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From: Jasper
Date: 2/25/02
Time: 4:45:25 AM
Jean,
I don't think we can put the cap, the shoes and the gloves in the same category. That was a crucial mistake I made when I was resisting the idea of a conspiracy (just because I distrust conspiracy theories in general) and still looking at Kato or Shipp as the most likely murderer. I also made the mistake of assuming that the killer stole O.J.'s Bronco to commit the crime and returned it when he was finished. That one really had me going in the wrong direction.
Letting go of these assumptions was tough because they made the process of tying the various clues together in a logical way much easier than trying to do it without them. Unfortunately, the only assumption that held up under critical scrutiny was the one about the cap. I can't prove that O.J. ever wore that cap but I haven't been able to rule it out.
On the other hand, there is no evidence that O.J. ever wore the shoes or the gloves. There is a considerable amount of evidence to show that the last time the Bronco was driven by anyone was when O.J. parked it on Rockingham long before the murders. The photos that purport to show O.J. wearing the shoes have all of the peculiar characteristics of fakes. There are no amateur photos of them, no sales record and neither of O.J.'s housekeepers ever saw them in the year and a half to two and a halve years they were supposed to be in O.J.'s posession.
Some evidence says that the killer thought of the most "logical" ways of framing O.J. with various stolen items that could be traced to him but ran into practical problems that required other solutions. As you noted, it doesn't matter whether these items belonged to O.J. or not. They belonged in the killer's plan to frame O.J. for murder long before the evening of June 12, 1994. --Jasper