From: Jasper
Date: 10/26/00
Time: 8:54:27 PM
John,
I never wanted to look at Fuhrman as a suspect just because he was Vietnam vet and because of the image of Vietnam vets as racist murderers that I have been fighting for thirty years. Another reason it took me so long to consider Fuhrman as a POSSIBLE suspect is because of the obvious nature of the planted glove. The only reason I had him on the list in the first place was the same reason I had O.J., Shipp, Kardashian, Kato, Colombian drug thugs, CIA assassins, etc. on the list. There was some striking evidence that pointed to them.
Fuhrman was one of the first I scratched off the list because I thought that his racist baggage would make him too much of a target of an investigation for him to ever think of doing the killing. After seeing his performance on the stand, his ability to anticipate how most people would react to his testimony, and the resistance of everyone to investigate him as a murder suspect, I put him back on the list. He anticipated how the vast majority of Americans, including a large percentage of blacks and Jews would regard his Nazi views as "ancient history" or a just a smokescreen to cover O.J.'s obvious guilt.
I had to take Fuhrman off the list again when I thought he had an airtight alibi. When something else came up that forced me to put him on the list of possible suspects again (not a suspect but someone I was willing to look at as a suspect) I was stopped cold by the obvious plant of the Rockingham glove. My reasoning was identical to yours. Then I noticed something about the pictures of socks (obviously planted) and the angle that O.J. parked his Bronco (obviously not extreme). Again and again I saw the same pattern and two men connected with all of it; the killer and Mark Fuhrman. When I noticed how O.J.'s detractors reacted to the same evidence that was so obviously artificial to you and me (the thumps, the glove, the socks, etc.) I saw just how clever it was to plant them that way. Everything you said about how the scene should have looked to make it appear that O.J. dropped the glove, is true. But all it takes to see that is common sense. Something more than common sense had to be at work with the planting of the glove for seventy percent of the population to see nothing wrong with it and many more to conclude by its very crudeness that someone as smart and knowledgeable as Fuhrman would not have done it. How smart would he have been to plant it in a way that you would expect a smart and knowledgeable cop like him to plant it?
Ordinarily I would agree with you on the diminishing size of blood drops dripping from the tip of the knife (although you are mistaken about the distance of a three to six-inch blade from the ground held by a six-footer). The difference in the blood flow issue here is the second bloody glove. Gates were opened and closed by a killer who was supposed to be missing a glove on his left hand. A right-handed person usually shifts object to his left hand when he knows he is going to be doing something that requires a relatively greater amount of strength or dexterity. If there was no bloodstain on the middle gate where the killer had to open it and only a "possible" fingerprint on the back gate's lock, where was the right-hand glove? It couldn't have been on his right hand. It could have been in his pocket or under his arm - or in his left hand. A glove saturated in blood and held in the hand of an excited man could easily produce a fresh supply of blood with each squeeze from the front yard of Nicole's condo to the alley. Fuhrman knew that one glove was missing. He had every reason to speculate that the blood drops came from the other glove, not from the killer's body.
As far as the placement of the blood drops are concerned, the only one that matters is the one that could be photographed in close proximity to the left shoe if the purpose is to plant the IDEA that the killer was bleeding from his left side. You could put the rest of the blood drops wherever you want and argue that the killer scratched his thigh, turned his body to look back or turned completely around and looked back when the shoeprints faded away and he was fumbling with his keys at the back gate. --Jasper