Trains, Clocks and Guns

While researching my first two Smoking Gun books, I found trains, train tracks or train stations frequently imbedded in movies and TV shows that the evidence in the Bundy murder case together with Mark Fuhrman’s stories and pictures led me to. This was before he produced his own movie, Murder in Greenwich, which shows his character at the Greenwich, Connecticut train station three times. You see him meeting and conferring with his writing partner Stephen Weeks at the train station. You see Fuhrman’s character greeting forensic pathologist Michael Badin at the train station. After they confer on Martha Moxley's autopsy, you see Baden’s character getting on the train with a parting remark that changes the victim’s presumed time of death.

Time travel is another recurring theme with Fuhrman and the movies. It begins with Nicole’s watch face down on her concrete walkway in the long shot photo of Fuhrman on the Bundy murder scene pointing to the bloody glove. The Swiss Army watch she wore was stopped at 10:03, making it appear that she fell on the watch when she was killed by the “Juice” at 10:03. However, other evidence and testimony in the case places her time of death somewhere between 10:10 and 10:30, between 10:30 and 10:45, and sometime after 11:00. On page 182 of Murder in Brentwood, Fuhrman argues, “When you are building a timeline for a murder, you have to remain flexible....” Only through time travel is more than on time of death possible. In  Murder in Greenwich, Fuhrman travels 22 years back in time from 1997 to 1975 to crouch over the body of Martha Moxley.

Fuhrman calls O.J. “Juice” in his first book, a nickname he got as a football player signifying his electrifying style of running. His front line in Buffalo was called the Electric Company because it “cut loose the Juice.” All of this goes back and forth in time with key dates and imagery from the Bundy murder scene to the Palace Station and the 10/03 date of O.J. and C.J.'s conviction on 12 felony counts each. Back to the Future III (1990) combines time travel, a train station, and a clock in a courthouse tower stopped by a lighting strike at 10:04. It begins with an onscreen message setting the date and time for the ensuing events

Michal J. Fox as Marty McFly goes back to 1885 to save Doc Brown from a killer who poses with a gun held to his chest in a mirror image of how Michel McClinton said in Judge Glass’ courtroom that he held his gun in the Palace Station.

Michael McClinton's .45 caliber Ruger P345 and his .22 caliber Beretta take you to Mark Fuhrman's number 3 sports hero Larry Bird, to a "burning bird" in his movie and the 9 mm Beretta on his side in his Bundy murder scene pointing finger photo. In between you get a Nazi bird with a sword and a hammer, Robert Blake as plain clothes Detective Tony Baretta, his pet cockatoo named Fred and Michael D. Roberts as Baretta's favorite street informant -- a pimp named Rooster.

        Larry Bird                          Hitler Youth Regimental Flag                 "Burning bird" (logo) in Murder in Greenwich

         Det. Baretta and Fred the cockatoo                              The gun in Det. Fuhrman's holster is a Beretta                               

                                     Cockatoo in flight                                           Rooster the pimp, Baretta's favorite informant

Baretta

 January 17, 1975 - May 18, 1978        
ABC Police Drama - 80 Episodes

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