Fuhrman, Phillips, Soucie Map

Before May of 2007 when Solitairea1 discovered the name of the Las Vegas murder victim Fuhrman wrote about in Murder in Bentwood, there was no way to identify the Swiss Army watch code used in his Bundy notes. There was no way to know that the code existed much less to test whether it was real or imaginary.

Before then, questions surfaced about a detective named Tom Nolan who Ron Phillips testified he called on June 13 after calling a detective named Brad Roberts. The name matched Phillips’ phone records but Nolan’s presence on Bundy could be traced only to the testimony of Phillips and Fuhrman.  His only practical function (what he actually did) was to draw attention away from the fact that Fuhrman and Roberts were partners.

Tom Nolan wasn’t heard of again in the media until February 19, 1997. The public has never heard from him directly. In a Geraldo Rivera television interview with Fuhrman on February19, 1997, Fuhrman said that Roberts recently reminded him of another witness to the fingerprint in blood on the “brass” lock of Nicole’s back gate. The attention-getter here was the physical impossibility of anyone matching Phillips’ scant description of Nolan (male, West L.A. trainee detective) ever being on the murder scene with Fuhrman, Roberts and Phillips on the morning of June 13, 1994 without anyone else knowing it. There were, in fact, no indications that anyone else on Bundy did see him. The witness who did see someone with Roberts away from Bundy who could only have been "Nolan," could not identify him.

The evidence was more convincing that Phillips, Fuhrman and Roberts used Nolan’s name but another man playing his part appeared on Butler (West LA Police Station) and Montana with Roberts on those locations http://www.smartfellowspress.com/investigators.htm  If so, it is highly probable that he was a very close friend of Mark Fuhrman who also used Fuhrman’s credit card at the Pomona gas station to give him an alibi. The man who best fit those criteria was Kevin DeVries.

The absurdity of Fuhrman, Phillips and Roberts inventing a character called Detective Tom Nolan to facultative a murder, alibi and frame plot and using DeVries to play the part led to the one place where such far-fetched schemes are common – the movies.

Was there an actor named Tom Nolan? Yes. Was there anything unusual about him that matched Kevin DeVries? Unknown. Did Nolan, the actor, have striking connections to recurring Fuhrman themes like ghosts, birds, tombstones, resurrections and mistake identity? Yes. Did his list of acting credits include themes specific to Fuhrman’s gas station credit card alibi, Phillips’ call to Fuhrman, Roberts and Det. Tom Nolan in the second hour of June 13, 1994? Yes. Did he appear with anyone who had a starring role in such a movie? Yes he did.  Do other movies with overlapping themes in that movie take you closer to Fuhrman or farther away? They take you closer every time – but you don’t realize how much closer until you learn the name of the murder victim in Las Vegas that Fuhrman falsely identified as a retired Army master sergeant while giving only the name the man’s niece, Connie Law.

His name was Robert Charles Hurd Jr. He was a retired Army sergeant major who served in WW II, Korea and Vietnam. His first and last names take you to only one move in the Internet Movie Database. That movie is Blackenstein (’73). And Blackenstein takes you straight to a makeup artist name Gerald Soucie, a motorcycle mechanic that Fuhrman accused of murdering his wife and an episode of The Twilight Zone called “To Serve Man.”

Blackenstein coughed up the Swiss Army watch code (a systematic way of turning hours into dates) and the code coughed up a map of the area most affected by the Northridge earthquake of 1994. The first map below shows a portion of that map were Gerald Soucie suffered a fatal motorcycle accident in 1989. The map below shows a larger area that includes Redondo Beach and Torrance where Soucie died of his injures suffered in the accident. There is no sinister connotation to these maps, only a visual display of why movie makeup artist Gerald Soucie's accident and death would be bell-ringers to movie buff Mark Fuhrman that could have set off many others.