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From: Jasper
Date: 4/21/02
Time: 4:04:19 AM
With everything else considered, this is the one that did it for me. It's from Joe Bosco's A Problem of Evidence page 144-145. Bosco is quoting O.J. PI Pat McKenna…
"…From there he hears a gate slam. That gate is the MIDDLE gate. We slammed all three gates, the front gate, the back gate, and the middle gate. The only one that can make that clang is the middle gate. As a matter of fact, I've got it on tape; we were doing experiments and I had a tape recorder and I was slamming that gate to tape the sound. I played it for Heidstra to see if that was the sound and it was…."
If Heidstra heard the middle gate it doesn't matter whether he was directly across the street from 875 South Bundy or a little to the north of it. Any line you draw from Heidstra to Nicole's middle gate - even one that nearly goes through the Karpf/Stein front gate -- will take you to Nicole's middle gate.
Furthermore, Karpf didn't get home until somewhere between 10:45 and 10:50. He thinks it was closer to 10:45. He not only heard the dog, he saw it by itself directly in front of him (north of Nicole's condo - no bloody pawprints). It came toward him and he went inside the gate. However any sound that the gate made could not have been what Heidstra heard. Heidstra was on Dorothy by this time seeing, or about to see, the SUV on Dorothy turn south onto Bundy.
Karpf's calculation of time, like Heidstra's is built on repetition. I consider it highly reliable because it takes me 20 to 25 minutes to get to work every day. In 17 years, I've never made it in under 20 minutes and it has only taken longer than 25 if I ran into a traffic jam. Similarly, Karpf knew when his plane landed. He knew how long it took to get to his car and he knew how long it took to get home from there. It is therefor highly unlikely that he could have gotten home five minutes earlier than his earliest estimate or five minutes later.
Conclusion: Karpf's gate doesn't challenge Heidstra's timeline. It reinforces it.
More about that later. Meanwhile, think: "bloody paws" and "parked cars." --Jasper