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A Tale of Two Coins (Double Eagle) 1984 was a big year for Mark Fuhrman and O.J. Simpson. It was the year they were "brought together by circumstances" -- three times. The first time was when Fuhrman moved to Redondo Beach across the street from a house with a real estate paper trail leading to O.J. Fuhrman was living in his Redondo Beach home ten years later when Denise Brown took a job at a dress and antique store in Torrance less than six miles away. The third time was when Fuhrman appeared on the Ashford side of O.J.'s Rockingham estate around the time of the World Series on a phantom domestic "violence" call involving O.J., Nicole and a baseball bat. The time in between is where the tale of two coins is written. It goes back in time to ancient Greece, forward to the Bundy murders and past HarperCollins' 2001 publication of Fuhrman's Murder in Spokane book to his 2002 movie production of Murder in Greenwich. As of March 2007 it's still going. On page 17 of Murder in Spokane Fuhrman says, "Working a serial killer case is like the World Series of homicide investigation...The serial killer and the detective are brought together by circumstances, the lack of a duty rotation, the fact that the detective was home when the phone rang, that he was the first one on the crime scene." In Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood he says, "The phone rang at 1:05 the mourning of June 13, 1994. I woke up and went to the kitchen to answer it, knowing full well that it probably wasn't a social call. I immediately recognized the voice of Ron Phillips, my good friend and boss at West LA Homicide...'We've got a double homicide,' he said. 'One of the victims might be the wife of O.J. Simpson'" Fuhrman was the first homicide detective on the crime scene. Later that morning he was the first detective inside of a second crime scene on Rockingham. Why was he there? Because he he told Phillips and Phillips told the RHD detectives that he knew the way. He had been there in 1984. The coins found near the back gate of
the Bundy murder scene are uniquely associated with O.J. Simpson,
his celebrity status, his connections to U.S. Presidents and his
role as a torch relay runner in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
The rely began in
Athens Greece where the first Olympics were held. The Lincoln
Memorial on the back of the penny is modeled after the Parthenon in
Athens, which was built in honor of the Olympic gods. Some pennies are stamped Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson ate their last meal at a Mezzaluna Restaurant run by Goldman's employer Keith Zlomsowitch. Nicole met Zlomsowitch at a Mezzaluna restaurant in Denver on a Christmas to New Years Day skiing trip with Grant Cramer, Kato Kaelin and Faye Resnick. O.J. was born in San Francisco and played his last year in the NFL as a San Francisco 49er. No other combination of coins give you these links to Orenthal James Simpson and to Mark James Fuhrman's theory that the coins fell out of O.J.'s pocket while he was reaching for the keys to his Ford Bronco after murdering Ron and Nicole. The torch on the back of the dime links the penny to the dime by way of O.J. Simpson as a torch bearer in the '84 Summer Olympics with Nicole and Denise running behind him (red shirts) in Sana Monica. On the night of the murders, O.J. took a Lincoln limo to the airport. The 1960 gold medal decathlon winner Rafer Johnson carried the torch into the Los Angeles Coliseum for the '84 Olympics. The games began following a speech by President Reagan. On page 97 of Murder in Spokane, Fuhrman links himself to those games and possibly to the routs that torch carriers ran with one phrase involving the 1984 Night Stalker investigation: "..charts and a layout I did for the 1984 Olympics." Fuhrman's top three athletes that he named in Murder in Greenwich, George Forman, Michael Jordon and Larry Bird, have at least one thing in common. All of them were Olympic gold medal winners. The actor who plays Alex Grafton in producer Mark Fuhrman's 2002 Murder in Greenwich movie also appears in a 1997 U.S./ New Zeeland production of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. According to one Hollywood version of the Olympic Games (in Jason and the Argonauts), the Greek hero Jason (the name of O.J.'s oldest son) started the games as a way of selecting men to join him aboard the ship Argo to search for the magical golden fleece of a ram. Hercules, an Athenian, was one of them. In Edith Hamilton's Mythology, you see a pen and ink drawing of Hercules holding the three-headed dog Cerberus aloft. Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin are the only non-Presidents on U.S. currency. Pen and ink drawings are bell-ringers for Fuhrman (sign posts for us), which relate directly to the coins on Bundy and Fuhrman's money, glory and political influence motives for murder. The pilot episode of Hunter (1984-1991) shows you the movie link between the coins, the keys, the former NFL star-turned actor/producer and the ram with actor/producer Fred Dryer and actor Brian Dennehy. Dryer was a standout defensive end with the Los Angels Rams. In the Hunter series, Dryer is L.A.P.D. Detective Rick Hunter. His partner Dee-Dee is Stephanie Kramer. Fuhrman met with Dryer's representative in 1994 shortly after the Bundy murders while Dryer's production company was gearing up for The Return of Hunter, which debuted during O.J.'s 1995 criminal trial. The coins on Bundy give you the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Lincoln foresaw his death in a dream were he looked down upon his body in a coffin. In his time, bodies in coffins were displayed with pennies on the eyelids as weights to keep them closed. Early in the 20th century, dimes on the eyelids replaced pennies. The discrepancy in the number of coins (one of each making 11 cents and two of each making 22 cents) gives you the month and day of John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was killed while riding in a Lincoln limo. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were succeed by men named Johnson. Franklin
D. Roosevelt's profile appears on the front of the dime.
Roosevelt Grier, a longtime friend of O.J. and a former member of
George Bush Sr. was Ronald Regan's Vice President during the '84 Olympics, the President who succeeded Reagan and preceded William Jefferson Clinton. O.J. played golf with Clinton only weeks before the Bundy murders U.S. Presidents in general as well as U.S. currency in general are thus woven inextricably into the tale of the coins on Bundy. The penny and the five dollar bill both feature Abraham Lincoln on the front and the Lincoln Memorial on the back. You can't get that front and back crossover to bills with any coin other than the penny. O.J.'s association with the Buffalo Bills makes the crossover unique to him when you factor in his association with Bill Clinton. You can't get it with a quarter (the back was not the same as on the coin) and you can't get it with a nickel because Jefferson, who appears on the nickel, does not appear on a bill. The only way a nickel could work in theory is if it were a buffalo nickel. It could not work in practice because it is too rare to have fallen from anyone's pocket, because any nickel is too close to "Nicole" and because the buffalo is too obviously related to O.J. to look like anything other than a plant. Any American over 40 in 1994 would have remembered the buffalo nickel. On the plus side of leaving out the nickel, you get it anyway in automatic associations with coins that equal a dime. The base numbers for all U.S. currency are 1 and 5. anyone in the United States who can count to 10 and add 5 + 5 knows that 10 pennies, 5 pennies and a nickel or 2 nickels equal a dime. The word "dime" comes from a French word meaning "tenth part." The fact that "dime" rhymes with "time" is significant only to Mark James Fuhrman. Games rhymes with James. Fuhrman associated himself with many games; card games, scrabble, baseball, football, basketball, croquet, darts, billiards and, of course, the Olympic Games. He named George Forman, the boxing heavyweight Gold Medal winner in the 1968 Olympic Games, as his number one athlete. In a photo taken shortly after the Bundy Murders, Fuhrman stands on the Ashford side of O.J.'s Rockingham estate by a, "SAY it ain't so, JOE." sign. This is an allusion to Joe Jackson of the Chicago White Sox who admitted accepting money from crooked gamblers to throw the 1919 Word Series. The upper case letters in "SAY" are from a trademark expression of Baseball Hall of Fame member Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants (formerly the New York Giants). He was well known for his bat but best known for his glove. Mays mentored O.J. in his youth. He was also known as "the Say Hey Kid" because of his habit of getting the attention of people by starting with "Say hey." At the time of the Bundy murders two American Presidents were named George, Washington and Bush. Two where named Jefferson, Thomas and Clinton and two were named William, Taft and Clinton. There were two Franklins, Pierce and Roosevelt and two Roosevelts, Teddy and Franklin. O.J. Simpson's middle name, James, is the same as Mark Fuhrman's middle name and the first name of six Presidents: Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan, Garfield and Carter. Garfield died in office. Polk and Buchanan preceded Presidents who died in office (Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln). The "S" in Ulysses S. Grant stands for Simpson. The coins linking all of these names to O.J. were found behind Nicole's back gate. The most common Presidential name after James is John. There were four of them. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler and John F. Kennedy. The name "Adam" is written on the "Mothers" poem on Bundy next to Nicole's front gate. In the 1915 movie Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffiths quotes President Woodrow Wilson extensively from his writings on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Klan (as heroes) under the Reconstruction policies of Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans who impeached him. In the 1977 movie A Killing Affair, O.J. Simpson is a Los Angeles police officer named Woodrow. In Cocaine and Blue Eyes ('83) he is a private investigator who gets a $1,000 bill in the mail. He say's "Grover Cleveland's picture is on the $1,000 bill." In the 1981 movie Goldie and The Boxer Go to Hollywood, O.J. Simpson is Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Gallagher who suffers kidney damage in the ring of a movie set from a stunt double of the actor he is only pretending to fight. The stunt double is a ringer that crooked gamblers brought into the film to to do permanent damage to Joe's image and to force him to throw a title fight. He seeks out a doctor who doesn't know who he is and receives prescription pain medication posing as a "bronco buster" named Joe Franklin. The doctor tells him, "You have to hang up your spurs." Rafer Johnson wears spurs as a "buffalo soldier" of the 10th Cavalry Regiment in the John Ford Western classic Sergeant Rutledge. The 10th Cavalry fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt's Roughriders in Cuba during the Spanish American War.
Rafer Johnson as Cpl. Krump in Sergeant Rutledge (1960 -- the year he won Olympic gold)
O.J. Simpson posing as a bronco buster named Joe Franklin in Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood
The tale of two coins doesn't end there. The more you dig into it the more unexpected connections you find to O.J. Simpson, the name Franklin and the confusion about the number of dimes and pennies found and photographed on Bundy. The question is whether the dime was moved or two dimes and two pennies were photographed independently by Rokahr with Fuhrman and by Fung with Lange then cropped to make it appear that there was only one dime and one penny on the scene. The individual coins were photographed too far away and with such poor resolution that it is impossible to see details that could distinguish them as the same set of coins in different positions or two different sets. The prosecution claimed that one dime and one penny were booked into evidence. However, Det. Lange's report indicates two dimes and two pennies. Contrary to established evidence identification and collection procedures, neither the number of coins nor their denominations were marked on the evidence envelope they came out of. It is therefore impossible to know from an unbroken chain of evidence how many coins actually went into the envelope.
The alignment of photos along the tire track on the right of the coins in both photos suggests that photos taken by Rokahr and Fung at different times showed four coins, much as they appear in the defense exhibit but with the two sets of coins closer together. It suggests that police and prosecutors were dismayed to find two coins in an unmarked envelope that should have been marked and both Rokahr's photos and Fung's were cropped to make it appear that only two coins were photographed in different positions. This scenario explains why Lange's report of two dimes and two pennies conflicts with the photos and why he did not check any of the tire tracks to see if they matched the tires on O.J.'s Bronco. The more attention paid to tire tracks the more likely it was for the defense to discover that two coins, like one lens of Juditha Brown's glasses came up missing in the lab.
Most dimes in circulation in 1994 came from the U.S. government's Philadelphia Mint, although some were minted in Denver and San Francisco. The privately owned Franklin Mint issued a Challenger medallion as part of its Space series of coins commemorating the maiden flight of all shuttles in the NASA fleet. The Challenger's maiden flight was on April 4, 1983. Judith Resnick, who died three years later in the Challenger explosion, was born on April 5. Adding 1 (the penny) to to the day on the the medallion gives you the day Judith Resnick was born. Adding 10 (the dime) to the day on the Franklin Challenger medallion gives you April 14, the day Abraham Lincoln was shot. Adding ten (the dime) to Resnick's birthday or putting 1 (the penny) in front of the 5 gives you April 15, the day Lincoln died.
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger. From left to right: Ellison Onizuka, Mike Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judy Resnick. Judith Resnick joined NASA in 1978 and took her first trip into space with an astronaut named Charlie Walker in 1984. Although low ranking engineers warned their superiors of a fatal flaw in the boosters carrying the Challenger, NASA officials took the risk to go ahead with the launch to coincide with a political speech by President Reagan.
The Navy ship that Fuhrman served on in the Marines was the recovery ship for the 3 Apollo 14 astronauts returning from the moon. On page 91 of Mark Fuhrman's Murder in Spokane he writes, "While I was in the LAPD I had been involved in two serial killer task force, the Hillside Strangler and the Night Stalker. Further down the page he says of the Hillside Strangler case, "It was almost as if, in the wake of San Francisco's Zodiac Killer, Seattle's Ted Bundy, and New York's Son of Sam, the Los Angeles media wanted its own serial killer..." The word Zodiac is from a Greek word meaning "circle of little animals. The tenth sign of the Zodiac is Capricorn, the goat (as in the Cashmere lining of the bloody gloves on Bundy and Rockingham). In Capricorn One (1978) O.J. Simpson is Navy Commander John Walker. Denise Nicholas is his screen wife Elizabeth. She played a teacher in the TV series Room 222 with Karen Valentine. Walker is one of three astronauts on a mission to Mars. The others are Lt. Col. Peter Willis and Col. Charles Brubaker. Five minutes before launch the astronauts are pulled out of the Capricorn One space capsule and flown to a secret desert base in Texas. There, NASA's Manned Space Director James Kelloway tells them that the President would have canceled the entire manned space program if anything went wrong with the launch. Something did go wrong. Technicians discovered, too late, that the life support system would have killed the astronauts three weeks into space. Kelloway coerces the astronauts to go along with a staged Mars landing. He tells them that when they are due to splash down on Earth they will be flow to the capsule where a Navy recovery ship will pick them up. When it is time for Capricorn One to return to Earth, Kelloway fakes a reentry explosion. By then, the astronauts figured out what was in store for them. Brubaker uses the edge of a gold-colored St. Charles medallion he wears around his neck on a chin to help the astronauts escaped to the desert. Walker and Willis are found by assassins who were hunting them in helicopters. When Walker (O.J.) sees the helicopters he mistakes them for birds. Brubaker survives by evading the helicopters, killing and eating a rattlesnake and finding a recently abandoned service station in the desert with water in a tire trough. He needs change to call home and breaks into a Coke-Cola vending machine to get it. The quarters he gets out of the machine are enough to buy one bottle of coke. The bell-ringer with Fuhrman (his alibi in which he said he purchased "gas and a soft drink" at a gas station in the desert) is the message on the machine that says, "Coke-Cola in Bottles." When Fuhrman was a kid, the deposit on a Coke bottle was two cents. In 1978 it was ten cents. Lee Harvey Oswald was last seen in the Texas Bookstore Depository standing by a Coke machine drinking from a bottle of Coke. The In an obscure reference to Lincoln's 1837 law practice you will find this item: "Notice of a bill for an act to authorize Rhoda Hart and others to sell and convey certain real estate." This is about money. The controversy of the coins give you the month and day of John F. Kennedy's assassination but it also loops back to the year of Lincoln's Rhoda Hart notice. All it takes is transposing the 3 and the 8 in 1837 and adding a decimal point to get 13.87 . On page 98 of A Simple Act Of Murder: November 22, 1963 Fuhrman writes, "Where was Oswald going when he left the North Beckley boardinghouse with a revolver and $13.87 in cash?" You already have the "Hart" in Laura Hart the screenwriter and Adam Hart the character in a screenplay. There is also a Rhoda connection to a child's heart in one movie, The Bad Seed (1956) by John Lee Mahin about an 8-year-old serial killer The heart is a locket that Rhoda gets as a gift from a woman she plans to murder for a pet bird that the woman promised to give her when she died.. She wears the heart as she conceives and carries out an ingenious plan to murder a man who she believes is a threat. While her mother is in the kitchen unpacking groceries Rhoda hears an ice cream truck bell and seizes her opportunity to strike. She asks her mother if she can have a popsicle (a dime). Her mother tells her to get the money out of her purse. Rhoda goes into the purse and gets a quarter. Her real objective is to create an excuse to pick up stick matches near the purse as murder weapons. She lets her mother see her picking up all nine or ten of them with her right hand knowing that she will be told to put them back when she explains that she wanted them for a harmless game all little girls play. She makes a show of putting them back. But as she leaves the house you see that the matches she intended to use all along are in her left hand. Just think what a mind like that could do in the body of an ambitious 42-year-old homicide detective in West LA... --Jasper
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with a "D" or or an "S"
below the date to show where they were minted. D is for Denver. S is
for San Francisco. The NFL's Denver Broncos began in the AFL with
O.J.'s first professional football team, the Buffalo Bills. 
the
Los Angeles Rams, helped to wrestle the .22 pistol
away from Robert Kennedy's assassin along with Rafer Johnson, George
Plimpton and Michael Viner. Robert Kennedy was challenging Lyndon
Johnson for the Democratic Presidential nomination when he was shot
to death in Los Angeles. Rafer Johnson was traveling with Kennedy as
a bodyguard. Viner was later to become the Dove Press
publisher of Faye Resnick's book, A Private Diary of a Life
Interrupted. The book went on sale during the jury selection
process in O.J.'s murder trial. It describes O.J. as a cruel,
violent stalker. Faye Resnick said that she and Nicole caught him
hiding in bushes to spy on Nicole so many times that they dubbed
this stalking behavior, "the Bush syndrome." 
tale of the coins on the rear of Bundy are saturated with movie
links to the Fuhrman