Doc Johnson and the Phone Bill

The following is a modified reprint from a November 5, 2006 post on the Iago Discussion Board. For a more complete picture of this issue please read all of the relevant threads on the November 2006 Iago board starting from the posts near the bottom of the page...

Dr. Henry Johnson found a time discrepancy between a 9:37 P.M. phone call on the court display of Juditha Brown's phone bill and her claim that she made the call from home. He determined that she could not have gotten home until much closer to 10:00 P.M. or later. He accepted as true her claim and Denise Brown's claim that no one in the vehicle that took them from Brentwood to their home in Dana Point had a cell phone, which led him to believe that the phone bill presented in court as Juditha's was faked. He saw apparent anomalies in the date on the bill (July 4), the quality of the lines and the type as more evidence of a fraudulent document.  He also took Lou and Juditha's initial statement that Juditha last talked to Nicole for roughly 10 minutes in a phone call that began at 11:00 as a fact that would demonstrate Nicole was alive after 11:00. Thus, O.J. could not have murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman because there is indisputable proof based on another telephone record that he was with Kato Kaelin and Allen Park while Nicole was on the phone with her mother. http://www.ojcoverup.com

In short, Doc Johnson's conviction that a Juditha Brown phone bill showing a ten minute call from the Brown's home to Nicole's must exist and this record would prove O.J.'s innocence beyond all doubt.

Other phone records and objective time markers other than phone records and independent witnesses to the same events can bracket the interval when Nicole and Ron were murdered with only a two or three minute margin of error.  Even TV programs that began on schedule and a dog that barked continuously from an independently verifiable point in time can be used to make this calculation.

I don’t know why so many people keep missing the vital point about the barking dog with respect to  Donald Freed’s "clock" analysis in Killing Time. Dogs bark for many reasons but dogs can’t bark loudly, hysterically and almost continuously for twenty minutes or more without people in earshot of the barking hearing it. The constant barking is the common event that holds together or breaks apart the testimony of everyone in earshot who either heard the same thing or didn’t. The probative question is not, why did the dog bark? The question is, who did and who didn’t hear the same sound for the same duration?

You can make the same calculation with a car horn blasting continuously or a sudden downpour of heavy rain. You can do it with any sustained event that is common to several independent witnesses. You don’t have to guess when the event started or choose among witnesses you think are most credible if you have enough independent witnesses with a verifiable starting point for tying into the event at various points. That’s exactly what you get with Heidstra, Schwab, Karpf, the cop on Bundy who called Animal Control for Schwab, his dispatcher, the Animal Control operator, the blind date couple and Denise Pilnak.

You can’t get the continuous barking with Pablo Fenjves, who described what he heard at the start of the event as a “plaintive wail” and went to a soundproof room about five minutes later You can’t get it with Eva Stine, who was awaked from sleep and did not check a timepiece. And you can’t get it with Mark Storfer, who wasn’t interviewed or asked to recall the time he heard the dog barking until five months later. He, too, was asleep when other witnesses testified that all was quiet before they heard the barking.

In the end you get Schwab finding the dog with bloody paws before 11:00 and everything you need to verify that he did. The bloody paw prints on Bundy and the blood on the dog, not the barking, are what tell you about the dog’s relationship to the murders. Push Schwab’s finding of the dog ahead to 11:10 with a theoretical phone record that says Nicole was talking with her mother from 11:00 to 11:10 and you get a physical impossibility. Schwab could not have found the dog in that condition until Nicole was dead. The longer you assume that Nicole was on the phone with her mother after 11:00, the later it had to be when Schwab found the dog. Consequently, the more complex the coordinated lies have to be with Schwab, Heidstra, Pilnak, Karpf, the cop that Schwab flagged down on Bundy, his dispatcher, Animal Control, and now Mrs. Schwab, Sukru Boztepe and Bettina Rasmussen.

That’s a minimum of ten conspirators working in perfect harmony with each other just to fake Juditha Brown’s phone records, plus the entire prosecution team and the entire defense team conspiring to hide the “real” record. Does that really make sense?

Freed’s “clock” approach to reconstructing events is valid. It is testable with working scale models and it can be replicated by independent investigators who take the trouble to do it. When you put people in place on a reasonably accurate map prior to the common event (in this case, the barking dog) and set them in motion with an independent clock you can literally see what happened. If these stories did not reinforce each other in the right time and place, Heidstra’s timeline would not merge with Schwab’s. They do and it does. Nicole was dead before 11:00 and you don’t need any of Juditha’s phone records to know it. –Jasper

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