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From: Jasper
Date: 5/7/03
Time: 4:47:12 AM
Remote Name: 68.73.58.138
John,
Peter Neufeld nailed this one down in his questioning of the photographer. Ito gave him such a hard time that it’s tough to follow the reasoning in real time. But when you go over the transcript you can see that it’s all there – proof positive that the photos of Fuhrman pointing to the glove were taken before the detectives went to Rockingham.
To accept the scenario you suggested I’d have to assume that Fuhrman finding the right-hand glove on Rockingham AFTER being photographed with the left-hand glove on Bundy is either inspired detective work or pure coincidence. I can’t do that. .
After our long phone conversation I did exhaustive research on the question of how Fuhrman came to interview Kato alone. I can’t even comprehend how Fuhrman or Phillips could have seen him through the widow in the dark unless he was wearing Day-Glo pajamas. Neither Vannatter nor Lange said that they saw him. That’s how the order in which the four detectives approached Kato’s bungalow became important to me.
There is no disagreement among the detectives that Phillips was first in line, followed by Lange, Fuhrman and Vannatter. There is no disagreement that Phillips SAID he saw Kato through the blinds of the French door to his room and then banged on it. There is also no conflict about who looked thorough the blinds first. Fuhrman and Phillips say nothing about it. Lange was the only one to say who ANNOUNCED seeing someone inside. He said it was Fuhrman. Considering Lange’s place in line and Vannatter’s preoccupation with the door to the main house behind him, Lange was in the best position to tell it the way it happened because he and Phillips would have had to turn around and go back.
If Westec told the detectives about a live-in maid, they would have been taking about Michelle who stayed in the last bungalow. Gigi had only been working at Rockingham for a few months. All things considered, it looks like Phillips and Lange were heading straight for the last bungalow when Fuhrman called them back.
Fuhrman initiated the sequence of events that eventually led him to the glove. In the preliminary hearing he initiated the story of going back to Bundy with Phillips for about 20 minutes but he didn’t say why. No one talked about that trip until the criminal trial when Phillips said that Lange sent them back to compare the gloves. In the grand jury Vannatter didn’t even say who found the glove. In Evidence Dismissed, Vannatter says that he gave the order. Their stories simply don’t hang together even when you allow for normal variations in recall. Phillips lists several people who saw him but none of those people said that they saw Fuhrman. And you still get Fuhrman driving back to Rockingham alone in a car (Phillips car) that didn’t go back with him.
We both know that Fuhrman lied about when the Bundy photos were taken. Why wouldn’t he lie about being ordered to go back to compare the glove? We know why the other detectives would lie. Fuhrman said it on the McKinney tapes: “…If I go down, they lose the case. The glove is everything. Without the glove – ‘bye, bye.” – Jasper