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From: Jasper
Date: 8/6/03
Time: 3:52:20 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.202.97
Charlie,
I have no doubt that Fuhrman’s use of the ’85 timeframe instead of ’84 had something to do with his duties during those periods. When you are reconstructing an event that happened four of five years earlier in your professional career you can’t get around the places you worked and the duties you performed to bracket the time. He could not have been off by a whole year because of other things in his life that had a direct bearing on where he was in ’84 and ’85, what he was doing and his thinking about O.J. and Nicole.
In 1985 Fuhrman began working with Laura Hart as a technical consultant on a screenplay. O.J. had appeared in several screenplays before then (The Towering Inferno, Capricorn One, A Killing Affair, Goldie and the Boxer, Detour to Terror). Whether Fuhrman met O.J.’s friend Ron Shipp before the fall or winter of ’85, when he said in his letter that he met O.J. and Nicole or during that time, his meeting with Shipp would have been another benchmark for recalling when the incident occurred. Fuhrman’s meeting with Kathleen Bell early in 1986 (when she compared him to O.J.’s friend Marcus Allen and he went into a genocidal racist rant) would have been a third way for him to know that the baseball bat incident did not occur in the fall or winter of ’85.
Fuhrman might not have been at Rockingham in ’84 or ’85. It could have come down just the way you suggested. If so, it means we cannot use the ’84 incident to indicate that Fuhrman was monitoring O.J. and Nicole as far back as 1984 (how else could he have shown up without getting an emergency dispatch call?). However, I doubt it.
As the senior officer, Fuhrman could have easily found an excuse to get his partner away from the radio for a minute or two and told him that they had received a “415” when he got back The way Fuhrman told his story in the letter, his partner would have been in no position to contradict him on the “important facts.” I don’t think that O.J. saw the letter until his murder trial or he would have challenged it then instead of pleading no contest.
The best lies always have an element of truth. Besides, a total fabrication would have left too many loose ends. It would be one thing for the cop (if it wasn’t Fuhrman) not to come forward and another for Fuhrman to find him when Sgt. Ferrell couldn’t and to secure his cooperation and the cooperation of the other people who were there.
Mark Day was an LAPD cop in 1989 but Ferrell did not put out a request for any LAPD officer who had been to Rockingham on a family dispute call. He couldn’t have responded affirmatively to that question anyway because he was private cop with Westec in ’84 working for O.J. Simpson and he did not respond to a 415. Indeed, he would have had no knowledge of such a call. The situation he found certainly didn’t call for one. He didn’t file a report on the incident with the LAPD until 1994. He didn’t add the details that meshed with Fuhrman’s letter until 1996. No one ever produced the report he claimed he made to Westec in ’85 immediately following the incident. Why didn’t he turn over THAT report to Vannatter and Thompson instead of writing a new one? No such record could have existed in ’85. The incident happened in 1984. As a private security officer with Westec in 1984 Mark Day was working for O.J. Simpson. –Jasper