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From: Jasper
Date: 2/2/01
Time: 10:11:39 PM
Jean,
This is one aspect of the case where John and I agree 100 percent. We did the same analysis based on the same information (including Pat McKenna's theory about the air conditioner) and came to the same conclusion…Kato could not have been describing a natural event. Either he made it up or someone went through a lot of trouble to make it look that way if the frame-up didn't work. John when with the former explanation. I went with the latter. But the odds of the air conditioner misfiring in a way that nobody ever heard before ON THAT NIGHT at COINCIDENTALLY the right time necessary to falsely implicate O.J. are beyond calculation.
This is a huge point of frustration for John and me. The facts don't leave room for a logical conclusion of "coincidence" or a body falling into the wall or banging into the air conditioner. No room whatsoever.
Jean, I hope you have a copy of Joe Bosco's A problem of Evidence. That's where McKenna sets fourth his theory about the planted glove. He was so sure that Steven Singular's story about Fuhrman planting the glove was true that he was willing to bend any conceivable scenario to fit. His best guest was that Fuhrman found the glove on Bundy and carried it to Rockingham. He wiped the glove on the inside of the Bronco and made his decision about where to plant it when he heard Kato's story about the thumps. Absent that story, McKenna was sure that Fuhrman would have planted the glove somewhere else.
The bottom line is this: McKenna was convinced that the killing and the framing were two separate events and he shaped his theories to fit that conviction. He tested the wall himself and saw that he could move it easily just by pressing his hand against it. When he heard about the noise the condenser made he jumped right on it.
After O.J.'s acquittal in the criminal trial Larry King asked McKenna if he thought O.J. was innocent. He was adamant with his answer that he had no doubt about it because of the timeline, the absences of the murder weapon and the clothes and O.J.'s demeanor. But when King asked him if O.J. was framed by the killer, McKenna said, "No."
That was McKenna's mindset with respect to all of the evidence the defense claimed was planted by Fuhrman or contaminated by the LAPD's SID. The killer wearing size-12 Bruno Maglis (Nicole's brand) sold only in '91 and '92 - ONE PAIR UNACCOUNTED FOR and similar to the kind of shoes O.J. customarily wore to affairs like Sydney's recital? Coincidence. The killer wearing men's XL Aris Isotoner Light leather gloves from the same lot that Nicole bought hers at Bloomingdale's in New York on December 18 1990? Coincidence. The five blood drops matching O.J.'s on Bundy? Coincidental contamination. The thumps? They were coincidental, too. -Jasper