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From: Jasper
Date: 6/20/01
Time: 8:34:59 PM
Kari and Miss Marple,
Kari, I thank you again for some terrific insights and the cogent way you presented them. I tried but I couldn't do it. Miss Marple, when a reasonable person has a reasonable reservation it can't be ignored.
The fact is, I had A LOT of trouble with casting Denise in the plot to kill her sister - just because she was her sister. I even said so in Iago. That was something completely outside of my realm of experience, except for Sunday school lessons about Cain and Able.
The problem I had to resolve was a scenario (one of many) that I thought was too intricate and extreme to be true. It had too many blanks to fill in for one person who could have done a lot of different things at all the right times to help account for crucial bits of evidence. It had to be someone who could be tied to the KIND of shoes O.J. wore to the recital and the particular shoes the killer chose to wear to the killing. It had to be someone the killer didn't completely trust who could set up the story about the glasses that convinced nearly everyone that Goldman was either THE target of a drug hit or victim of bad timing. I had to be someone who could point the finger of guilt at O.J. with authority from the outset, before the detectives had a chance to consider the possibility that it could have been someone else. And it had to be someone who could pass for Nicole to convince Fuhrman's friends and acquaintances that he was having an affair with Nicole. One name filled all of those blanks - Denise Brown.
The real key is in the spouse abuse stores told by her, Faye and Fuhrman and the photos that she said she took of Nicole's beaten face after the '89 incident. The latest those photos could have been taken was 1979. Then there was the incident where she was stopped for drunk driving in January of '94, around the time Nicole moved from Gretna Green. The only way my scenario could work is if she knew Ron Shipp and Faye Resnick well. She had to admit that she knew Shipp but she denied knowing Faye, even though she said she stayed overnight when Faye and Nicole were living together. Why did she lie? And when the question was put to her about whether her passengers were Shipp and Faye when she was stopped for drunk driving her attorney told her not to answer? Why was no answer better than a simple "no"?
There is more, of course, but those are the basics. --Jasper