[ Discussions | TOC | Search | Post | Reply ]
From: Jasper
Date: 10/17/02
Time: 11:48:02 PM
Remote Name: 66.72.160.195
Miss Marple,
Your mom and mine must have been reading from the same book. O.J.'s lawyers were angry with him for saying so much that he didn't have to say. But as we compare the books and the transcripts from the various legal proceedings we can see in the animations that his stories are consistent with crucial evidence that he didn't even know about.
You zeroed in on the same key sections of Gonzalez's testimony that I did and came to the same conclusions. He was not a bad guy trying to help the bad guys. He was just a guy caught up in circumstances that he didn't know how to deal with.
I'm glad to see that you are thinking in terms of animations when comparing the various accounts of what happened, when and where. I hope that others will use the animations the same way. When you see the layouts of the crime scenes and look at the clock as you try to visualize what could have happened, you invariably see things that must have happened and other things that couldn't have happened. You begin to see not only whether the testimony or the claims made in various books fit the FIXED time and space, you also get a better idea of what drove different people to say the things they did.
You can put a mental overlay of Harman's testimony of all the Bundy witnesses on Dog Walker's 2 and see which stories work together and which ones don't. You can see how congested things get on Bundy and how narrow the window of opportunity was for the killer. When you put a mental overlay of the Rockingham witnesses testimony on a diagram of the Rockingham estate you can do the same thing. That's what I did with Gonzalez and Aston and came up with a probable answer to my "where was Roberts" question.
From where the uniformed officers were posted, it's clear that they were summoned to Rockingham (by Captain Dial - that was her job) as backups in case of trouble that the "four" detectives couldn't handle. That is to say, they PREPARED for a violent confrontation and covered the possible escape routs FROM THE HOUSE. Gonzalez covered the north side of the estate and the northeast corner of the back. Aston covered the west side (the front). The Salinger's house where Rosa Lopez lived was a natural barrier on the south. Who guarded the back of the house on the southeast? Who was left?
Brad Roberts.
Roberts' whereabouts for that time is unaccounted for. But as soon as Fuhrman returned to Rockingham after going to Bundy with Phillips and Rokahr to compare the glove he had just "found" on Rockingham to the one on Bundy, Roberts drives up alone, in an unmarked police car, in front of the Salinger's estate. There is no mention of him at Bundy by anyone, including Fuhrman, when Fuhrman was there with Phillips and Rokahr to compare the gloves.
Remember that Gonzalez could not see the property behind O.J.'s tennis court. Now consider this passage from Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood (page 80, the end of the "low speed chase):
"While sitting in the car, Brad and I REMEMBERED that the house directly east of Simpsons, bordering the tennis court, could easily be used to enter the estate without being seen. We approached the residents who had just purchased the house and asked to sit in their backyard. They were very cooperative, explaining that the house was STILL empty…"
Need I say more? -Jasper