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From: Jasper
Date: 2/19/02
Time: 11:58:13 AM
Kari,
The precise atmospheric conditions are critical for all of the reasons you pointed out. In Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman complains that the prosecution did not try to establish whether the dew point was reached and therefore could have caused the moisture on the Rockingham glove. But he also described the Rockingham glove as having been "discarded," as opposed to "dropped" like the Bundy glove.
Anyone who has studied Fuhrman's story-telling style knows that he has two or more explanations for everything ready to go if one of them doesn't work out. He is VERY "flexible" when it comes to the truth and argues that a good homicide detective should be flexible about things like timelines, witness testimony, and evidence that "matches" the suspect.
The moist glove gave Fuhrman a chance to argue that he knew nothing about it (if he did, it wouldn't have been wet, right?). It also gave him the flexibility to argue that the killer put it in a plastic bag (which I'm sure his partner did) to carry around without getting blood on everything until he could decide how to "discard" it.
The killer went through a considerable amount of trouble to establish a "flexible" timeline between 10:03 (Nicole's watch and the position of her body in the photo) and 10:30 (the barking dogs combined with the anonymous calls asking about the bodies). That would have given O.J. plenty of time to do everything that Fuhrman claims he did at Rockingham before Allan Park saw him.
Who could have figured that Park would not notice the Bronco at any time when he was at Rockingham? To support a false timeline for the killing closer to 10 o'clock than 10:30 it would have been best for Park to say that he saw the Bronco when he arrived at 10:21-10:24.
MARCIA decided to argue that Park didn't notice the Bronco because it wasn't there. Keep in mind this was not the killer's idea. It was Marcia Clark's. Who could have figured that she would do that? Certainly not the person who planted the "most" glove on the side of Kato's Bungalow.
Yes Kari, the weather conditions are critical. Thanks for keeping us on track. --Jasper