Nicole's Jeep Parked in Driveway – Unknown

At Mark Fuhrman's direction, police photographer Rolf Rokahr took photos of Nicole's Jeep parked in the driveway behind her garage in the early morning hours of June 13. Officer Riske and Sgt. Rossi testified to seeing the Jeep where Rokahr photographed it before Det. Fuhrman arrived. Det. Phillips who drove to Bundy with Fuhrman said that he, too, saw the Jeep parked in the driveway. Officer Riske also testified that a number of other officers saw the jeep where Rokahr took his  picture of it. Those officers were not called to testify.

Pablo Fenjves, Mark Storfer and Louis Karpf, three prosecution witnesses who had a good view of Nicole's driveway after the murders and before Riske and his partner arrived, testified that they did not see the Jeep or any other vehicle parked there.

The Jeep might have been there (like O.J.'s Bronco on Rockingham) and the civilian witnesses did not recall seeing it because they simply did not pay attention to it. It is also possible, given the extent to which every police officer called by the prosecution who worked with Fuhrman that morning shaded their testimony to agree with his. Riske, Rossi and Phillips all had previous contacts with Fuhrman, though Riske and Fuhrman claimed that they just knew each other in passing.

The trouble with Riske's testimony in general is that it begins to fall apart when he talks about two things: 1) Preservation of the crime scene and 2) Mark Fuhrman's role in the investigation. Despite photographic evidence to the contrary he either denies that evidence was moved or his memory goes bad. He says at one point that he walked out of the house and saw the photographer taking pictures of Fuhrman pointing to the glove. Later he says that he saw Philips and Fuhrman when they came back to Bundy from Rockingham and it was then that he saw Rokahr take the photo.

Riske gives every appearance of being an honest cop who told the truth to the best of his ability – but his ability to tell the truth about Fuhrman and evidence that Fuhrman was responsible for being photographed is questionable. Riske doesn't even call Fuhrman by name in his capacity as the investigator who told Rokahr what pictures to take in the back of Nicole's condo, which would include the coins, the back gate and the Jeep. However, Rokahr did take pictures on his own,  which might explain a thing or two about the coins and the Jeep.

One photo showed two dimes and two pennies. One photo showed a dime and a penny close together. Another photo showed a dime and a penny farther apart.

If someone tampered with the coins, why not the Jeep? The two coins farthest apart tell a better story that the two or the four close together. The Jeep on the driveway tells a better story than the Jeep in the garage – with room left over for another vehicle to park. It tells a story that doesn't require a garage door opener.

Like the missing coins, one of Nicole's garage door openers was missing. --Jasper

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