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From: Jasper
Date: 9/26/00
Time: 4:25:24 PM
John,
Go to the HTML version of Iago Chapter 31: O.J.'s Alibi, where I know you can see the pictures if you give them enough time to load. There, all of your objections about the Rockingham observer should be answered in full.
There was no need for the observer to leave his car on Rockingham to see and hear everything he needed to see an hear if he knew O.J.'s schedule for the evening and Rosa Lopez's routine for taking the dog out to relieve herself. All he had to do was hang back a block until he saw Rosa and the dog then move his car to a spot just south of O.J.'s driveway. As long as O.J. used a cordless or cellular phone and the Bronco didn't move he would know what kind of false timeline could be created to give O.J. the appearance of not having an alibi. Rosa saw no cars on the street but the Bronco when she took the dog out at 10:00, but Park had to look around a car parked on his left when exited the Rockingham gate to take O.J. to the airport at 11:10 or 11:15. The car did not belong to Rosa. There was no one across the street that it could have belonged to (that's what my watcher theory depended on, though I didn't have that information) an no reason for anyone in the block North of Rockingham to have parked it there.
The car was never identified.
If there was a Rockingham observer he would have followed the Bronco wherever it was parked. O.J. normally parked his Bronco on Ashford. As you noted, John, that would have been a great place to observe O.J.'s movements (watching the Bronco and listening for his voice). If the killer was neither O.J. nor Kato, both of whom did things that night that no one could have anticipated, he would have had to make adjustments to the unpredictable things they did.
According to Phil Vannatter in Evidence Dismissed, someone unscrewed the interior light bulb in the Bronco and put it under the seat. Vannatter noted that it was a common practice with police officers on surveillance to make sure the light didn't come on by accident when they opened the door. He said that O.J. had recently worked in a movie where he played a cop on surveillance so that was something he would know. Most people would simply turn the light off. The idea was to show how O.J. could have been absent when Park arrived and how he might have sneaked in without Park seeing him. But you know what Occam's Razor says about that explanation. By the time you finish adding on explanations to fill the holes in that scenario, the story becomes so complicated that the probability of it being valid becomes remote.
All of those difficulties vanish with a trained observer like Ron Shipp parked where Allan Park saw the car when he left with O.J. for LAX and a plan that called for the limo driver seeing the Bronco when he got there. How the hell did he miss it? He just wasn't paying attention.
The question of where, exactly, and how to plant the gloves couldn't have been decided in advance because the answer depended on what the person doing the planting knew about O.J.'s cut finger and Kato's visit to the south passageway. From Rockingham, the observer could have seen Kato crossing the yard and going behind the garage to the south path. There were lights on that garage and on the big tree between the garage and the main entrance to the house. They gave off enough light for O.J. to hit golf balls by. Even if those lights had been turned off, Kato's flashlight (wimpy or not) would have made him easy too see. But the observer had no way of seeing how far back Kato went when he opened the first gate--the one attached to the tree that he had to lift. Not until Fuhrman talked to Kato would it have been safe to plant the glove.
There is a scenario that fits the location of the glove as a logical place for O.J. to have left it. But it works best with both gloves, which fits a frame-up scenario - a frame-up that did not anticipate O.J. cutting his finger, the limo driver not seeing the Bronco or Kato checking out the thumps. If the killer intended for Ron and Nicole to look like they were attacked shortly after 10 o'clock instead of 10:30, everything makes sense. 10:03, when Nicole's watch was stopped, gives O.J. enough time to complete the kills, come home and get cleaned up before the limo driver arrived. The spider webs a few feet from the gloves suggested that this was a place rarely visited by anyone where O.J. figured he could hide the glove until he got back from Chicago and he could figure out a better way to get rid of it. Neither you nor I would try to sell a story like that but there is one guy wrote a whole book full of stories just like that. His name is Mark Fuhrman. --Jasper