Crime Scenes        Presidents Notes 13-16...and 7              (124)

Every number game we’ve seen with Mark Fuhrman comes from the uncharacteristically “sloppy” way he wrote his 21464 badge number in Murder in Brentwood. He took it from the cover sheet of his Bundy crime scene notes used in O.J. Simpson’s murder trial.

21464 has five-digits. The first three read as a date give you St. Valentine’s Day (2,14). That day is symbolized by a heart (a valentine), which is represented in a plastic medallion on Nicole Simpson’s driveway, the word written twice on a sheet of paper outside of her front gate and a heart-shaped pool of blood near Ron Goldman’s boot. A heart can therefore be used as a signature for Valentine’s Day and a heart drawn in blood can be a signature symbolizing a deal with the Devil.  That’s not all. The last two digits in Fuhrman’s badge number are written in a way that can be read 666, the number of the anti-Christ. That means all signs of the Devil related to Fuhrman’s words, deeds and photos as an LAPD detective in O.J. Simpson’s murder trial are interchangeable.  

Sounds like a stretch, doesn’t it? A long stretch. It could be interpreted that way if Fuhrman didn’t refer to Lord of the Flies in his Murder in Greenwich movie and sign his name in red ink the way Jack the Ripper did in a letter to London's Central News Agency to symbolize blood. In Lord of the Flies, a boy named Jack was the leader of the “savages.” In his first incarnation his group was called “niggers.” In Murder in Greenwich, Fuhrman signs his name in red ink while making a joking reference to himself as a “genocidal racist.” It’s a scoffing allusion to what Johnnie Cochran said of Kathleen Bell’s letter about Fuhrman’s use of the word “niggers” and how he used it himself on the Laura Hart McKinny tapes. 

Fuhrman wrote the 2 in the first three digits of his badge number on his notes in a way that can also be read 714 (Sgt. Joe Friday’s badge number). That sounds like a stretch, too. And it would be if he didn’t make an explicit reference to Joe Friday in his first book to explain the composite character he said he was playing for a screenplay he was writing with Laura Hart. Another thing that his ambiguous 2 (or 7) does is highlight a Fuhrman pattern of habitually cramming multiple interpretations into things as important to him as his badge number that should be unambiguous. He did it repeatedly in his notes and in the rest of his book in a way that gave him plausible deniability.   

If you equate a man’s habits to a computer’s programs, you know what makes Fuhrman’s repetition of birthdays, death days and other significant anniversary dates worth paying attention to. The difference, of course, is the man’s capacity for self-awareness, giving him the power to consider the negative consequence of doing what he normally does thoughtlessly or to endure the struggle of overcoming the compulsion to do it anyway.

He cannot, however, do anything about unconscious habits or a habit that feeds on the danger of negative consequences. There is no thrill for a thrill junkie without the threat of disaster and no protection for an egomaniac driven to show how clever he is by hiding what he did in plain sight.  These are defining characteristics of Mark Fuhrman.

2, 14 is a point in a timeline fixed by numbers in a given sequence. In European, military, aviation, railroad and police time, the same date would be given as 14, 2. Moving the comma makes it 1, 42. Apart from changing the order of digits (or letters) all you have to do to change their meaning is to add, subtract or rearrange spaces and punctuation marks.

Lots of flexibility here, right? That’s only the beginning.

You can also put 214 in a logical order from highest to lowest (421) or lower to highest (124).  In the Swiss Army watch code 214 is a calculation wherein 2 = 2 and 14 = 22.  To get a two digit number out of that three digit number you have to drop the 2, the 1 or the 4. Dropping the 2 leaves 14. Dropping the one leaves 24. Dropping the 4 leaves 21.

For dyslexics like O.J. Simpson, the order in which any number or letter can be read in a stable order is problematic. It takes a special effort to keep them from switching around. Using dyslexia and the context clues dyslexics rely on to read normally, makes the creation of a number code easy.  The operative word is “flexibility.” According to Fuhrman on page 182 of Murder in Brentwood, “When you are building a timeline for murder, you have to remain flexible.”

That means you can rearrange Fuhrman’s numbers and what they represent according to his rules for building a timeline to represent something else if you know the appropriate context to decipher it. If that’s true, and he could not resist boasting in some way about what he did, it means he left coded messages that you can decode if you can find the words in the right Murder in Brentwood context to show you where to look. And that means the source cannot be ambiguous even if part of the message is.

Fuhrman’s object would not necessarily be to transmit a coded message but to show how smart he is by creating one like this in his 15^th Bundy crime scene note:

15) REAR GATE, INSIDE DEAD BOLT (TURN KNOB TYPE) POSS BLOOD SMUDGE AND VISIBLE FINGERPRINT.

BARRAUD’S DOG NIPPER BIT VISITORS LEG.   DIMES AND PENNIES LEFT ON GROUND.  (LET KATO BE BY D)

The words in parentheses don’t make much sense on their own but if “D” stands for Dorothy, the street interesting Bundy about 60’ southbound from Nicole’s condo, the 16^th note blends right into it.

16) BLOODY PAW PRINTS OF LARGE DOG LEADING FROM RESID, S/B ON SIDEWALK APPROX 60 FT S. OF RESID.

If the 16^th note can be read intact flowing from a Jumble puzzle solution to the 15^th, it might occur to you that the 14^th has something in it that flows into the 15^th ... It does.

There is no legitimate reason for note 14 to be listed separately from 15 unless it contains a separate message. It contains a slew of them in the surface message and a coded one.

14) REAR GATE, POSS BLOOD SMUDGE ON UPPER RAIL OF GATE.

14) DOGLEG AREA.  FIDO NO PROBLEM.  SUPERSTAR SETUP A GO.

A dogleg can be any obtuse angle defined by 3 points. Its origin in golf terminology is directly related to the Bronco leased to O.J. by Hertz in 1994, his morning golf game on June 12, his missing golf club that evening and the reason for his midnight flight to Chicago on June 13.  If you draw two lines, the first from the alignment of the coins and the blood drop on Nicole’s driveway and the second from the blood drop (minus the trash cans) to the gate, you get a dogleg. The blood drop pattern on O.J.’s driveway at the Rockingham gate is another dogleg. So is the line of travel from his driveway and through either the Rockingham or Ashford gates to where he normally parked his Bronco.

Franklin Pierce, the 14th President was a "doughface," a derisive name for Northern politicians with pro-slavery sympathies. He suffered a serious leg wound as a one-star general in the Mexican War. In Capricorn One, O.J. Simpson is astronaut Jack Walker. The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested by U.S. and U.K. teams of leading amateur golfers. It is named after the 41^st President’s maternal grandfather, who was president of the United States Golf Association when the match began in 1920.   

Bush 41 (George Herbert Walker Bush) was born on June 12, 1924, the anniversary day of of the Bundy murders. The maiden name of his wife Barbara’s mother was Robinson. Her father was Marvin Pierce the president of McCall Corporation later sold to the Charter Co. Marvin Pierce was a direct descendent of the 14^th President, Franklin Pierce. Depending on the source you go to, Franklin Pierce had no dogs, 7 "miniature oriental dogs" or two Japanese "sleeve dogs," presented to him by Admiral Perry. The white dog on Bundy was a Japanese Akita. The black dog on Rockingham was a Chinese Chow

The limo that took O.J. to the airport was a Lincoln Continental (click on the link and search “Continental”). O.J. customarily tipped airport skycaps with a five-dollar bill. Abraham Lincoln, the President on the penny and the five dollar bill had a dog he was photographed with before he took office. It was the first Presidential dog ever photographed. His name, which has long been used as a generic dog name, was Fido.

This is where an artist with a strong interest in war, history and the power of political cartoons would say that the American Civil War began in 1854, rather than 1861 with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This is also where you can begin to see how the numbering system in Fuhrman’s Bundy notes from 13 to 16 correspond to the Millard Fillmore (13), Franklin Pierce (14), James Buchanan (15), Abraham Lincoln (16) order of Presidents.

In light of what Fuhrman said about the swastika cartoon on his desk, the German and British WW I and WW II memorabilia he said he collected and his train drawing in People, this is a good place for a WW I photo of Adolph Hitler and his Jack Russell terrier

An 1856 cartoon depicts a giant free soiler being held down by James Buchanan and Lewis Cass standing on the Democratic platform marked "Kansas", "Cuba" and "Central America". President Pierce also holds down the giant's beard as Stephen A. Douglas shoves a black man down his throat.

In case it slipped your mind, Stephen Douglas was Republican Presidential candidate Lincoln’s Democratic opponent in the election of 1860. In case you didn’t know, the Republican convention that nominated Lincoln was held in Chicago.

One more reminder is in order relative to the dimes and pennies on the Bundy driveway the night that O.J. (#33) flew to Chicago. Two Presidents in American History share the first name Franklin; the 32^nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the 14^th, Franklin Pierce.

Somewhere in or between Fuhrman’s 13^th and 16^th note you would expect some mention of the coins, the blood drop and the plastic heart photographed on Nicole’s driveway and the photographer who snapped the shots. All of them appear in a decoded first half of note 13

13) AT REAR GATE ON N/S OF RESID – TWO BLOOD SPOTS AT BOTTOM INSIDE OF GATE. THIS AREA MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHERE THE DOG WAS KEPT.

13) ROKAHR GOT SHOTS OF FIVE ITEMS ON D/W BEHIND GARAGE–GATE AREA; TWO DIMES, TWO PENNIES, THE BLOOD SPOT.  [BEAT A HEART TEST?]

You can spend hours rearranging the letters in brackets left over from the five items that Rokahr photographed in the area defined by the garage and the gate (driver side of Jeep). But there was a plastic heart on the scene in the area defined by the garage or the Jeep and the hedgerow (driver side of the Jeep). You can even extract whole word from the letters to put in the main body of the paragraph with no letters left over but they add nothing essential to the message and disperse the letters needed to spell “heart.” But if you do the entire note in two parts you can get this:

13) AT REAR GATE ON N/S OF RESID – TWO BLOOD SPOTS AT BOTTOM INSIDE OF GATE. THIS AREA MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHERE THE DOG WAS KEPT. Suspect ran through this area. Susp possibly biten by Dog?

Note: If Fuhrman had spelled "bitten" correctly (he omitted a "t") and Nicole did not routinely park her Jeep Cherokee where it was photographed on June 13, the solution below would not be possible.

13) ROKAHR GOT SHOTS OF FIVE ITEMS ON D/W BEHIND GARAGE–GATE AREA; TWO DIMES, TWO PENNIES, THE BLOOD SPOT.  use HEART by sU h tire and buSh to BYPASS Coins. Bear trap seT? sPotlight gate.

SU is a rare 16"  tire model  marketed for the 1993-1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee. H stands for High Performance. The photo resolution of Nicole’s Jeep Cherokee tire is not good enough to see if it is a SU but the five-spoke wheel is a High Performance wheel. Train wheels do not have tires and the wheel is the coin connection to the #124 locomotive, which was christened the Haupt before it was renamed the Robinson. A bear trap and a spotlight on the gate are perfect metaphors for Fuhrman's bleeding killer theory and the flashlight that Fuhrman claimed showed him and Brad Roberts the fingerprint on the gate. It is probably no coincidence that "Brad shines light on gatepost" comes up in early attempts to solve the puzzle from scratch. It's what you would expect if this scenario was involved in the process of creating the puzzle.

This is how I got all of the covert “Presidents” notes (13-16) beginning with the Nipper interpretation of Fuhrman’s 15^th note:

I started with Fuhrman’s #124 locomotive drawing in the March 3, 1997 issue of People and its possible connection to the mystery of the coins on Nicole Simpson’s driveway.

It was inconceivable to me that Fuhrman, didn’t know exactly how many coins were on the driveway and in which denominations or that he didn’t give them enormous weight when he wrote his notes.  If one of the many things he wanted to get into his drawing was a comment on the coins, it seemed to me that the dog in his drawing and the drive wheels on Mason’s train where things he would have keyed on to do it.

I never thought that the coins and the tire tracks on the driveway were incidentally related or that a dime appeared on one of the tracks by accident. A penny has a wider circumference than a dime. When you stack a dime on top of a penny you therefore get an offset similar to the offset of a train wheel designed to keep the train on the tracks. The part of the wheel with the smaller circumference (the dime) sits on top of the track.

James Buchanan, the 15^th President of the United States, was the 5^th Mason to hold that office. The Masons who preceded him were George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson and James Knox Polk. The next Mason to follow him was Abraham Lincoln’s successor Andrew Johnson. Lincoln was accepted for membership prior to his 1860 election but decided to hold off until the end of his second term out of concern that he would be accused of joining for cynical political reasons. The Buchanan link to the pennies on Bundy is therefore not only the fact that Lincoln took his place in the White House but their mutual ties to Masons. The Buchanan link to the dime is also Masonic in that Franklin D. Roosevelt was a Mason.

Buchanan has two Fuhrman links: 1) He became a Mason on 1, 24, 1817, the month and day corresponding to the Mason locomotive construction number in Fuhrman’s People Magazine drawing. 2) His membership in the Masons was conferred upon him in Lancaster, PA.

In the People article on Fuhrman and the 124 train in the Civil War photo of the General Robinson and the Lieutenant General [Ulysses Simpson] Grant. When I saw the article and the Civil War photo, I knew that Fuhrman made the coin connection in his mind, just as he would have made the Jackie Robinson (WW II Army officer) connection to the number 124.

Perennial baseball All-Star Jack Roosevelt Robinson (Jackie Robinson), # 42 was the 1^st 20th century African-American baseball player in the Major Leagues. He made the September 22, 1947 cover of Time Magazine. and was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame with 124 votes. In 1949 (94) Jackie Robinson led the Majors with 124 runs batted in. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, a team formerly known as the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. The Dodgers name came from the fans who had to cross a maze of railroad tracks and dodge the trolleys (trains) to get to the stadium.

Dodge gives you Chrysler and Chrysler gives you the five-pointed star inside of the pentagon in the Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee logo from 1993 to 1999. 

Notes 13-17 aren't the only Presidents notes. They are just the ones in consecutive order somehow related to Mark Fuhrman's drawing of William Mason's locomotive # 124, which was built during the administration of the 13th President Millard Fillmore. As you've seen, the name Mason carries with it links to the bloody Simpson-Goldman murders and the Jeep, coins and blood drop on the murder scene driveway.

The 7th U.S. President, Andrew Jackson, is inextricably tied to the Cherokee Nation's  "Trail of Tears." He was also the President who appointed Henry Haupt, for whom Mason's 124 locomotive was first named during the Civil War, to West Point. Andrew Jackson's nickname was "Old Hickory."

7) CHILDREN (2) SLEEPING IN UPSTAIRS BEDROOM – AWOKEN BY OFCRS

7) NBS IN TEARS. OLD HICKORY ADMIRER ON SCENE OF S-G BL 2 WIPE UP. [NBS (Nicole Brown Simpson) SG (Simpson-Goldman) BL (bloodletting) 2 (to)]

Old Hickory is what the great Chicago White Sox outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson named his baseball bat. He carved it out of hickory. You wouldn't be wrong to call it a "hickory stick."

The lyrics of the 1907 "School Days" chorus is something else to think about in this context:

School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate
"I love you, so"
When we were a couple of kids

The "couple of kids" in Fuhrman's "Old Hickory note" were Sydney and Justin Simpson. Ron Goldman was was the second Bundy murder victim. Nicole was murdered in her bare feet on the night she attended the recital at Sydney's middle school. In Nicole's "school days" she was voted her high school's homecoming queen: The "slate" in the song is a portable chalk board made of artificial stone. If you look closely at the artificial stone slab where the Mothers poem sits, you will see a chalk mark. The hearts in the poem are symbols of love. The names at the bottom of the paper are another "couple of kids."

What do you think the odds are of a war and history buff police detective tying all those things together beneath the surface of his murder scene notes coincidentally?

--Jasper