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Chapter 2

Templates for Murder

How can there be 19 key points of similarity in one frame of a 1988 made for British television movie about Jack the Ripper to the actual crime scenes at Bundy and Rockingham? There can’t be without a killer at Bundy who was also a detective in a crime scene photo, a detective who asked that the photo be taken and pointed to the evidence at Ron Goldman’s feet. He would have to have studied those aspects of the movie frame by frame and injected them consciously and subconsciously into the clues he chose to leave behind and in the way he chose to conduct his investigation.

There would be no significant connections without Mark Fuhrman’s passion for the movies, his prior contact with the female victim (8), his allusion to O.J. treating Nicole like a whore and his eagerness to be in the spotlight (19). There wouldn’t be nearly as many without his attention to detail, his study of history, his vision of himself as composite characters from the movies and his fascination with symbolism (14-see page 22). In short, to see any of those 19 connections you have to look for them through the eyes of the great detective, Mark Fuhrman. The more you know about him and the Bundy murders the more you’ll see.

The only thing that makes any of these points noteworthy is the fact that there are five "carefully arranged" items at the feet of the victim (14) all within an 8" radius of the center. This pattern was duplicated at the feet of Ronald Goldman with Mark Fuhrman’s hand marking the center of the five corresponding items. The fact that they appear in the same order, suggests that these coincidental similarities might have triggered a copy cat reaction in the killer. The fact that the items in the movie were not the same as the actual items found on Hanbury suggest that if the killer was a copy cat, he copied it from that movie.

Most of the other links would disappear without Fuhrman’s claim of seeing freshly laundered clothes (10) in O.J.’s washing machine writing about his strong identification with movie characters and the characters he combined (12, 6) to play one part he called his own. Then there’s his role as the first lead detective in the picture (12), the cop (6) who found the bloody leather glove (5-bloody leather apron) on a narrow path (3-a narrow bench) next to Kato Kaelin’s wall (4). There’s the matter of his interrogation of Kaelin (13) about the time he heard the thumps. There wouldn’t be as many connections without his proof of where the stick (7-an old fence) in front of O.J.’s Bronco came from (2-an alley in a run-down part of town a few blocks away).

If that isn’t enough for you, what do you think a man obsessed with O.J. and details and the 1988 release of The Naked Gun would have done with the early morning date 8^th September 1888? That would be the 7^th day of the 9^th month San Francisco time—7/9. Consider the fact that O.J.’s birthday is July 9 and he was born in Francisco (west cost, USA). Another way we write that date in the United States is 7/9. The English put the day ahead of the month when representing the date by numbers. You’d have to be thinking O.J. all the way to pick up on details like that.

One of the police officers in the picture (15) is wearing brown leather gloves, which you can see clearly in subsequent shots of the yard. The only significant character on the scene but not in the wide shot (unless you want to count the photographer and a doctor named Phillips who appear a short time later) is a suspect. He’s the doctor who’s going to perform the autopsy so he carries a bag much like the one O.J. always carried when he traveled and the one carried on the dock in The Naked Gun. The suspect is the only man in the yard without his hat on.

Also missing from the suspect’s head is an appreciable amount of hair. He has that in common with another suspect, an American actor (Armond Assanti) playing Jekyll and Hyde on stage. Wait till you see what’s lying at the feet of the Ripper’s second victim. No, it’s not a blue knit cap with a lot of O.J. Simpson’s hair in it, but you can see from what is there where a guy with a starring role as a detective on Bundy and Rockingham might have gotten the idea. In The Naked Gun we saw O.J. sneaking around at night with a bag in his hand wearing a dark blue coat and a dark blue knit cap. Remember Johnnie Cochran’s "who am I" demonstration with the cap in evidence? The bad guys in the movie framed him by planting false stories about his character and false evidence in the fibers of his blue coat. Did another familiar bell just ring?

Let’s put the record in order:

In 1975 Fuhrman leaves the Marine Crops and joins the LAPD. His first supervisor reports that his work suffers from his constant attempts to make "the big bust."

In 1980 Fuhrman’s second wife, Janet Hackett, leaves him for another man. Fuhrman later tells police psychiatrists that if he had caught them together he would have killed them both.

Between 1981 and 1983 Fuhrman tries to get a disability retirement from the LAPD based on a stress-related disorder which manifests itself in violent dreams, violent behavior and extreme racism.

Fuhrman describes symptoms that fit the experts’ profile of the condition he claims to suffer from. The fact that his accompanying body language is out of sync with his descriptions convinces the psychiatrists that he has researched the subject well enough to believe he could fool them. They never use the word sociopath but what they do say about his manipulative, obsessive, narcissistic personality and lack of conscience matches the definition. They all agree that he is an accomplished liar.

In ’84 the department denies his claim and puts him back to work. He gets reprimanded for applying a potentially deadly choke hold to a black man for jaywalking in front of a "white" movie theater.

In February, 1985 O.J. and Nicole get married.

Two months later Fuhrman approaches screenwriter Laura Hart in an outdoor café. Casual conversation leads to their collaboration on a screenplay called Men Against Women. He tells her how much he hates black people and how good he is at setting them up. He talks of the ease with which he and his LAPD friends could kill people.

He gets into two bitter confrontations with Asian-American Judge Lance Ito’s Caucasian wife, Lt. Margaret York. The first one involves a calendar and Fuhrman snickering about "KKK" written anonymously across Martin Luther King’s birthday. The second confrontation has to do with York’s attempt, as Fuhrman’s superior officer, to reassign him. He fights the reassignment and wins through the intervention of a Police Protective League delegate, a powerful union position that Fuhrman will later be elected to.

Fuhrman begins working in a gang/narcotics unit where he performs unknown duties for the next two years. This period is smack in between official police surveillance of O.J. as a suspected drug trafficker in the early ’80s and Nicole as a suspected customer of illegal drug traffickers in the early ’90s. Covert surveillance of suspected dope dealers and users connected to drug dealers is common practice. O.J. and Nicole live in Fuhrman’s territory and there are widespread rumors that O.J. and Nicole use cocaine. O.J.’s friend, Al Cowlings is definitely a user. If AC is under police surveillance, so is Denise Brown because they are going together. Both of them visit and party with O.J. and Nicole regularly.

Fuhrman strikes up a "friendship" with Ron Shipp, a black police academy instructor in spouse abuse who has known O.J. since childhood. He will leave the force in 1989. His last assignment will be in the forgery division. Shipp frequently brings fellow officers to O.J.’s house to meet him, to play tennis on his court and to swim in his pool. Shipp is also a friend of Nicole. Because of his cocaine addiction and his ties to O.J., Nicole, AC and Denise he is vulnerable to blackmail by a narcotics cop looking the make a big bust.

Near the end of the year, Fuhrman enters the Simpsons’ Rockingham estate when O.J. does something so bizarre that it might be attributable to drugs. He’s attacking his Mercedes Benz with a baseball bat. Fuhrman can know about it only by secretly monitoring the Simpson estate or the Westec private security company. There is no record of O.J. using threatening words or making threading gestures toward Nicole and no indication that she called Westec out of fear that he was going to harm her—as opposed to the car. With no drug bust to be made and no probable cau