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From: Jasper
Date: 8/10/04
Time: 6:01:10 PM
Remote Name: 68.255.242.104
Kari,
“Setting up the murder scene” is the perfect phrase for what Fuhrman did. In every case where evidence appeared out of nowhere, vanished or moved around, Det. Mark Fuhrman was there. In every instance you get scenes from the movies.
In Iago I noted that the scene presented by the killer and by Fuhrman looked like a test where the tester sets up the test-takers with misleading information to take them directly to the wrong answers (the Primacy Effect). I also noticed that the scene looked like an artistic composition. The items Fuhrman rearranged looked like refinements.
When you compare the first drafts of my books to the completed ones you will see changes like you see on the Bundy murder scene. Most book authors write the early drafts to get the major elements down. Then they go back to correct errors and edit the text so they can make it more readable, more consistent and more interesting. If you tend toward perfectionism (a constant battle with me – and Fuhrman) and edit as you go you might never finish because the temptation is to edit forever. Fuhrman “edited” his involvement in an O.J. “spouse abuse” incident and the O.J. murder investigation several times. He “edited” the reason for his perjury conviction in his movie. He adds things in his interviews that weren’t in his notes, his testimony or his Murder in Brentwood book. When he does he invariably screws something up.
The trouble with the editing process is that it can also create errors. You take out a word and replace it with a better one but you forget that the new word changes the grammar or you need another word in front of it or behind it for it to make sense. When I look back at my posts I find that most of my errors are in words I use often (they, and, is, etc that often appear when I mean to write the, an, his, etc.) and last-minute edits. I see the same pattern with the Bundy murder scene. The killer did some things that told a story. Fuhrman did some things to make a better story but in the process he made mistakes, like the knife on the kitchen counter – mistakes carried over from scores of subconscious sources.
The Rockingham crime scene that Fuhrman set up with his observations about the Bronco follows the same creation and editing pattern. You get all of this stuff, the way Fuhrman tells it, in the movies. You don’t get that with the way O.J., Kato, Park, Riske, Phillips, Vannatter or Lange tell their stories. – Jasper