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From: Jasper
Date: 7/16/03
Time: 6:53:06 PM
Remote Name: 68.74.29.50
Jean,
I doubt that Westec knew about Kato, either, although he had been staying there for nearly six months. His Nissan was not exactly what the detectives would have thought belonged to somebody who lived on the estate, as opposed to the Bronco, the Bentley and the SAAB. If they were expecting to find a live-in maid they probably would have assumed that the Nissan was her car. Fuhrman, with his relationship to Ron Shipp must have known better.
According to the detectives there was little discussion about the ownership of the Nissan. That story never rang true. It would have been reasonable to talk about it and to assume that it belonged to the maid. I thank that they (Phillips, Lange and Vannatter) did believe that the maid was in the third bungalow and that seeing the Nissan on Ashford reinforced that notion.
I think that they went as directly as they could to the third bungalow to get the maid so that they could get into the main house. I think they were puzzled by Fuhrman’s failure to join them because in their minds the main house was the place to find evidence that O.J. had been on Bundy. I think they found it so strange that they questioned Fuhrman’s discovery of the glove and left him out of all the official reports because of it. They were less than completely honest but they weren’t stupid.
Lange and Vannatter may have appeared like bungling idiots but only because the evidence they found early in the case convinced them that O.J. did it and their experience told them that it was safe to cut corners. The pattern of their lies tell a story. Phillips' pattern tells me that he fudged the facts where he had to to protect his friend Mark Fuhrman. Vannatter and Lange's pattern tell me that they fudged the facts where they had to to hide their unlawful actions and to protect their case. –Jasper