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From: Jasper
Date: 5/19/03
Time: 4:54:28 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.198.169
Thank you, Jean
The more movies you see that are linked to something that Fuhrman said, did or wrote about the more of him you will see on the Bundy murder scene – before and after he showed up there as a detective. Some of it, like the Naked Gun cap and the Monday Night Football gloves is deliberate. I’m sure that most of the blatant contractions and “guilty knowledge” details in his stories are also deliberate and he gets off every time he drops bigger and bigger clues that he thinks the “experts” will miss. He reminds me of a skydiver who delays pulling his ripcord longer and longer until he reaches the limit – and then goes a little beyond that. I saw the same thing in Vietnam with combat junkies who kept putting themselves at greater and greater risk for no good reason.
Fuhrman’s failure to get into a high-risk combat unit is one of the things that threw me until I realized that he might not have any control over that. If Fuhrman enlisted when the Marines were short on military policemen that’s the job they would have given him.
It also occurred to me that Fuhrman was extremely ambitions and could have enlisted as an MP or transferred to the job as a stepping-stone to something else. He lied to his LAPD psychiatrist about being a machine-gunner and killing lots of people in Vietnam with no regrets, but that fits into the game he was playing to get a disability retirement. He told F. Lee Bailey that he served on a ship in the South China Sea and never got off the ship. He may have served on ship for a year but I doubt that he never came ashore and I suspect that he did kill people without remorse as an individual, not as a marine. Vietnam would have been an ideal place for him to practice his murder skills for bigger and better things when he got back to the USA. In the late ’60s and early ’70s there was a glut of movies with variations on this them.
That brings me to the clues Fuhrman left on the murder scene, in his books, his interviews and in his made-for-television movie that he didn’t intend – the ones that just seemed like good ideas because the movie sources where in is subconscious.
The pilot episode of Robocop the TV series, for example, has roving teenagers in coats carrying baseball bats and riding in a yellow car. One of them swings the bat and smashes a light bulb when a cop surprises them in their clubhouse. On a wall behind the cop is the number 6 (Martha Moxley was killed with a 6 iron) and below the 6 the number 2215. An adult killer involved with the teenagers has a girlfriend that he calls “Pumpkin.” In Fuhrman’s Murder in Greenwich movie he repeatedly uses the number 22 in connection with Martha Moxley who was killed when she was 15-years-old. One scene in his movie features teenagers in coats riding in a yellow vehicle while other kids similarly dressed swing baseball bats. On kid smashes a pumpkin with his bat. Murder in Greenwich is saturated with things like this. As I told Miss Marple in a recent e-mail, there are so many of them that I haven’t been able to figure out where to start The Smoking Gun 3. –Jasper