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From: Jasper
Date: 6/22/03
Time: 11:39:33 PM
Remote User:
Miss Marple,
The killer’s clothes in the washing machine is such a STUPID idea that I hardly know where to start with it.
Let’s assume that “somebody” washed the clothes. According to Marcia Clark, these were the sweats that Kato saw O.J. wearing when they went to McDonald’s in the Bentley. That’s not what he said, but for the sake of argument lets assume he did.
Where were the blue-black fibers (presumably) from the killer’s sweats found in the Bentley? No. Were blue-black fibers found in the Bronco? No. Ditto the master bedroom, the basement and the washing machine. In a Public Radio interview on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, Marcia said that Dennis Fung found dark blue sweats “near” the washing machine but didn’t collect them because he said they had obviously never been worn. Marcia claimed that Fung had the killer’s clothes in his hands and failed to realize it.
Come on now, if Fung was so sure that the sweats had never been worn, how could they have come out of the washing machine or the dryer looking that way?
No one produced evidence that O.J. ever had a pair of blue sweats. Even if you assume that he had a dark blue sweat suit that nobody knew about before the murders and the police just overlooked them in his cars, his house and his washing machine, where did they come from and where did they go? How could the sweats have been so much more important to the killer or his accomplice than the socks and the gloves that he took the time to wash them and then hide them so well than they were never found? I was going to say, “never seen again,” but nobody saw them in the first place.
If Petrocelli or anyone else had pushed the idea in court of a secret helper laundering the sweats, O.J.’s attorneys would have ripped them apart. Marcia tried to hint at it and LANCE ITO nearly laughed her out of court.
Fuhrman’s “flexible” timeline for the killing (between 10:00 and 10:45) gives him enough room to explain everything that he said he and Roberts found, including the sweats in the washer. I can’t think of anywhere other than Fuhrman’s book and his second appearance on Primetime Live with Dianne Sawyer that Petrocelli could have gotten “his idea” for the killer’s clothes in the washer. But given Petrocelli’s timeline it was screamingly obvious that O.J. needed a helper. I don’t know who he named in his book but in an interview with Larry King shortly after his book was published, he named Kato Kalian. I decided right then that his book wasn’t worth reading. –Jasper