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From: usa newyork
Date: 12 Oct 2005
Time: 07:40:16
From: Junot
Date: 28 Apr 2004
Time: 04:46:11
Does the postin feature work right yet?
From: Jasper
Date: 4/1/04
Time: 4:22:10 PM
Remote Name: 69.212.60.165
Inter nos,
You asked if Nicole’s watch was battery powered or wound. I’m going to need some help here because when I looked for the answer to that question several years ago I couldn’t find it. I did, however, find that it was an analog watch and it had a stem that set the time. After looking at all of the real and fabricated coincidences in this case it seemed to me that any explanation for the watch showing a time within three or four minutes of 10:00 was too much for ANOTHER real coincidence, particularly one involving Fuhrman.
In Murder in Brentwood Fuhrman argues that the time of death in a murder case should be kept “flexible.” He says on page 182, “People are often wrong or contradictory in estimating time. Their watches or clocks are set differently, and their memories can be hazy. Even a coroner cannot determine precisely the time of death.”
All of this is true and any homicide detective will tell you that narrowing a time of death down to minutes is usually an exercise in futility. Yet, Fuhrman returns again and again to a start time for the Bundy killings of 10:00 or leave you with the impression that he said 10:00 when he actually said “after 10:00.” In his Hypothesis of a Murder chapter he says, “Sometime after 10:00” and goes on to tell his story of how and way O.J. killed Nicole and Ron and left so much incriminating evidence behind.
The trouble with his statements about time in the O.J. case and in the Michael Skakel case is that he moves in around considerably to argue his points. He isn’t even consistent with the times he gives for key events. He picks a time for one key event a contradictory time for a related event and he doesn’t seem to be concerned about the contradictions. Indeed, I have discovered that he can play with time the way he does because most people can’t or won’t follow up on the implications.
If Nicole’s watch was stopped with a violent impact, as suggested by the position of her left wrist on the pavement, somebody played with the time.
By the way, Nicole was wearing the same black dress she wore to the recital. –Jasper