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Change (related links: Rokahr Forerunners) John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States on January (1) 20, 1961. On February (2) 10, 1961, CBS aired the “Twenty Two” episode of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone. 33 years later Det. Mark Fuhrman and his West L.A. supervisor Det. Ron Phillips signed into the Bundy Dr. murder scene at 2 10. The number 210 is translatable on Nicole Simpson’s Swiss Rounding off minutes to the nearest five minute increment as the officers on Bundy did when they signed in, gives each sign-in time a two minute margin for error on each side of the given time. This calculation assumes that the entries were made conscientiously in every case. Having to make that assumption to get within four minutes of the actual times the officer's signed in, leaves a margin for error and manipulation that requires more information and more sophisticated calculations to close. Two things need to be remember in this regard: 1). When rounding crime scene arrival times to the nearest five minute mark (5, 10,15, 20, 25, 30, et.) the order in which some officers arrived relative to others is blurred. 2). The numbers between the five minute marks are dropped – like loose change. Background Notes Sooner or later in trying to reconcile inconsistencies on the Bundy murder scene you have to tackle the question of how many coins Det. Tom Lange saw on Nicole Simpson’s driveway. Prosecution photos said a dime and a penny but Lange’s notes said two of each. Every time the issue came up in Lange's testimony he said that his note was wrong and the photos were right. Q: BY MR. COCHRAN: NOW, TALKING ABOUT OTHER MISTAKES, WITH REGARD TO YOUR REPORT WHICH INDICATED THAT YOU BOOKED TWO DIMES AND TWO PENNIES, DO YOU RECALL THAT? A: CORRECT. Q: AND IN FACT, YOU TOLD US ON THE STAND HERE YOU ONLY BOOKED ONE DIME AND ONE PENNY; IS THAT RIGHT? A: I DIDN'T BOOK EITHER. THEY WERE BOOKED BY THE CRIMINALIST. I INADVERTENTLY WROTE DOWN TWO DIMES AND TWO PENNIES WHEN IN EFFECT IT WAS ONLY ONE DIME AND ONE PENNY. Lang was the only police officer to make a contemporaneous note of the number of coins and their denominations that the photos were supposed to depict. The defense made an issue of his note relative to the photos as a concrete example of how someone might have inadvertently or intentionally altered evidence in general or tailored their testimony to fit the way evidence was presented in court. The problem with the two photos of the coins that the prosecution turned over to the defense is that they sucked in composition and quality. They had different asphalt color values. A dime and penny were in different places in each photo. The resolution was too poor to see details of the coins that would identify them definitively as the same coins. Both photos were cropped so tightly around the coins that nothing else on the scene could be used as a point of reference to locate them precisely. But the size of the coins in both photos is consistent, the photo angle is the same and a numbered photo ID card next to a dime and a penny appeared in only one photo. Criminalist Dennis Fung used photo ID cards. Police photographer Rolf Rokahr did not. So, are we talking 11 cents or 22 cents? It takes the controversy to get both plus a coordinated effort and hell of a good reason for that effort on the part of someone in the prosecutor's office and the applicable photo lab to produce the controversy. Fuhrman, who said “focusing on details is what being a detective is all about,” on page 56 of Murder in Brentwood, demonstrated repeatedly that he did focus on details. Why then, would he not have looked for blood on the coins, noted exactly what and where they were relative to the blood drop and which ones were heads up and down? He gave no indication of whether he saw one dime and one penny (11 cents) or two dimes and two pennies (22 cents) although he and Ron Phillips were the first detectives to see the coins and Phillips pointed them out to Lange. Fuhrman says nothing about them in his Bundy notes. On page 55 of Murder in Brentwood he associates the undifferentiated “coins” with Lange (22 cents) and the possibility of “a bleeding O.J.” but puts the coins in the wrong place: “The coins found in the rear alley might also have put a bleeding O.J. Simpson at the murder scene on the night of June 12. I have been unable to find out whether those coins were ever fingerprinted, but during Lange’s testimony, his orders as to which items should be dusted for prints did not specifically include the coins.” A detective turning the coins over to check for blood on or under them after they were photographed where Officer Riske found them would explain why the same coins were shot in different spots on the driveway. Yet, no one offered that simple explanation, which implies that they were not turned over for inspection on the scene. It’s also another indication that Rokahr, who developed his own photos, did not take the coin photos with the different background color values used as evidence in the trial. Fuhrman uses the word “coins” three times in his reference to them on page 55 of Murder in Brentwood and never specifies their number or denomination. Regardless of how many dimes and pennies were there, “rear alley” is redundant, and the “change,” as Fuhrman calls it on page 210, was not in the alley. It was on the driveway near a gate, a SUV and a blood drop – portents of things to come on Rockingham, just like the bloody leather glove. The operative word is “change” considering its double meaning. Changing 11 and 22 cents to a month and day has more than an interesting homicide connection to three U.S. Presidents on legal tender coins. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt (the dime) was the target of an assassination attempt in which the mayor of Chicago (O.J.’s destination on June 12, 1994) was fatally wounded in Miami. The assassin said that he always wanted to kill a "king" (the Northridge Earthquake Map gives you a King). Lincoln (the penny), who saw himself with pennies over his eyelids in a casket, was shot to death while attending a play in Washington, D.C. (O.J. under a bus in The Naked Gun 2 1/2). An Army major in his party was stabbed with the assassin’s knife. Kenney (half dollar) was killed in his Lincoln limo on November (11), 22, 1963. The controversy of the coins in Tom Lange’s 1995 O.J. murder trial testimony was a portent of things to come in Mark Fuhrman’s writing and movie producing career, no less than Lincoln’s vision of himself in a coffin. Fuhrman’s 2006 book A Simple Act of Murder: November 22, 1963 gives us Kennedy, 11 and 22. His reference to Lange’s testimony about “the coins” gives us 22. And twenty-two takes us into a classic Rod Serling Twilight Zone episode called “Twenty Two” about portents of violent death to come. “Twenty Two” could be the first thing that pops into your head when you begin the 1st page in chapter 1 of Murder in Brentwood if you know about the 11/22 controversy of the coins and that the Swiss Army watch equivalent of October is 22. Even if you formed the link in your subconscious with the knowledge of O.J. going to the airport and “Twenty Two” ending at an airport in the explosion of a plane bound for Miami you can quickly see why you thought of it. It's in the first two sentences of the first two paragraphs. “On Wednesday, October 2, 1996, I walked in the criminal courts building in downtown Los Angeles to face charges of perjury. In twenty years on the LAPD, I had spent a lot of time there... “As I rode the elevator up to the ninth floor, these familiar surrounding became less comfortable. Flanked by uniformed and plainclothes sheriffs, my attorney and I walked down the hall and entered Department 109...” Remember, 9:50 on “The Hearse Driver” clock shows both hands pointing to 10, the p.m. time on the Swiss Army watch for 22. Mark Fuhrman was 9 years old when "Twenty Two" first aired. Department 109 has to be a room. The first two digits of that number correspond to 22 on Nicole’ Simpson’s Swiss Army watch. The 9, which Fuhrman mentions twice in conjunction with his elevator ride, is also very interesting because of what doubling it to get 18 has to do with an elevator in the story that Rod Serling gave Bennett Cerf credit for basing his “Twenty Two” on. Turning 9 upside down makes it a 6. The Swiss Army watch equivalent of 6 also happens to be 18. You can play this number game to get 18 only with three other 3 digit numbers out of nine-hundred ninety-nine possible combinations. Coincidence? Not likely. Not close to likely... The first paragraph in chapter 2 of Murder in Brentwood begins: “The phone rang at 1:05...” In the 2nd paragraph of chapter 2, Fuhrman quotes his friend and supervisor Ron Phillips. “‘We’ve go a double homicide,’ he said.” Doubling 105 gives you 210. 2:10 as the exact time Fuhrman and Phillips signed into the scene of the double homicide. One minute either way on the timing of the call or the sign-in and the call has no more meaning than its face value. With it you have a formula that always applies to something in The Twilight Zone, like the double roles in “Shadow Play, the double meaning in “To Serve Man,” the doppelgangers in "Mirror Image," plus the double role and all the double meanings in “Twenty Two.” We all know from common experience how hard it is to tell the same story twice in exactly the same way. You are not likely to recall everything the way an audio or video tape would record it. You might confuse something that someone said with something someone else said or inadvertently mix in something from a similar experience you had in a different time or place. Depending on the people you’re telling it to and why you’re doing it you will add some details and omit others for the sake of brevity, accuracy, obfuscation or for dramatic or humorous effect. The words that come to mind are therefore related to all of these considerations and inputs. That’s why the more you know about Rod Serling’s “Twenty Two” the more you’ll know about Mark Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood and the double homicide that made Fuhrman's book possible. Doubles is a recurring theme with the Bundy killer, with Mark Fuhrman-the-detective, Mark Fuhrman-the-writer and Mark Fuhrman the-movie-producer. 22 is far and away the double digit number that he invokes most often in contexts that call special attention to it. Rod Serling’s “Twenty Two” starring Barbara Nichols as Elizabeth Powell,
Jonathan Harris as her With the symbolism of “Room for One More” in mind, consider what Mark Fuhrman says about Nicole in his Hypothesis Of A Murder chapter in Murder in Brentwood: “It’s Sunday evening, sometime after 10:00 [22]. Nicole Brown Simpson is sitting in the upstairs living room of her townhome. A telephone and two [doubles] take-out menus are nearby. Perhaps she is talking on the phone, or she could be planning to order some food for her friend who is coming over. “The rear window overlooks the alley and the driveway behind her house [her Ferrari was in the garage below the room]. She hears a car pull into the alley and stop near her driveway. Looking out the window, she recognizes the white Bronco. Her ex-husband steps out of the car. He’s dressed in dark clothing and a knit cap. What’s he doing here?, Nicole wonders...” Later in the chapter, Fuhrman explains the coins next to Nicole’s Jeep this way: “Simpson reaches into his pants, pulling his car keys from the pocket and dropping change onto the ground.”
http://www.logoblog.org/ferrari_logo.php Perhaps you noticed in Fuhrman's story that all you need to get "hearse" out of "hears" is to add an "e". and that "house," becomes "horse" by substituting an "r" for the "u". If you use a "spell check" you know that hearse and horse would "pass" the check because the words are spelled correctly although they make no sense in the context of the sentence. The fact that both "wrong" words do make sense in the context of a related story is a tip-off that Fuhrman used them for their "replacement" value. O.J. did not drive his red Ferrari because he was afraid it would kill him. Ron Goldman did drive the white Ferrari that O.J. gave Nicole. Her Ferrari, O.J.’s Ferrari and the Ford Bronco logo on a white background have one thing in common with Bennett Cerf’s “Room for One More” harbinger of death – a symbolic representation of a black horse. The problem here is that you don’t have four horses like in “Room for One More” or two of them like in the “Hearse Driver” segment of Dead of Night. You get O.J. as the “Hertz driver” but only three horses in all and one of them isn’t necessary black. Fuhrman solves the problem in Murder in Brentwood with his discovery and three-word synopsis of the movie Ghost. Only you won’t have to change anything the way he did to tie it to ideas from television and movies or the ghost stories Fuhrman borrowed from that evolved into “Twenty Two.” In the last full paragraph on page 42 Fuhrman says, “Searching the room, I looked toward the television and VCR, for no other reason than curiosity. Seeing an empty video box, I turned on the VCR and pushed eject. The videotape that I pulled from the machine was the movie Ghost. Although it had no evidentiary value, the tape’s being left in the VCR indicated that Simpson had probably just watched this story about love, jealousy, and murder.” In the next paragraph on page 43 he mention’s the Ferrari in O.J.’s garage. The movie Ghost has nothing to do with jealousy – but it does have a Ferrari and a Mustang. The harbinger of death in Ghosts was something the man who was going to be killed saw on television – a plane crash. He said, “These things always happen in threes.” Another double in The Twilight Zone series aired a week after "Twenty Two" in episode 18. It's about a passenger jet caught up in a time warp running low on fuel. It's called, "The Odyssey of Flight 33". –Jasper |
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