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From: Jasper
Date: 4/1/02
Time: 9:25:14 PM
LOLL,
Several light-colored SUV's are associated in one way or another with the Bundy murders and Mark Fuhrman's was one of them. But his was not a white Bronco. But in many ways Fuhrman's light green and white International Harvester Scout would have been a better choice for the killer than a white Bronco.
I went into various reconstructions of the double homicide with the idea that the best way to frame O.J. was to use his own shoes, his own cap and his own white Bronco. Little by little I learned that an effective frame-up requires only a cornerstone of real physical evidence with which to build a credible circumstantial case. The rest can be accomplished with the power of suggestion if the killer is in a position to make the first suggestions.
When you think about the nuts-and-bolts of setting O.J. up, committing the double homicide and getting away with it, driving a white Bronco has a huge drawback for the killer.
If the killer uses a white Bronco of his own or one he borrows from a friend or relative, the link to him won't be hard to find by a determined investigator. O.J. could afford to hire the best. If he steals a stranger's white Bronco the theft is certain to be discovered before, during or after the crime, thus robbing it of its frame-up value and exposing the frame-up for what it is. If he steals O.J.'s Bronco, he runs the risk of O.J. discovering the theft and calling the police to report it.
As a practical matter, it is better for the killer not to drive a white Bronco at all. Basic Psychology tells us that if there are witnesses and they think the killer drove a white Bronco, chances are good that they will swear they saw a white Bronco as long as the vehicle they did see was similar. If they say otherwise, it's certain that the prosecution will argue that they actually saw a white Bronco. These are patterns in vehicle identification that I saw again and again in other murder cases after the '94 Bundy murders. It's something that only a person with a background in human psychology and practical experience in the American criminal justice system would have know about before the Bundy murders.
Most people are convinced that Robert Heidstra testified to seeing a white Bronco. Chris Darden is the one who insisted on calling it a white Bronco.
Heidstra owned a Blazer. He'd seen O.J.'s Bronco when he was detailing the Salinger's car. And Jeeps were a common sight in Brentwood. Yet Heidstra, who knew cars better than most people did because of his line of work, had trouble describing the vehicle he saw turning south onto Bundy (the direction where Fuhrman said he fund the fencing that matched the stick). Heidstra said that it was a light-colored SUV, which was something like a Blazer or a Jeep. That's a much better description of Fuhrman's light green Scout than O.J.'s Bronco. -- Jasper