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From: Jasper
Date: 10/10/03
Time: 1:06:20 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.199.29
Charlie,
I’ve been trying to catch up on a lot of things I’ve been letting go. Killing the Goose is in its final stages and the closer I get to the end of it the more stressful it becomes. After all, I know that what I’m dealing with is potentially lethal for me to even think about too much. It is tough going but I have to stick with it to get anywhere. Tracking down the spelling of some names, getting the correct dates and correlating everything is also very difficult time-consuming.
Another thing I’ve been doing is reading and highlighting passages from Fuhrman’s Murder in Spokane. I finished the book early this morning. Toward the end I found myself in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with Fuhrman on his overall conclusions as well as he methodology and criticisms of the Spokane police. So much of what he said was identical to what I was writing about Ford earlier that day. Even some of the language he used was the same as mine. Now I fear I will have to go back and change a lot of what I wrote in Killing the Goose so people won’t think I got it from Fuhrman. Ain’t that a kick in the head.
Yes, I know, the Spokane police have slammed Fuhrman’s Murder in Spokane and accused him of filling it with lies. However, for THIS book, I think he made an honest effort to get things right and much of the speculation in his earlier chapters look like the kind of speculation we do right here on the Iago board in the absence of hard, verifiable facts. That was one of his biggest complaints – that the police weren’t giving him enough information to get the story right and they couldn’t do it anyway because they didn’t know what they had when they had it.
I have not been converted to a Mark Fuhrman fan but now I’m beginning to understand why so many people who haven’t studied him the way we have did become big fans of his. He REALLY understands how police politics works to cover up police misconduct, criminality and incompetence. It’s the unifying theme running through all of his books.
In Murder in Brentwood, he is the killer who used this knowledge to get away with murder and build a case against another innocent man. In Murder in Greenwich he used it to build a case against another innocent man. In Murder in Seattle I think he used it to tell it like it was. By this time, he could afford to. –Jasper