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From: Jasper
Date: 3/30/04
Time: 10:25:26 PM
Remote Name: 69.212.59.55
Intra nos,
So far I’m the only one I know who has said one killer used two knives. Some of the wounds left a pattern characteristic of a doubled-edged blade. Some were characteristic of a single-edged blade (with a sharp point). That’s why some people are convinced that there were two killers, each using a different kind of knife, one killer a right-hander and the other a lefty (because of the way the blade entered the body).
In the e-mail section of Iago you can see that my idea of one killer using two knives evolved from the crushing blow on Nicole’s skull slightly above and behind her right ear. I read Dr. Golden’s report about twenty times (I couldn’t understand some of it) and I followed Dr. Lakshmanan’s testimony. Both of them agreed that the blade was over 6” long. They agreed that a single-edged knife could leave wounds characteristic of a single-edged knife and a double-edged knife. They paid little attention the blow on the back of Nicole’s skull except to say that the butt of a German Stiletto could have done it.
The only stab would that grabbed my attention was the one in Ron Goldman’s right thigh – straight in and out. That wound combined with the small bruise on the back of Ron’s head behind his left ear and the big bruise on the back of Nicole’s head behind her right ear looked like the military “stun technique” to me. Ron’s thigh wound is near a major artery that most people wouldn’t think of as a vital spot. It occurred to me that the killer would not have attacked that area if he didn’t know it was a vital spot and he did so automatically but realized in time that he would give away his military training if he didn’t pull it straight out. The butt of a kBar, a good hunting knife or the German Stiletto (unlike most Stilettos) makes an ideal club for the “stun” that initiates the attack.
I went with one knife, the German Stiletto and looked for bruises from the killer’s free hand on the body (the free hand can be an effective weapon in conjunction with the knife). I didn’t find those bruises and I was about to scrap my military-style hit idea when I read Mark Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood. He also argued that one killer used one single-edged knife, the large Swiss Army knife. His illustrations are excellent, his arguments are compelling and his findings match the autopsy reports – with two exceptions. He did not account for the blade that made the long stabbing wound through rough’s neck and he said nothing about what Nicole was hit with.
The more I studied the autopsy reports through the eyes of a killer tying to make an easy double kill look like a fight, the more attention I paid the tiny mark and small surrounding bruise on the back of Ron’s head. You don’t need a weapon with much heft to disorient one target and take out another. In fact, you’d want to be sure that you didn’t accidentally hit him hard enough to take him down, just out of the way so you can get to your next target. You could do that with a glass saltshaker or a Bic lighter. You could also do it with the butt of a Swiss Army knife. To take out Nicole, the killer would have needed the butt of the Stiletto. If you are only looking at the blade you could then “find” either knife in O.J.’s home and argue that “IT” was the murder weapon. But to search the house you needed a good excuse, like a pair of bloody gloves found outside. --Jasper