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From: Jasper
Date: 3/13/01
Time: 7:16:46 PM
Chris Springer (Sven) and I have been corresponding quite a bit. We have agreed to work together to see what we can do to get the media's attention. The first step is to see where we agree and where we can agree. This is where we are so far...
Sven,
I got your book yesterday and used the address on your package to send you a copy of Iago in Brentwood. I have no doubt that you will find my book as interesting and sometimes as unsettlingly "familiar" as I'm finding yours.
I'm about a third of the way through and already I have found so many similar approaches to the problem and explanations for the evidence and testimony you did that it could be tough trying to convince people who don't know us that we didn't copy off of each other. So far most of that can be explained by our similar backgrounds in problem-solving and our wide range of knowledge and practical experience relative to the essential questions in the investigation.
You did come up with some things I didn't know or didn't think of. That was great.
By the same token, I had an avantage in terms of bloody combat experiece and specifice silent kill techniques taught in the American Armed Forces between 1964 and 1972 (Fuhrman joned the Marines in1971). I didn't finish Iago until 1998, so I have an advantage in terms of the time I had to study Fuhrman's book and Vannatter and Lange's book (both published in '97) and to reconsider possible explanations for some of the evidence.
For instance:
Until late in '97 or early in '98 I believed as you did that O.J. lied about not owning the Bruno Magli Lorenzos -- because of the date that the photos SUPPOSEDLY appeared in a Buffalo Bills newsletter. Then I got stuck on the fact that it would have been such a stupid lie given the time O.J. had to think about it that I was forced to consider the possibility that he might have been telling the truth. O.J. sometimes behaved stupidly in a panic but he was much sharper than his lawyers in recognizing what was and wasn't relevant to his best defense and he had plenty of time to think about the shoes before saying ANYTHING about them. If he had owned a pair, the simplest thing to do would have been to admit it.
You can't frame someone with evidence that doesn't make them look guilty. If he was framed, it would have been a smart thing to plant personal items that were actually his or an identical copy of them. Therefore it never seemed relevant to me whether he owned them or not. The relevant question was: Who wore them on Bundy on the night of June 12, 1994? Then, when I realized how the "disappearing" Bruno Magli trick was done (by creating the ILLUSION that O.J. owned them when he never did) I realized the photo's had to have been faked.
It turns out that there is no record of ANYONE outside of the Buffalo Bill's PR man and his assistant (Denny Lynch and Bill Musnson), who claimed to have seen the newsletter that the photo supposedly appeared in. The only people who can be tied to those photos are, in fact, the people with the special qualifications to fake them to profit from them and to know with 100% certainty that no AMATEUR could have taken a photo of O.J. during the time Flammer and Schull were supposed to have taken the photos. If you can show me a copy of the newsletter that ANY of the FANS received before the murders or an AMATEUR photo of those shoes (a photo that could not have been faked) I'll eat MY shoes.
What you said about the baseball bat and the thumps nearly knocked me out of my seat... You'll see, when you get into the later chapters of Iago...
I can see Charlie's imprint on the book. You two were as lucky to find each other as I was to find the people like Pat, Maggie, Paula, Peggy, Phil, Sandra and Christine that you will read about in the first half of Iago.
I'd like to say more but I've got a great book I have to finish. -- Jasper