that take O.J. off the hook. For example, O.J. noted that the cap appeared to be too small for him, ignoring the fact that it was a KNIT cap that stretches to fit anyone and that it had to have O.J.'s naturally shed hair all over it to be useful as a plant. He leans to the idea that he cut himself sometime after 11:00, just before he got into the limo to go to LAX. That would clear him, but it would also make it impossible for the killer to have planted the blood drops next to the Bruno Magli shoeprints. It makes his "coincidental" cut in Chicago sound like the stupid lie it most likely was.
Shapiro wanted to accept the 10:03 time on Nicol's broken watch as the time she was killed because he thought that O.J.'s call to Paula Barbiari at 10:03 and again at 10:04 let O.J. off the hook. It also obscured the fact that someone deliberatly broke the watch and set it to 10:03--which O.J. could have done as easily as anyone else. Shapero insisted that the blood drops at Rockhingham were planted by Phil Vannatter. That throws into doubt the blood trail going from Brundy to Rockingham. It also effectily destroys O.J. alibi that can be proven by testing it against the blood drop pattern that Dennis Fung (as opposed to Brad Roberts) marked as "represetative samples."
F. Lee Bailey still insists that Fuhrman found the right hand glove on Bundy and planted it on Rockingham to stay involved in the case. He has been pursuing the idea that the Bruno Maglie shoeprints were actually size 10 and that an unidentifed white man threated Nicole around the time neighbors saw a white Bronco Parked in front of Nicole's condo. Sure, all of this works for O.J. but it also works for Fuhrman and Robers.
Pat McKenna was convinced of O.J.'s innocence by the people and the cameras that were watching him from the time he got into the limo to the time he checked into his hotel room in Chicago. He was convinced by O.J.s demeanor, the lack of a visible cut and the fact that "the murder weapon" was not found in any of the places O.J. could have disposed of it. Once he accepted those indications of O.J.'s innocence he decided that the shoe-size issue, O.J.'s cut finger and the thumping on Kato's wall had nothing to do with each other--which means the O.J. didn't have anything to do with the blood evidence on Bundy or the glove on Rockingham. It also means that the killer didn't frame O.J.
Then there are all of the people who picked up on the fact that Nicole and Ron were stabbed with two different knives by a right-hander and a southpaw and concluded that there must have been two actively involved killers. Once again, O.J. is in the clear--so is Mark Fuhrman.
I said in Iago that my older, wiser brother George, the homicide detective, laughed at me when I started talking about the time when Ron and Nicole were killed. This was before I read Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood and read what he had to say about it. He said the same thing George did--that you can't trust what anyone says about time without independent verification. The O.J. case is not unusual in that regard and it's one of the things the killer had to to be sure about in advance to know he could get around huge discrepancies in a false timeline. There are ALWAYS contradictions that you can use any way you want. That's why Chapter 36 is not Chapter 6--it took all of the chapters that went before it to construct a timeline that fit the facts. --Jasper