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From: Jasper
Date: 10/24/02
Time: 8:38:49 PM
Remote Name: 66.72.163.104
Rose,
A lookout posing as a dog walker has some advantages. It also has some disadvantages. How can he be sure that the dog won’t bark at an inopportune moment and call attention to him? How can he walk around in the area for more than a minute or two without calling attention to himself? He can’t hid in the stairwell if somebody just happens to stroll by.
A lookout has to be in a relatively stationary position. He has to be inconspicuous and he has to be able to beat a hasty retreat if the situation calls for it. If he parks a vehicle that blends into the neighborhood where the trashcans are in your pictures he can see everything he needs to see from out of his windshield and in his rear view mirrors. Facing away from the kill zone would further disassociate it from the crime. If someone walks by or drives by he can simply duck down until they pass.
In the time since the killings I’m sure that whatever damage was done to a picket fence at that time has been repaired by now. Furthermore, the police made a thorough check of the fences north of Nicole’s condo to Rockingham.
The only person who claims to have found the match to the stick is Mark Fuhrman. He says that he found it in an alley a block south of Nicole’s condo. The area he describes in Murder in Brentwood could only be southeast of Bundy and Dorothy. Fuhrman says that a witness saw a light colored SUV in the area (page 194) that could have been a Bronco or a Blazer “within the proper time frame.”
According to Fuhrman the stick “got stuck in the bumper, grill or suspension” when he stopped in the alley to get rid of the knife and it few forward to his parkway when he came to a sudden stop. The problem with that scenario is that there is noting in the “suspension” that it could have gotten stuck to and no way that it could have flown forward with a sudden stop if it had been caught in under bumper. If it had been caught anywhere above the bumper it would have been clearly visible to anyone who saw the front of the vehicle.
Jill didn’t mention the stick.
And thanks for asking her about Roberts. The more speculation we can take off of the table the better. --Jasper