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From: Jasper
Date: 7/15/03
Time: 1:05:50 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.201.24
Miss Marple,
In 1985 I went looking for a new home in Detroit. I could afford a nice house in the suburbs but the property values in the city were so depressed that I could get a nicer one in the city for a quarter of the price. I was looking for a house, not an investment.
I looked at several homes with a maid’s quarters. All of them were “crappy little rooms” that I couldn’t imagine anyone living in fulltime if they didn’t have to. They struck me more as a sort of base of operations – a private place for the housekeeper to hang out when she wasn’t performing her chores. It was therefore not surprising to me that O.J.’s live-in maid (Michelle) would stay over in a more comfortable room if it were available.
Phillips and Fuhrman worked on burglary cases in an exclusive area long enough see the same pattern with “maid’s rooms” that I saw when I was looking for a house. The same experience was undoubtedly common with Lange and Vannatter. If they were concerned about the welfare of the maid our just using it as an excuse to look around O.J.’s property without a search warrant, it is inconceivable to me that they would have asked Arnelle to show them the maid’s room instead of asking her where they could find the maid. Asking where they could find the maid would also have been one of the routine questions they would have asked Kato. Similarly, it would have been a question that they asked Westec. The only reason to testify in court that Arnelle took them to the “maid’s room” was to explain what they were doing inside the house.
This is like the Truth-teller/Liar logic problems where half of the people always tell the truth and half of them always lie. You sort them out with responses from three people by formulating a question that a Truth-teller and a Liar would have to give the same answer to. You known what the first guy (Westec) would have said whether you heard his answer or not so if you ask the second guy (Vannatter, Lange, or Phillips) what the first one said you know whether he is a Truth-teller or a Liar by his answer. The third guy’s (Fuhrman’s) answer to what the second person reported the first one said tells you whether the third person is a Truth-teller or a Liar. This is not speculation. It’s a fact.
Vannatter’s statement that you found in the civil trial transcripts confirms what we already know to be true (he asked where everyone could be found). Therefore Fuhrman had to be lying. The detectives all said that Westec told them there should have been a live-in maid, so we know that O.J. hadn’t updated his information to them in at least three months. Fuhrman could not correct the error without giving away guilty knowledge (he supposedly hadn’t been there in years). I don’t think he did. Otherwise he would not have had to call Phillips back when he walked past Kato’s door. If he arranged for the thumps to take him to the glove he would have been hoping that he wouldn’t have to. –Jasper