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Michal McClinton Background
The best criminal plans keep professional criminal investigators from ever asking the relevant questions. Compound questions are best because they seem to be inherently unreasonable. For instance: Did Mark Fuhrman and Brad Roberts employ a professional Las Vegas-based assassin to murder a Las Vegas man in 1994 and to set up O.J. Simpson for false criminal charges in the 2007 Las Vegas incident? To find the answer to that awkward, compound question you have to ask it. But to ask it you have to know enough about Fuhrman, Roberts, McClinton, O.J. and his former agent Mike Gilbert to know that is a reasonable question.
We know little about McClinton. Still, we know enough to recognize the Fuhrman bell ringers, movie formulas and codes he used to make a list of McClinton bell ringers.
We know what he looked like when he appeared in court wearing diamond earrings. We know how he was dressed on the Palace Station Casino and Hotel surveillance tapes and how he carried himself. We know the words he chose to use and the things he chose to do to make a prosecutable case of armed robbery and all of the associated criminal charges against O.J. Simpson and C.J. Stewart. We know that he, along with O.J.’s former agent Mike Gilbert, the sports memorabilia dealers Bruch Fromong and Alfred Beardsley that O.J. thought were his friends, supplied the building blocks for the prosecution.
McClinton testified that he had two business; “security,” and home service. The concealed weapons permit that he acquired from the State of Nevada was never tied to his “security business.” He got away with saying only that he wanted it because he liked guns. His answer to the only question about what he meant by “home service” was, “Paint and things like that.” No details were ever supplied by any source, authoritative or otherwise, about his businesses and how they generated the income necessary for him to live in his current and previous Las Vegas homes. When he was arrested in 2007, he lived in a $400,000 home. His previous home was valued at over $300,000.
McClinton is left-handed. He uses reading glasses. His middle initial is F. O.J.’s Las Vegas arrest report says that he was born on January 29, 1954. On the day of the Palace Station incident he indicated that his daughter was living with him. The girl’s mother was not named and no one asked him whether he was married or divorced. No one even confirmed that he had a daughter living with him. The only indication that he did was a December 31, 2003 Las Vegas Review-Journal story about a freak Las Vegas snowfall:
Randall Spencer and his 9-year-old daughter, Amber, spent part of their morning building a giant snowman. They nicknamed him 'Big Fella' and likened him to basketball star Shaquille O'Neal.
McClinton lost his driver’s license but got another one under the name Randall Spencer. He testified that he was able to get the Nevada driver’s license through the intercession of a woman he knew in the licensing agency. She was never named or questioned by the prosecution, the defense or the press. Consequentially, the possibility that McClinton had a covert special relationship with Nevada legal authorities was never investigated. He also obtained a Nevada license to carry a concealed weapon under the name Michal McClinton in spite of his criminal record. He was arrested but not prosecuted in the 1990s for procuring, assault and kidnapping.
McClinton was not charged for the illegal assault weapon found in his house during the 2007 Las Vegas Metro Police search of his home.
For reasons we don’t know, most of McClinton’s history is a question mark. According to his 2007 preliminary trial testimony he was a Las Vegas resident and had been one for 15 years. That means he lived there in March of 1994 when retired Army Sergeant Major Robert C. Hurd was murdered and Mark Fuhrman and Brad Roberts went to Las Vegas to assist the Las Vegas Metro Police in the investigation. McClinton previously lived in Carson, California. When he lived there, other than when he was arrested in 1986 for his unspecified involvement in a larcenous prostitution ring, is unclear. Before he moved to Carson he lived in Milwaukee, one of three cities that hosted the Braves baseball team.
All of McClinton’s contacts with O.J. were in the company of Walter Alexander.
Alexander, a pimp known as “Goldie,” was the nephew of accused Phoenix “Baseline Killer,” Mark Goudeau, who was also the godfather of O.J.’s deceased daughter Aaren. Goudeau was facing charges of murdering 9 people in Phoenix when Alexander was arrested at the Las Vegas Airport on a tip from a female caller. A spokesman for the Las Vegas Metro Police reported that the woman did not give her name but said she knew O.J. and that she was a close friend of Nicole Simpson. Whoever she was, only Alexander, his California lawyer Robert Rentzer (Rodney King’s lawyer) and Michael McClinton could have told her where Alexander would be and when he would be there.
Alexander testified in the preliminary hearing that he’d known McClinton for 15 years (since 1992) but only by the name Spencer or Spence. He said that he met O.J. in 1998.
So, Spencer the pimp, met Goldie the pimp, in 1992. That's six years before Alexander said he met O.J. McClinton didn’t say where he met O.J. or the circumstances that brought them together for the first time. He did say that he met Alexander in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The question becomes, "What did they have in common, other than being pimps, that would draw them to the same place at the same time and form the basis of a 15-year friendship?"
Knowing the year that McClinton and Alexander went to Atlantic City, presumably from Las Vegas, Nevada and Mesa, Arizona respectively, you can safely deduce that they were drawn there by a mutual passion for a big event. Excluding the annual Player's Ball, which does not appear to have ever been held in New Jersey, the leading candidate for that big event has to be a world heavyweight championship boxing match.
Did Atlantic City host a world championship heavyweight fight it 1992? Yes; Ruiz vs. Jones. We have no evidence that McClinton and Alexander attended the fight but boxing gives us a lead we can follow to determine whether it was possible and then, depending on where and when other championship fights were held, how likely it was that they did.
A Higgins photo taken in June of 2002 shows O.J. sitting ringside with an unidentified man at the Evander Holyfield vs. Hasim Rahman world heavyweight title fight in Atlantic City. The tag hanging from the man’s neck that says “Bally’s/Caesar’s” suggests that he worked for the casino/hotels where one of them was set up to host the fight. The year before, a fight between Holyfield and George Forman was hosted at a Donald Trump casino in Atlantic City.
On the witness stand in O.J.’s 2007 preliminary hearing, McClinton said he’d known O.J. for 3 ½ or 4 years. A photo taken at a Las Vegas heavyweight title boxing match close to that timeframe (March 1, 2003) at the Thomas & Mack Center shows Walter “Goldie” Alexander with Tom Scotto, O.J. and an unidentified man in a fedora-style hat. Alexander lived in Mesa, Arizona at the time. Scotto and O.J. lived in Miami. This photo tells us that O.J. was enough of a boxing fan to travel from Florida to Nevada to see the fight in person. Shaquille O’Neal was also a spectator at the event. George Foreman, the man Mark Fuhrman named as his favorite athlete, was the color commentator for HBO.
CLUSTERS AND LOOPS
Finding Fuhrman/McClinton links when exploring themes like boxing, baseball, time travel or characters named after guns is relatively easy. They either exist or they don’t. But to gauge the likelihood that they would converge by chance in significant ways where they do exist in the words and actions of Fuhrman and McClinton should be tougher. It should be tougher because you need to see them in strings (a theme is a string) of unlikely clusters drawn together each time by specific things they said and did. Meaningless connections don’t go far along those strings. They peter out quickly or end abruptly. That’s not what happens when you follow those themes with Fuhrman and McClinton. They loop back to Fuhrman and McClinton, often in unexpected ways.
It isn’t necessary to prove that McClinton was the seated man in the hat to get a boxing link between him and Alexander. Alexander’s appearance in the photo, considering their first meeting in Atlantic City, is enough to show that boxing is a McClinton bell ringer.
Everything about the seated man’s hat is consistent with plausible deniability. We don’t know that McClinton is wearing it. Maybe it’s just a guy unassociated with O.J. and Alexander who was sitting in the wrong seat or who had found his when they approached his row looking for theirs. Maybe he didn’t want his face in a photo for personal reasons. Maybe he didn’t care one way or another. The deliberate creation of questions like these is the essence of plausible deniability. Deliberate or not, the hat creates the questions.
McClinton fits into the logic of the Atlantic City hypothesis as the seated man in the hat. He does it on several counts apart from his Las Vegas residency and the contacts he had with O.J. only in the company of Walter “Goldie” Alexander. Study the photo carefully. You can tell where O.J. was going when the photo was taken and what Alexander is holding in his right hand (hint: look at what O.J. is holding in his left hand). The tilt of the seated man’s hat tells you that he’s looking at O.J. and O.J.’s face tells you that he’s looking at the camera. That means the hat man was aware of the camera and that his hat blocked any distinguishing feature of his head from being identified in a photo.
Regardless of who the seated man in the hat was, the presence of Alexander in the photo shows him at a championship boxing match. The idea that “Goldie” and “Spencer” traveled to Atlantic City to see a boxing match over a decade earlier is therefore not as farfetched as it might have seemed with nothing tangible to go on.
Rovaan discovered both photos while trying to test the Atlantic City hypotheses with a Google search. A byproduct of her discovery was a test of the common interest-special event logic that led to the hypotheses. This is not to say that logic is an ideal way to gather hidden information because sometimes information required to draw the right conclusion is missing. It is to say only that some key bits of information can be used to make a logical case to explore uncharted waters. You learn in the process of that exploration what someone already knew: If you were wrong, the waters dry up. If you were right they keep flowing into relevant tributaries that loop back to your starting point.
That’s what happens not only with McClinton and boxing, but with him and actors, word game codes, birthdays, hammers, trains, clocks, guns, Fuhrman, Roberts and the unsolved murder of Robert C. Hurd. Jr.
WHAT’S IN A NAME? The Fuhrman name game connection
One way that actors, characters, props and so on in Fuhrman-related movies link to each other is by sound-alike names. The same is true of Michael “Spencer” McClinton.
Few details that McClinton volunteered about his guns makes sense within the context that he volunteered them. He did not have to identify his .45 caliber Ruger as a “P245.” But he did. He did not have to say that the Ruger and the Beretta were loaded with full “clips” (magazines). But he did. He did not have to say that he, a man named Michael, “chambered” a round in his .45.
It just happens that in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer TV series with Stacey Keach as Hammer, the weapon that Hammer carries and uses often is a .45. It also happens that he has a police homicide detective that he works with, a captain named Pat Chambers. Hammer's home and office are in New York City but in an episode called "Murder Takes All, he is kidnapped and flown to Las Vegas.
In addition, given McClinton’s knowledge of guns and Alexander’s ignorance of guns, it made no sense for McClinton to give Alexander a loaded weapon in the first place. The fact that it was a .22 and McClinton said repeatedly that Alexander “shined it off” looks more like a Twilight Zone code linked to two versions of The Shining than anything else.
In the 1997 movie Steel, Shaquille O’Neal becomes the mortal counterpart of the Norse
Annabeth Gish is Sparky. In Wyatt Earp (’94) with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman she’s Urilla Sutherland (watch for the loop in “Gish” and “Sutherland”). Lillian Gish, no relation Annabeth although Annabeth’s grandmother’s name was Lillian, costarred with O.J. in Hambone and Hillie (’83).
Richard Roundtree, who shares O.J. Simpson’s birthday, is Uncle Joe, a master metal worker and occasional dealer is stolen goods posing as a junkyard proprietor. His role as the title character in Shaft (’71) was worked into Steel with Uncle Joe’s completion of the high-tech super hero hammer. He says, “I particularly like the shaft.”
Rutanya Alda is a robbery victim in Steel. She is a
So, what else is in this Alda name? It gives us two other significant names: 1). Donald, as in Donald Trump, the owner of Jersey City casino-hotels who is featured with his wife Marla on the March, 1994 cover of Vanity Fair. 2) Hawkeye, as in "Hawke Eyes," the name of a March, 1994 Vanity Fair piece on Ethan Hawke. This is something on or near every page in that Vanity Fair issue associated with Ethan Hawke that loops back to Mark Fuhrman, Robert C. Hurd and Michael McClinton.
McClinton went to the Las Vegas Spy Shop with Walter Alexander the morning of the Palace Station incident and purchased a tiny video camera and tape recorder. McClinton claimed that he could not get the spy camera to work and that he used his mini-tape recorder only after the incident. However, the reason he gave for purchasing the covert recording devices that morning contradicts his claim that he didn’t have them with him in O.J.’s hotel room at the Plaza that afternoon or in Tom Riccio’s room at the Place (train) Station that night. He said that he wanted to get candid recordings of O.J. at Tom Scotto’s wedding reception (but not the wedding where O.J. was Scotto’s best man?).
The Las Vegas Metro Police produced no recordings that McClinton made before the incident and no evidence that anything was wrong with the spy camera or McClinton’s ability to use it. McClinton consistently referred to the incident as a “robbery.”
John Henry Irons becomes a crime fighter when he witnesses bank robbery carried out by a
FAMILIAR FACES
Tina Faye is not Sarah Palin. Shannon Tweed is not Stella Stevens. Dale St. John is not Fred Goldman. Mike Brambles is not Mark Fuhrman. They just look enough alike for one to recall the other when you see them in a given context. A blonde wig would have made it hard to tell the difference between Denise Brown and her sister Nicole. Michael McClinton’s Van Dyke was enough to transform him into a double for Avery Brooks as Hawk in Spenser for Hire and Captain Sisco in the last two seasons of Deep Space Nine.
If you’re seen enough old movies, you can pick out the actor who looks the most like Elmer Fudd whether or not you know his name.
Walter Alexander has a familiar look about him that you might not recognize until you pointedly ask yourself, “Who does he look like?” and start sifting through the mug books in your head for actors in old movies. You might even get flashes of Little Caesar, Double Indemnity, McKenna’s Gold and Key Largo before it hits you that his closest match is the guy who plays Mr. Wilson in The Stranger, Edward G. Robinson.
This is why Walter “Goldie” Alexander’s resemblance to Edward G. Robinson matters:
Following Fuhrman movie formulas over the years conditions you to look for a pizza, a wig, a train, a diamond, a bear, a time shift, the number 22, a significant birthday, etc. Fuhrman has hundreds of etceteras for us to key on because he has hundreds of bell ringers that we know about. But where something specific in a movie leads you to another one, the validity of the lead depends on finding it in the other movie. Fuhrman’s birthday coupled with a lookalike in his movie ultimately gives you Edward G. Robinson.
Murder in Greenwich is saturated with bell ringers that were identified in The Smoking Gun and The Smoking Gun 2. To tie some of them together, only his signature in red ink would do. To tie other things together only Mark Fuhrman’s birthday would do.
The signature was obvious. The birthday was not.
You don’t begin to see the birthday until a familiar bearded face in the crowd behind Hildy Southerlyn at the train station sends you to the “mug shots” in your head of lookalike actors. The man with the familiar face is wearing a suit and talking on a cell phone. You get Silver Streak (’74) with Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein), Jill Clayburgh as “Hilly” and Richard Kiel (the Twilight Zone Kanamit who leaves the book “To Serve Man” for Michael Chambers to decode. The actor’s name is Stefan Gierasch (the caretaker in The Rosary Murders with Belinda Bauer and Donald Sutherland). He looks nothing like Edward G. Robinson in Silver Streak but the role he plays in that movie as an imposter is an homage to Robin’s duel role in The Prize.(’63).
Mark Fuhrman’s February 5 birthday is his link to "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron, Charlotte Rampling and Jennifer Jason Leigh It also gives you two other birthdays by way of Jennifer Jason Leigh's father Vic Morrow (February 14 – Valentine’s Day”) and his friend Jason Robards (July 26 – Connie Law code) from whom Jennifer adopted her middle name.
Wiki: “...Arena polo matches usually consist of four 6 minute periods (called chukkas or chukkers...”).
Murder in Greenwich, chapter 1 “Their parents were corporate executives, lawyers, Wall Street bankers, socialites, and polo players. They led a comfortable and sheltered existence -- until Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club...”
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twin who beats a man to death with his own prosthetic leg. Although her role in Steel is small, the fact that she appeared in that movie at all is
significant because she also appeared in an episode of Spencer for Hire. Alan Alda (no relation to Rutanya) is the Army doctor in the M*A*S*H TV
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happening around him on a remote monitor and they can communicate with each other. Steel’s camera and transceiver work perfectly. Sparky records everything.
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