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From: Miss Marple
Date: 3/7/03
Time: 12:58:25 PM
Remote Name: 164.77.142.216
Jasper,
Most people don't see the pattern because they don't look hard enough or look in the wrong places. I had a hard time seeing fuhrman as a killer, what would be his motive? (Also, where I grew up, police men were good people. It's hard to change that picture in your mind.) I was also not that interested in who did it, more interested in the obvious police misconduct that I saw everywhere in the case.
Then, like you said, whose name kept coming up at the end of every quest? For someone who wasn't even on the case, fuhrman was connected to everything that happened from that first day. He was like a puppeteer, he directed the "play" and he was the leading star.
After I read Iago I went back and read fuhrman's book again. He is his own worst enemy, his arrogance and lack of imagination show through in every chapter. He writes two paragraphs describing the wooden stick, goes on forever about the blue item by the glove, can't let go of details that most people have ignored. And there is always a reason for what fuhrman does. He is like a whining child, upset that his evidence is ignored!
I think you are correct and that fuhrman is the killer. There is too much that leads in his direction. He laid out the evidence lika a treasure hunt and then caused himself to be able to cause it to be collected.
The red stain and the wooden stick would make detectives think Bundy, the airline ticket receipt - escape, the plastic and showel in the Bronco - digging grave, and so on and so on.
I wonder how long before the murders he wrote his Hypothesis of a murder. And couldn't let go of it.
Miss Marple