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From: Jasper
Date: 3/29/04
Time: 11:48:27 PM
Remote Name: 69.212.229.124
Intra nos,
1 and 2: – I’m surprised that more people don’t know about frequent hand cutters, although I shouldn’t be because I have known only one in my experience. He was a clay modeler at American Motors name Don Savage (Don, are you there?) who had a bad habit of grabbing at things without looking. I don’t think a week went by without him cutting himself on something. Mostly it was hard to tell when, where or how he did it unless you were standing right there looking and he couldn’t tell you most of the time because he didn’t know. He did it with knives, X-Acto blades, old paint chips, staples (yes, staples) and things you would never think of because you would avoid them. The cuts were superficial. They closed quickly and he paid little attention to them.
I didn’t say anything about nerve damage. O.J. had a bad arthritic condition. He no doubt built up a tolerance to low levels of pain because of it and because of the medication he took for the condition he bled more than most people do from minor cuts. When I was in Vietnam, I remember going though a large field of elephant grass that cut my exposed skin like crazy. I felt a lot of the cuts at first but into an hour or so of it, I didn’t notice. It wasn’t hard for me to see how a man who went though years of cutting himself superficially would fail to notice most times when he cut himself that way.
3: My guess is the dog (Chachi) scratched him when he was playing with her just before he left the gate to walk her around the block or he did it on a sharp piece of the gate or gate opener that nobody knew was there.
4: We know from Park’s testimony that the car was there when the limo left for LAX sometime after 11:00 (See Animation, “Parked Cars.” We know it wasn’t there when Rosa Lopez took the Salinger’s dog out by the big tree for one or two minutes after 10:00. The rest is speculation. It could have been down the block (south on Rockingham) and moved up anytime after Rosa went into the house. O.J. didn’t notice any cars (he didn’t notice Kato’s Nissan on Ashford) and Park didn’t even notice the Bronco when he arrived or when he left.
5: Check. He had to have seen him whether he was near the driveway or on the other end of the block.
6a: The Parked Cars animation shows how the gates opened and closed. However, I found an error in the Rockingham gate animation (I couldn’t find a picture that showed where O.J. pressed the button to open it) but it makes no difference to where he would have stood when the gate opened all the way. That’s where one button to open the gate was located. He could also open the gate from inside the house or somewhere outside of it. His remote opener (the missing one) opened both gates. The gates closes by an automatic timer (O.J. guessed fifteen second delay).
6b: Right. Both gates opened inward.
7: Right. That’s what the blood drops at the gate say. The triangular pattern (three drops with and outward direction of “tails” could not have been deposited in the same pass. They came from a superficial cut and they match O.J.’s story of what he did and when he did it. The kicker is he STILL doesn’t know how those blood drops HELP him. He says he thinks he cut himself just before he got into the limo. He really has no idea and his supporters don’t want to look at any evidence that says he was cut before the limo arrived. They want to argue that those drops were planted (only the drops Fung didn’t mark or photograph were planted).
8: To observe from a distance, the observer had had to have great binoculars or a telescopic lens. He could have seen a blood drop as clearly as if he had been standing on top of it. But I don’t think he saw the blood until he went to the Bronco to remove the interior light bulb (Vannatter found it under the seat and concluded that O.J. learned that surveillance trick from playing a cop in the movies). He then tracked it back to the gate and called the killer. Big problem with the gloves.
9: The Ashford gate (two gates) had a trick hinge. All O.J. had to do was push it. He goes into his house (I think he talked to Reichardt on the phone around that time) and comes back out to chip some balls.
9a: Not necessarily. It is POSSIBLE that O.J. left the spot of blood under his door handle at this time but it is not necessarily true. That spot didn’t even have to be blood. He could also have left enough of his blood in the Bronco to account for those stains (they weren’t tested for EDTA). But there was only one diluted drop of blood from O.J., Ron and Nicole in the entire vehicle so it’s only a guess when and how any of that blood was deposited.
10: Yes, this sequence of events happed after the hamburger run. There was a light over the garage and light in the tree. They came on automatically but offered little illumination.
11: Correct. One minor point…What Park saw, what he paid attention to and what he recalled are three different things. He paid attention only to the things that mattered to him doing his job. He tried to get into the Rockingham gate (going southbound on Rockingham) but he concluded that he couldn’t make the turn because cars (plural) were in the way. The only vehicle that would have been in the way was the Bronco. He wasn’t looking for the Bronco and he didn’t mention the Nissan until the second time he was questioned.
11a: The Parked Cars animation will show you everything except the turn he made on Ashford to park on the opposite side of the gates facing Rockingham.
11b: Kato opened it.
12: No. He did his recon when O.J. and Kato left for McDonalds. That’s when Rosa heard the footsteps going to the garage area and felt relived only when O.J. and Kato returned and she heard O.J.’s voice. He testimony is hard to locate because she appeared in the middle of Lange’s testimony. But it is in the transcripts. Rosa’s room was in the northwest corner just to the left of the Salinger’s front door. The security lights were not an issue. I don’t think the watcher believed Rosa’s room was an issue, either.
The maid’s room in O.J.’s house was on the south side behind the garage. If the watcher didn’t know where Rosa’s room was, it would have been easy to assume that it was nowhere near where it was. Furthermore, a “good friend” of O.J.’s like Ron Shipp who ran his own security business didn’t have to worry about getting caught. He could claim that he thought he saw or heard something while coming by to visit and slipped over the fence to check it out. There is a gap in the trees bordering the Salinger’s property and O.J.’s at the dumpster behind the gate. To a casual dog walker or someone in a passing car, Shipp looked enough like O.J. not to arouse suspicion.
12a: Not quite… The gloves and the shoes were secured long before the killings with the express purpose of framing O.J. for the murder of Nicole and one other person. Too horrible murders in California = the death penalty. There is no way the killer would have left a glove on Bundy if something hadn’t happened at the last minute to make it a necessity. Ditto the blood drops and the blood trail story. They have all the earmarks of improvisation. The plan had to be to plant BOTH bloody gloves on Rockingham, preferably in a bag to make it appear that O.J. tried to hide them.
Fuhrman hints at a “bleeding killer” theory in his notes (# 13: …”Susp possibly bitten by dog?” but gives himself wiggle room by making it a question. He completed his notes before Lt. Spangler arrived on Bundy at 2:30. He got there at 2:10. The blood drops were there before he arrived – as an investigator. –Jasper