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From: Jasper
Date: 10/4/03
Time: 7:39:53 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.205.125
Miss Marple,
You were right about Murder in Spokane. I thought that you might be after I got to page 5 and read Fuhrman’s “unglamorous” details about the condition of dead bodies you can’t get from television. Some of it brought me up short because it sounded a little like the things I wrote in Invisible Warriors about what you don’t get from television. Only Fuhrman went much farther than I did.
You weren’t with us when I wrote so much about my belief that Fuhrman murdered Brett Cantor as a dress rehearsal to his plan to kill Nicole in January ’94 when she lived on Gretna Green – a plan that had to change when she moved. I have long believed that he had a lot of practice in murdering people, perhaps going back as far as his time in Vietnam as a Marine MP in Vietnam and the States.
Fuhrman told his LAPD shrinks that he killed without remorse as a machine-gunner in Vietnam. He told F. Lee Bailey that during his Vietnam tour he never got off the ship. His military records were sealed so we can’t go farther than speculating what he REALLY did in Vietnam or in the States using the cover of his status as a military policeman. But for several reasons, including his failure to seek a combat assignment, given his thrill junkie proclivities and his remorseless shooting of Joseph Britton, I guessed that he did his killing as part of a long-range plan for bigger and better things.
I never believed that Fuhrman was a serial killer in the sense that describes in Murder in Spokane, but a hitman who got his thrills from the danger of committing the act and the feeling of god-like superiority that came with outsmarting the authorities.
I’ve been up to my eyebrows in things I had to do that took me away from reading Fuhrman’s Murder in Spokane all the way through. I’ve had it for about three weeks now and I’m still just getting started. Already I have found more that I expected to find in the whole book. I was particularly intrigued by his inclusion of urine and other “body fluids” of the murder victim in the same paragraph with is description of the smell of blood.
In The Smoking Gun I talked about a trick that GI’s used when I was in Vietnam (’71) to pass the urine test for illegal drug use. The trick was simply to take a sample of someone else’s urine with them to the testing site and put their name on the specimen jar. Military policemen supervised the procedure. I wrote that by 1975 the MPs would have caught on to this trick and any MP who served in Vietnam would have been aware of it. The same method of false identification could easily have been done in the Bundy case with samples of blood. You know, of course, that there are plenty of indications that the blood samples identified as O.J.’s were switched and Fuhrman had access to the samples.
Then there was the fact that this sentence stood alone in the “body fluids” paragraph” of what you don’t get from TV: “You never smell the sweet scent of coagulated blood.” He was supposed to be showing how terrible it was but it sure didn’t read that way. –Jasper